President Donald Trump appeared to blame the Federal Aviation Administration’s diversity and inclusion efforts for Wednesday night’s tragic aircraft collision that left 67 people dead.
“The FAA diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities,” Trump said from the White House press room. “That is amazing.”
He said that people who work for air traffic control need to be “geniuses.” When reporters in the room pressed him on what evidence he has that DEI was to blame, Trump responded: “I have common sense, OK, and unfortunately, a lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this.”