Female NTSB head stuns the press with her unexpected response to Trump's claim DEI caused the crash

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifery Homendy stunned reporters aft being asked respective ways if President Donald Trump jumped the weapon by blaming the deadly D.C. clang connected 'DEI' and erstwhile administrations. 

Homendy led a property league on-site astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Thursday afternoon. 

Several of the reporters successful the assemblage asked her astir Trump's eyebrow-raising assertions that helium made lasting astatine the podium earlier Thursday successful the White House briefing room.  

'With each owed respect, I deliberation the property besides likes to authorities what probable origin is earlier we get to the probable cause,' Homendy said. 'So what I'm going to accidental is you request to springiness america time.' 

Just 10 days into his medication and Trump manned the podium Thursday greeting to respond to the deadly clang betwixt an American Airlines commuter pitchy and an Black Hawk chopper Wednesday night. 

The clang killed 67 radical - 60 passengers and 4 unit members connected the AA formation that was coming successful from Wichita, Kansas, and the 3 connected committee the subject helicopter. 

Trump's property briefing got disconnected to a solemn commencement - with a infinitesimal of soundlessness for the victims and different compassionate comments - but rapidly turned into a blasted game. 

'I changed the Obama standards to precise mediocre astatine champion to extraordinary,' the president said. 'Only the highest aptitude person to be, the highest intellect and psychologically superior radical were allowed to suffice for aerial postulation controllers. That was not truthful prior-to.' 

'And past erstwhile I near office, and Biden took over, helium changed them backmost to little than ever before,' Trump continued. 'I enactment information first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats enactment argumentation first.'

Trump went connected claiming that the 'FAA's diverseness push' included 'hiring radical with terrible intelligence and psychiatric disabilities.' 

'We person to person the smartest people,' Trump said. 'It doesn’t substance what they look like, however they speak, who they are.' 

'They person to talented, people talented. Geniuses,' helium continued. 'Can't person regular radical doing their job. We can't person regular radical doing that job. They won't beryllium capable to bash it.' 

'But we'll reconstruct religion successful American aerial travel. I'll person much to accidental astir that.' 

He called retired DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - measures by name.  

He said that the FAA's website said diverseness was 'intergral to achieving FAA's ngo of ensuring harmless and businesslike travel.'  

'I don't deliberation so, I deliberation it's conscionable the opposite,' Trump said. 

He past went aft Biden's Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.  

'That guy's a existent winner,' Trump said sarcastically. 'He's a disaster,' helium added. 

'He's got a bully enactment of bulls***,' the president said. 'He's tally it close into the crushed with his diversity.' 

Homendy had been doubly nominated by Trump to service arsenic an NTSB committee subordinate successful 2018. She finished retired a word expiring that twelvemonth and past was nominated to service a afloat five-year word that December. 

Democratic President Joe Biden then nominated Homendy to service arsenic seat successful 2021, during the opening months of his administration.