7 unhinged bombshell moments from Donald Trump's Potomac River air crash press conference

Donald Trump blamed a tragic level clang that killed 60 radical successful Washington DC connected diverseness hiring, disabled radical and Joe Biden successful a profoundly shocking property conference.

The President of the United States gave a lengthy property league successful the White House Briefing Room to springiness an update connected the investigation.

After concisely offering his sympathies to the families of those killed successful the crash, and confirming determination were nary survivors, helium pivoted to assigning blasted for the tragedy.

Last night, a subject Black Hawk chopper crashed into an American Airlines pitchy arsenic it was connected its last attack to Washington's Ronald Reagan Airport - conscionable a mile oregon truthful from the White House.

The collision caused some craft to plunge into the icy Potomac River.

But the President utilized astir of the property league to blasted the mishap connected his governmental opponents, and diverseness hiring programmes employed by the Federal Aviation Authority - which his White House cancelled past week.

Here are the astir bizarre and inappropriate things Donald Trump said successful the briefing.

1. He said the probe could instrumentality years, 'but we person immoderate beardown opinions'

"We bash not cognize what led to this crash, but we person immoderate precise beardown opinions," Trump said from the podium. "And I deliberation we'll astir apt authorities those opinions now.

"Because implicit the years I've watched arsenic things similar this hap and radical say, well, we're ever investigating, and 3 years aboriginal they denote it."

He went on: "Well, we deliberation we've got immoderate beauteous bully ideas."

2. His archetypal people was Joe Biden

Initially helium sought to blasted the catastrophe connected his biggest governmental force - Joe Biden, who defeated him successful the 2020 election.

"We indispensable person lone the highest standards for those who enactment successful our aviation system," helium said. "I changed the Obama standards from mediocre astatine champion to extraordinary. You person to beryllium the highest intellect and psychologically superior radical who are allowed to suffice for aerial postulation controllers.

"That was not truthful anterior to erstwhile I arrived successful 2016...and past erstwhile I near bureau and Biden took implicit helium changed them backmost to little than ever before. I enactment information first, and Biden, Obama and the Democrats enactment argumentation first."

We've been incapable to find immoderate grounds that President Trump raised hiring standards for aerial postulation controllers.

He did walk rather a batch of clip successful his archetypal word trying to privatise aerial postulation control, however.

3. He said the aerial clang "may have" been caused by "diversity hiring"

Trump went connected a agelong tirade astir diverseness hiring programmes - which question to prosecute qualified radical from a wide scope of backgrounds into organisations that had antecedently been heavy skewed towards achromatic men.

Last week helium signed an bid cancelling each Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes - and putting each authorities officers moving connected them connected paid leave.

His statement is that it volition marque hiring practices "colour blind" and bring backmost "common sense" to hiring.

And helium heavy suggested - astatine length, and without providing immoderate grounds - that the clang was caused by DEI programmes hiring radical to beryllium aerial postulation controllers who were not qualified for the "genius" level position.

"We person to person our smartest people," helium said. "It doesn't substance what they look like, however they speak. What matters is intellect. Talent. The connection talent. You person to beryllium people talented geniuses."

Asked by a newsman if helium was truly suggesting diverseness programmes origin the crash, Trump replied: "They conscionable whitethorn have."

4. His impervious was a Fox News nonfiction pushed by Elon Musk

Trump waved a insubstantial nonfiction successful the air, which claimed the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) had been hiring radical "with terrible intelligence and psychiatric disabilities."

The study helium was waving was produced by close helping web Fox News from earlier successful January - which was pushed heavy by Elon Musk.

While it is existent that the FAA ran a programme hiring radical "from arsenic galore sources arsenic possible", the argumentation had been successful spot since astatine slightest 2013, and existed done Trump's full archetypal tern.

In a connection erstwhile the nonfiction was archetypal published, the FAA intelligibly explained that each unit hired done the programme were "qualified" and worked successful a assortment of roles.

They said: "The FAA employs tens of thousands of radical for a wide scope of positions, from administrative roles to oversight and execution of captious information functions. Like galore ample employers, the bureau proactively seeks qualified candidates from arsenic galore sources arsenic possible, each of whom indispensable conscionable rigorous qualifications that of people volition alteration by position."

5. He went connected to people disabled radical with missing limbs and dwarfism

Trump work retired a leafage from the FAA website, which stated the authorities had identified immoderate disabilities for peculiar absorption including "hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, implicit paralysis, epilepsy, terrible intelligence disabilities, psychiatric disablement and dwarfism."

He said radical with the supra conditions "all suffice to beryllium controllers".

This is untrue.

The database helium work retired is from a US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report identifying underrepresented groups successful the authorities workforce. It was cross-government and has thing to bash with aerial postulation control.

6. Also, it mightiness person been nighttime imaginativeness goggles

Trump was asked astir reports the aviator of the chopper was wearing nighttime imaginativeness goggles.

He said helium didn't know, but helium gave his sentiment anyway.

"We don't know," helium said. "We're going to larn that beauteous soon. It whitethorn alteration the presumption level if you person the nighttime vision. So it's precise imaginable that could person happened. That would beryllium possibly a crushed wherefore you wouldn't spot arsenic good arsenic connected a wide nighttime you mightiness spot amended without it."

7. He lashed retired astatine a newsman questioning his behaviour

A newsman asked him: "We don't adjacent cognize the names of the 67 radical who were killed and you are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and aerial postulation controllers and seemingly the subordinate of the US Military who was flying that Black Hawk helicopter. Don't you deliberation you're getting up of the investigation?"

Trump replied: "No, I don't deliberation so."

The newsman asked again: "Does it comfortableness their families to perceive you blaming DEI?"

He said: "That's not a precise astute question."

Asked again however helium could travel to that conclusion, helium said: "Because I person communal sense."