Pretty obvious that President Trump entirely agrees with my empirical observations, planting the blame firmly on substandard personnel in the FAA/ATC and tied directly to DEI bullshit.
the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
Trump also had heavy criticism for Biden and former President Barack Obama, saying Obama’s standards for the FAA were “very mediocre” before he assumed office in 2017.
“I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary,” Trump said, adding:
You remember that. Only the highest aptitude–they have to be the highest intellect and psychologically superior people–were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. That was not so prior to getting there. When I arrived in 2016 I made that change very early on because I always felt this was a job that, and other jobs too, but this was a job that had to be superior intelligence.
Trump then blasted Biden for bringing standards to what he says is a record low.
“And then when I left office and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before,” he added.
On his second day in office, Trump took executive action directing Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and now-acting FAA Commissioner Christopher Rocheleau—whose appointment he announced at the briefing—to return to “merit-based hiring” for all positions, including air traffic controllers.
“All so-called DEI initiatives, including all dangerous preferencing policies or practices, shall immediately be rescinded in favor of hiring, promoting, and otherwise treating employees on the basis of individual capability, competence, achievement, and dedication,” the memo reads in part.
excerpt from: http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/30/trump-calls-out-pete-buttigiegs-bullsht-biden-era-dei-after-american-airlines-black-hawk-crash/
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