Trump's Plane Crash Press Conference Was Unbelievably Vile, Even for Him

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : Duffy praised Trump for his exemplary leadership, and then assured the American public that "what happened yesterday shouldn't have happened," a sentiment most Americans probably didn't need explained to them.
65% : Hegseth's turn at the lectern also featured praise of Trump, but had a little more substance.
55% : After reading several Fox News headlines, Trump showed off the integrated nature of his new administration by handing the microphone to two separate members of his Fox News Cabinet, recently confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
53% : (In fact, after Duffy's inspired comments, Trump made sure to mention that Democrats had voted for his confirmation.)
49% : "How could diversity have something to do with this crash?" asked one of the journalists in the press pool, after Trump returned to the podium.
47% : The public address was full of political invective.
41% : Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first," Trump said.
41% : Being accused of thin political opportunism is not a concern Trump has ever abided by, and that attitude is core to his political success.
40% : "From there, Trump pivoted to the next culprit: DEI.
28% : Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went for a gentle tsking, tweeting that "President Trump's news conference on the heartbreaking, horrific accident at DCA" was full of conspiracy theories that "[turn] your stomach."And outlandish as Republican talking points -- and politicization of this tragedy -- seem, the difference in message discipline and opportunism between Trump and his Democratic opponents is perhaps the starkest thing of all.
28% : If Democrats are paying attention to Trump, or learning from him, they will use it as an opportunity to go on the offensive.
26% : Trump began by going after Joe Biden, accusing the former president of changing nebulous aviation safety and hiring standards "to lower than ever before.
25% : In his war with the administrative state and in his determination to gore federal spending, Trump had already fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee, all just 10 days before the crash.
23% : Getting out in front of those facts, Trump called for a moment of silence, and then immediately began to assail Democrats, before essentially concluding that diverse hiring initiatives ("DEI") were the real culprit to blame for this tragedy.
18% : Democratic leadership has been playing possum with Trump in the first weeks of his new administration, seemingly afraid of being accused of excessive politicization of his executive orders or Cabinet nominees.
17% : Not surprisingly, Trump entered Thursday's presser, his first public comments on the crash, raring to blame it on his enemies, real and imagined.
4% : ," Trump said, adding "He's just got a good line of bullshit" -- a surprisingly blunt insult even for Trump.

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