The truth behind Donald Trump's astounding claims Biden, Obama and DEI are to blame for crash

President Donald Trump has kept the absorption connected DEI hiring practices during 2 nationalist appearances since the aerial clang successful Washington, D.C.

He signed an bid citing 'problematic and apt amerciable decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence successful the Federal Aviation Administration.'

And helium said aerial postulation controllers request to beryllium 'geniuses' to grip the accent and analyzable movements of craft during their tense and important enactment shifts.

But helium has not provided grounds that diverseness hiring contributed to the clang betwixt an inbound formation and an Army Black Hawk chopper astatine Ronald Reagan airport. 

'We request the smartest people. We request some psychologically astute and conscionable superb period,' Trump said portion signing the bid and blaming DEI for the clang that near 64 dormant successful the Potomac River portion archetypal responders behaviour a betterment operation.

Trump and his squad person referenced a Fox News report from past twelvemonth connected Federal Aviation Administration hiring practices. 

The study quotes the FAA's website promoting diverseness hiring and stating, "Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, arsenic a substance of policy, has identified for peculiar accent successful recruitment and hiring."

'They see hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, implicit paralysis, epilepsy, terrible intelligence disability, psychiatric disablement and dwarfism." 

Trump quoted from the transition from the White House Press Briefing room, and helium was photographed what appeared to beryllium a printout of the story.

'The FAA website states they see hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, implicit paralysis, epilepsy, terrible intelligence disability, psychiatric disablement and dwarfism each qualified for the presumption of a controller of aerial planes pouring into our country, pouring into a small spot. A small dot connected the map. A runway,' Trump said.

As Trump told it, the Barack Obama medication enactment successful diverseness hiring language, which helium swept distant erstwhile helium took office, lone to person Biden reinstitute the hiring practices.

When adjutant Will Scharf work from an bid faulting the Biden medication and speechmaking signifier the bid 'elevating' competence,' Trump added: 'And Obama. But Biden overmuch worse – not adjacent a contest. What they've done is conscionable brainsick successful truthful galore different ways.'

During his nationalist remarks, Trump brushed disconnected concerns astir losing unit amid a government-wide buyout-type connection to 2 cardinal national employees that could let them to enactment astatine location and get paid done the extremity of September.

He said if employees took the woody and near the FAA's workforce, they would beryllium replaced with 'very competent people. We person a batch of competent people.'

Shortly aft his remarks, the New York Times reported that staffing was 'not normal' successful the aerial power operation Wednesday night, and that 1 idiosyncratic was handling some planes and helicopters.

Trump declined an accidental to knock the subject for seemingly conducting grooming connected a Black Hawk chopper astatine nighttime adjacent the landing country astatine the engaged Ronald Reagan airport.

'Fine if they're successful the close location, if they're not astatine the aforesaid levels,' Trump told a reporter.

Trump blamed DEI policies for the clang during an extraordinary property conference Thursday, which was followed by a caller enforcement bid signing during the afternoon.

That bid invoked his Presidential Memorandum of January 21, 2025, titled Keeping Americans Safe successful Aviation, which Trump inked connected his 2nd time successful office. 

Despite his emphasis, Trump did not supply circumstantial grounds that hiring played a relation successful the crash, adjacent arsenic information astir the pilots and unit was filtering out,.

Asked constituent blank Thursday f helium was alert of immoderate show issues oregon disciplinary actions with anyone moving astatine DCA's aerial power operation oregon the craft during the crash, Trump responded: 'No.'

But astatine different point, asked if contention and gender played a relation successful the tragic accident, Trump said: 'It whitethorn have, I don't know. Incompetence mightiness person played a role.'