Pretty gross of Trump to start banging on about hiring practices in the immediate aftermath of the aviation disaster. So inappropriate
Not just inappropriate, after all he has “inappropriate” down to a science, lol. It’s also kinda stupid, also a trait often associated with the man. What he did not realize is that he initiated the DEI hiring practice changes himself. It began during HIS first term, lol. Political Jazz Fan posted about Trump nailing the FAA and DEI, thinking no doubt that it would stop the immediate criticism of Trump and show him in the best light. That Democrat’s criticism of him was inappropriate. But Political Jazz Fan did not do his homework first:
All qualify for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway.”
— President Donald Trump, decrying what he called DEI standards imposed by previous administrations, Jan. 30
In the aftermath of the
deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport,
Trump held an extraordinary news conference during which he speculated on the cause of the accident. At length, he attacked former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for imposing what he called “a big push to put diversity” that he said weakened the Federal Aviation Administration.
Reading from
a 2024 Fox News report — which he incorrectly identified as being two weeks old — Trump listed conditions that he suggested disqualify people from being air traffic controllers: “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”
“Can you imagine?” he asked. “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress.” He suggested that it was wrong for anyone with those conditions to qualify “for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway.”
But here’s the rub: During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.
FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency
announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”
The link under “targeted disabilities” is now dead, but the Wayback Machine retains links from
June 2017 and
January 2021 that show the page was unchanged during Trump’s tenure. The list included:
- Hearing (total deafness in both ears)
- Vision (Blind)
- Missing Extremities
- Partial Paralysis
- Complete Paralysis, Epilepsy
- Severe intellectual disability
- Psychiatric disability
- Dwarfism
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Here’s Trump unknowingly blaming himself, lol. Which one of our Trump apologists thought was a gotcha for Trump’s opponents.
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