Democrats tears into 'vile' and 'grotesque' Trump for blaming the plane crash on DEI

Democrats unleashed connected President Donald Trump connected Thursday aft helium blamed diverseness and inclusion policies and criticized his predecessors pursuing the deadly level crash.

During his property league connected Thursday astatine the White House, the 78-year-old claimed helium enactment 'safety' archetypal portion Presidents Biden and Obama prioritized authorities successful a jaw-dropping governmental attack. 

Trump's remarks came conscionable hours aft an American Airline level collided with a subject chopper midair Wednesday evening adjacent Reagan International Airport. 67 radical were killed.

Democrats connected Thursday day were enraged by his effect which near nary survivors successful what is the deadliest aviation catastrophe successful the U.S. successful decades.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer responded connected Capitol Hill conscionable moments aft helium watched the president's quality conference.

'It’s 1 happening for net pundits to spew up conspiracy theories. It’s different for the President of the United States of America to propulsion retired idle speculation arsenic bodies are inactive being recovered and families are inactive being notified,' Schumer said.

'It conscionable turns your stomach,' helium added.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen said helium was 'outraged' watching the president's response.

'It was conscionable grotesque the mode helium instantly politicized this unspeakable tragedy,' helium said. 

'I deliberation helium owes the American radical an apology,' Van Hollen said. 

'He was instantly pointing fingers and erstwhile helium was asked by the property what the ground of his claims were, helium admitted that helium didn't person any,' the legislator noted. 

During his remarks, Trump besides went aft erstwhile Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who served nether Biden. 

'He was a catastrophe arsenic a Mayor. He ran his metropolis into the crushed and he's a catastrophe now. He's conscionable got a bully enactment of bulls***', Trump said of Buttigieg.

Buttigieg, whose successor was sworn into bureau conscionable hours earlier the collision, responded connected X.

'Despicable,' helium wrote. 'As families grieve, Trump should beryllium leading, not lying. We enactment information first, drove down adjacent calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercialized hose clang fatalities retired of millions of flights connected our watch.' 

Buttigieg went connected that Trump 'now oversees the subject and the FAA.'

'One of his archetypal acts was to occurrence and suspend immoderate of the cardinal unit who helped support our skies safe. Time for the President to amusement existent enactment and explicate what helium volition bash to forestall this from happening again,' helium continued.

Senator Tim Kaine who represents Virginia called Trump blaming DEI policies 'stomach-churning' and 'outrageous' and noted Trump had to admit helium did not person grounds to enactment his claim.

'Can you ideate a much damaging happening to perceive if you're suffering already than a president trying to marque governmental hay retired of thing similar this?' Kaine said successful an interrogation connected CNN.

'They were inactive searching for bodies successful the Potomac erstwhile helium was moving disconnected astatine the rima astir this,' Kaine said.  

Kaine told reporters connected Thursday that helium expects determination were victims successful the clang from his authorities arsenic the American Airlines pitchy was headed to Reagan. 

He would not speculate connected the collision and said they would get answers from the NTSB, but helium expressed that helium had been acrophobic astir the analyzable airspace. 

Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett went aft Trump successful a blistering station connected X pursuing his remarks. 

'This is genuinely similar a existent beingness atrocious occurrence of the Apprentice, but honestly, He is the archetypal 1 who should beryllium fired,' she wrote. 

'It is wide that helium has nary thought of however to bash the occupation of President, competently,' she continued.

'I expect that his full tenure volition spell thing similar this, erstwhile things spell bad… Biden, Biden, Biden, Obama, Biden, DEI, DEI, DEI, trans, immigrant, repeat,' Crockett wrote.

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, who is simply a erstwhile Black Hawk chopper pilot, besides responded online. 

'There are inactive bodies being pulled from the Potomac River. Families are grieving the nonaccomplishment of loved ones,' she wrote connected X.

'Yet Donald Trump is baselessly blaming "DEI" for past night's tragic collision. Absolutely shameful. We request the facts, not partisan politics,' she said. 

Duckworth is the ranking subordinate of the Aviation Safety Subcommittee of the Senate Committee connected Commerce, Science & Transportation and volition beryllium progressive successful the probe of what happened.