Quotes
On DEI and the claim that you’ve made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring? And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?” ... It just could have been.”
A reporter asked ... Trump replied How you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash?” ... Because I have common sense, OK? And, unfortunately, a lot of people don’t.”
I think safety is in the public interest, and that’s our primary focus,
Whitaker testified to the House transportation committee He’s just got a good line of bullshit, ... and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity. So I had to say that it’s terrible.”
The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes – or pretends to believe – that everything and everybody are humbugs.”
But, ... as PT Barnum, the original expert on the subject of humbuggery and suckers, wrote Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew air traffic control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA.”
Buttigieg fired back at once One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the president to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.”
I was having the greatest year of my business career, and I was sitting having breakfast thinking of how well things were going for me.”
Mounting the pulpit at New York’s Marble Collegiate church to deliver the main eulogy, Trump began We want brilliant people doing this.”
Buttigieg was “bullshit”, while Trump said, self-referentially Why should we give him medical coverage?”
Because I have common sense, OK?"
Trump replied when asked how he had reached the conclusion that programs to counter racism and sexism had played a role I understand some people have associated me with the crash in D.C., and that is false,
Jo Ellis, a Black Hawk pilot with the Virginia Army National Guard, said in the Facebook video I don’t really want to have to deal with all of the headlines and everything going on about my service,
A military helicopter crash involving a transgender pilot named Jo Ellis has sparked significant discussion on X, particularly after the incident where the helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight, resulting in 66 fatalities,
Grok's summary stated if X users searched Ellis' name, according to screenshots by multiple X users Every previous president in reacting to such events, such tragedies, has always begun with sympathy including the only president who could have been blamed for an accidental plane crash and wasn’t,
he declared before playing a 1982 clip of Reagan remarking on Lenny Skutnik, a bystander to the Air Florida crash Lenny Skutnik was the worst thing you can be in Donald Trump’s Washington,
said O’Donnell of the federal worker who became “an American hero” and served the government for decades before his retirement in 2010. There’s nothing about Lenny Skutnik — not his humility, not his heroism, nothing about him that Donald Trump could ever understand.”
O’Donnell weighed in on Skutnik’s quote I separate it into two parts,
It is the first time in history that a president in the United States has assigned blame for an aviation accident on his own, immediately, based entirely on his own profoundly, ignorant, prejudiced guess,
said O’Donnell of Trump, who blamed diversity, equity and inclusion efforts for the midair collision But on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there.”
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