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   babbling like an imbecile.   
      
   Trump Responds to Washington Plane Crash With Racist, Ableist Diatribe   
   The president used the tragedy, which killed 67, to deliver a bigoted and   
   self-promoting tirade about DEI.   
      
       Julia Métraux   
      
      
      
      
   On Wednesday, an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into a commercial   
   American Airlines flight as it was in the process of landing at Ronald   
   Reagan International Airport in Washington, DC. Officials believe that   
   there were no survivors among the 67 people on both craft.   
      
   After tragedies like these, it’s typical for American presidents to address   
   the grieving public. What’s not typical of presidents is to blame issues   
   with, for example, the Federal Aviation Administration on disabled people   
   and people of color. Prior to diving into a bigoted speech at a next-day   
   press conference on the crash, Trump claimed to have “pretty good ideas of   
   what happened,” suggesting disabled people, people of color, Barack Obama,   
   and ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were to blame for the   
   tragedy.   
      
   In his speech, Trump rattled off a long list of the disabilities he said   
   the Biden FAA had allowed air traffic controllers to have—citing, among   
   others, dwarfism—poising hiring them as a negative move. There is nothing   
   to confirm the air traffic controllers, who attempted to intervene at least   
   twice prior to the crash, were even disabled. In addition, disabled people   
   are not hired if they cannot perform the duties of their job.   
      
   And he gave himself a pat on the back for his executive order ending   
   equitable hiring processes, issued last week, which claimed that the FAA   
   “specifically recruited and hired individuals with ‘severe intellectual’   
   disabilities, psychiatric issues, and complete paralysis.” Trump has a   
   history of attacking disabled people and of insulting his political   
   opponents by asserting that they are “mentally disabled.”   
      
   Trump then segued to blasting former Transportation Secretary Pete   
   Buttigieg, claiming that Buttigieg had run the FAA “right into the ground   
   with his diversity” during his time at the helm. It is unclear whether   
   Trump is referring to Buttigieg’s own sexuality, the FAA pushing for more   
   equitable hiring processes, or the ex-secretary’s groundbreaking rulemaking   
   and actions—which included taking steps to make airlines more accountable   
   for breaking disabled people’s wheelchairs.   
      
   It is also impossible to separate Trump’s attacks on intellect—he centered   
   his speech on a fixation with air traffic controllers as “naturally   
   talented geniuses”—from his previously expressed racist views, or from his   
   fixation on hiring processes in the FAA that tried to recruit more workers   
   of color.   
      
   This is allegedly the person, after all, who told his ex-fixer Michael   
   Cohen that “Black people are too stupid to vote for me.” He cast blame on   
   the FAA’s “diversity and inclusion hiring plan, which says diversity is   
   integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel—I   
   don’t think so. I don’t think so. I think it’s just the opposite.”   
      
   And even though Barack Obama has been out of office for more than eight   
   years, Trump—who boosted his political prominence by pushing racist birther   
   conspiracy theories against the former president—found time to attack him   
   for FAA hiring changes. “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre   
   at best,” he said. “I put safety first. Obama, Biden, and the Democrats put   
   policy first.”   
      
   “African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, we took care of everybody at levels   
   that nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump said in another bizarre segue. But   
   the FAA “determined that the workforce was too white,” he claimed. “Too   
   white—and, uh, we want the people that are competent. But now we mourn.”   
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