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Wait, What? Trump Blames DEI for DC Plane Crash

Jan 30, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -37% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : During the press conference, Trump defended Duffy saying "Our new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy -- his second day on the job when that happened.
36% : "He [Trump] always sounds like the kid doing a book report that didn't read the book and just bsing through it," @NateKosak wrote.
34% : Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett tweeted "While emergency responders are still recovering peoples' loved ones from the freezing water, Trump is using these families' pain for POLITICS by blaming their deaths on DEI.
30% : And because of it, Trump claimed DEI caused a lowering of standards for FAA employees, leading to last night's crash.
19% : User @esjesjesj noted how Trump has already banned DEI in the government.
18% : " Others on X responded to Trump blaming DEI in confusion.
18% : "Trump and Elon have been gutting the FAA and have already said they ended DEI but now that they caused a plane crash they're back to blaming black and gay people," they wrote.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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