Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ends DEI Madness and Restores Excellence and Safety within the FAA

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

All Feared Dead In Midair Collision Near DC Airport
January 30, 2025

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ends DEI Madness and Restores Excellence and Safety within the Federal Aviation Administration
January 22, 2025

FLIGHTS SHOULD BE SUPERVISED BY THE BEST EMPLOYEES: President Donald J. Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum terminating a Biden Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hiring policy that prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over safety and efficiency.

• This Presidential Memorandum orders the Secretary of Transportation and FAA Administrator to immediately stop Biden DEI hiring programs and return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring.
• It also requires the FAA Administrator to review the past performance and performance standards of all FAA employees in critical safety positions and make clear that any individual who fails to demonstrate adequate capability is replaced by someone who will ensure Americans’ flight safety and efficiency.

MILLIONS OF AMERICANS RELY ON SAFE, TIMELY AIR TRAVEL EVERY DAY: Safety and competence should be the only job criteria for FAA employees, yet the Biden Administration violated the public trust—as well as the law—by prioritizing illegal DEI hiring.

• Every day, more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers traveling for work or fun or to visit friends and family entrust their lives to the FAA.
• Almost unbelievably, as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative, the Biden FAA specifically recruited and hired individuals with “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric issues, and complete paralysis over other individuals who sought to work for the FAA.
• President Trump is immediately terminating this illegal and dangerous program and requiring that all FAA hiring be based solely on ensuring the safety of airline passengers and overall job excellence.

• On January 11, 2023, two weeks after a major holiday airline crisis, an FAA system outage caused by employees missteps grounded all flights for the first time since 9/11, an illustration of the importance of FAA competence.

FULFILLING PROMISE TO END ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION AND BRING BACK COMMON SENSE: This Presidential Memorandum builds on President Trump’s day-one Executive Order ending the Biden Administration’s illegal and immoral DEI discrimination programs.

• In his inaugural address, President Trump promised: ““We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.”

President Trump stated in his January 20, 2025 Executive Order on Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing: “Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.”

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1. Translation- black people are inherently unable to do this

Women, people of color, none un them foreigners either, or any mixture there of.

That’s what anti-DEI means and it’s received as such by a lot of people.

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2. Trump promises safety in the air.

It sounds as though the helicopter may have been off course. Hegseth hasn't had time to destroy military training programs yet, but if we were Republicans we would be all over Fox blaming Hegseth’s policies for the crash anyway.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. It might still be their fault if the helicopter was using

new autopilot engineering. We'll just have to wait and see.

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3. Why isn't this posting right wing talking points?

No comments from the poster.

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5. It's pretty obvious to me with the opening line ... "Joe. My. God."

Obvious that they’re pointing out evidence of a fuckup.

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6. Maddowblog-Following deadly plane crash, Trump blames Democrats, DEI without evidence

Expectations were low ahead of the president's comments on the Flight 5342 crash. With his ugly and partisan rhetoric, Trump failed to clear a low bar.
https://bsky.app/profile/socalkid.bsky.social/post/3lgykpyaqak2i

FOTUS little dick DonOld is such a fucking douchebag! Lives were lost motherfucker, but you just don’t give two shits. That’s all I’ve got…

Following deadly plane crash, Trump blames Democrats, DEI without evidence

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-rails-dei-response-deadly-american-airlines-army-helicopter-cras-rcna190024

As the morning progressed, the White House announced that the president would offer additional public remarks on the tragedy, which offered Trump an opportunity to do what he failed to do overnight. Instead, he made matters vastly worse. As NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump targeted former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in his remarks on the deadly D.C. plane crash, saying Biden’s “policy was horrible.”

To be sure, expectations were low ahead of the Republican’s public remarks on the disaster. Trump hasn’t exactly earned a reputation for excellence when it comes to post-tragedy responses.

But the incumbent president failed to clear a low bar....

Asked if the crash was caused by diversity hiring, the president said, “It just could have been.”

A reporter pressed Trump to explain how, exactly, he came to the conclusion that diversity had something to do with the crash. He replied,
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Link to tweet

Around the same time, asked whether he’s “getting ahead of the investigation,” Trump went on to say, “No, I don’t think so,” adding that he didn’t consider that a “smart question.”

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Link to tweet

So to recap, as recovery efforts continue, Trump responded to a deadly crash by blaming Democrats, DEI, the FAA, a former cabinet secretary, and unnamed pilots.

"Listen, it’s one thing for internet pundits to spew off conspiracies, it’s another for the president of the United States to throw out idle speculation as bodies are still being recovered and families are still being notified," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the press conference. "It just turns your stomach."....

In 2025, Americans simply can’t count on their president for reliable and trustworthy information in the wake of a tragedy.