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Trump and his administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance, also accused the Biden administration of turning away qualified air traffic control applicants “because of the color of their skin,” claiming the FAA felt that its “workforce was too white.” When pressed for evidence to back his claims that diversity caused the crash, Trump said “it just could have been” and that it was merely “common sense.”.
Immediately after President Donald Trump wrapped up a White House briefing in which he repeatedly and baselessly suggested the deadly midair crash over Washington, D.C., was the result of minorities hired through diversity initiatives, several Fox News hosts praised him for playing the role of “consoler-in-chief” to the nation.
Still, the immediate takeaway from Fox News hosts Harris Faulkner and Kayleigh McEnany was that the president solemnly honored the victims of the deadliest U.S. plane crash in nearly a quarter-century.
With all 67 passengers and crew of the American Airlines flight and Black Hawk helicopter that collided over Ronald Reagan National Airport feared dead, Trump pointed the finger at his Democratic predecessors and DEI policies during an unhinged press conference on Thursday.
“I want to start, Kayleigh, with something that the president said in about his third or fourth paragraph,” Faulkner noted, reading from Trump’s prepared remarks.
