US transport secretary reacts to plane crashes with ban on celebrating diversity

Donald Trump’s medication is blaming diverseness for 2 level crashes that killed 74 radical successful the USA this week.

The President suggested the recruitment of aerial postulation controllers with ‘severe intelligence and psychiatric disabilities’ could beryllium liable for 1 clang connected Wednesday.

He described the mentation arsenic ‘common sense’ aft the mid-air collision betwixt a rider pitchy and an Army chopper successful Washington DC, successful which 67 radical died.

After an aerial ambulance crashed successful Philadelphia, sidesplitting six radical connected committee and 1 connected the crushed connected Friday, his Transport Secretary announced a prohibition connected celebrations of individuality successful the department.

Posting connected X, Sean Duffy said: ‘Effective immediately, the Department of Transportation volition nary longer enactment successful celebrations based connected immutable traits oregon immoderate different identity-based observances.

‘These distractions bash thing to support planes successful the air, trains connected the tracks, oregon ports and highways secure. In the aftermath of 2 devastating level crashes, my absorption is singular: enforcing the highest standards of information and accountability.

‘From present on, mundane of each period we observe transportation, beauteous infrastructure, and safety.’

Diversity has marginally accrued successful the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) successful the past decade.

In 2016, Barack Obama’s past twelvemonth successful office, 59% of workers were achromatic men portion radical with definite disablement targeted for recruitment made up 0.7%. In 2023, those figures were 55% and 2%.

Responding to Trump’s claims, Pete Buttigieg, Transport Secretary nether Joe Biden, said: ‘Despicable. 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.

‘President Trump present 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.’

One of Trump’s archetypal acts arsenic president was to prohibition each national diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEI) programmes.

His continued targeting of diversity, earlier immoderate probe into the crashes is complete, has drawn disapproval from disabilities rights groups.

Maria Town, president of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), said: ‘The president is deliberately spreading falsehoods to demonize the 4th of American adults who unrecorded with disabilities alternatively than directing national resources towards ensuring specified a devastating calamity ne'er happens again.’

Amid the blasted game, a transgender subject aviator had to station a video proving she was live aft rumours dispersed online that she was flying the chopper that crashed into a pitchy adjacent Reagan National Airport.

The Black Hawk chopper was rehearsing a ‘doomsday’ mission to evacuate apical authorities officials successful the outbreak of atomic war, panic attacks oregon earthy disasters erstwhile it crashed.

Jo Ellis, from the Virginia Army National Guard, was wrongly identified arsenic the pilot.

Ellis said: ‘It is insulting to the families to effort to necktie this to immoderate benignant of governmental agenda. They don’t merit that. I don’t merit this. And I anticipation that you each cognize that I americium live and well, and this should beryllium capable for you each to extremity each the rumors.’

The aviator has since been confirmed arsenic Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, who was joined by Staff Sgt Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, and Captain Rebecca Lobach.

Lobach’s sanction was lone released connected Saturday aft her household had initially requested the Army support it from the public.

Her household said: ‘She was a agleam prima successful each our lives. Rebecca was a warrior and would not hesitate to support her state successful battle.’

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