Trump wastes no time placing blame on Democrats for midair collision
President Donald Trump on Thursday, without evidence, sought to blame the policies of previous Democratic administrations for Wednesday’s deadly midair collision over the Potomac River.
“We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system,” Trump said. “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary.”
He continued: “You remember that. Only the highest aptitude. They have to be the highest intellect and psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. That was not so prior to getting there.”
Trump added: “When I arrived in 2016, I made that change very early on, because I always felt this was a job that, and other jobs too, but this was a job that had to be superior intelligence, and we didn’t really have that. And we had it. And then when I left office and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before.
“Their policy was horrible,” the president said, “and their politics was even worse.”
The president later attacked Pete Buttigieg, who was secretary of transportation in Biden’s administration.
“He was a disaster,” Trump said of the former secretary, who previously also worked as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. “He was a disaster as a mayor, he ran his city into the ground, and he’s a disaster now. He’s just got a good line of bullshit.”
Trump said Buttigieg ran the Department of Transportation “into the ground with his diversity”
This post was updated with Trump’s remarks about Pete Buttigieg.
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