Thoughts and prayers

No doubt it's a deep state plot to make Trump look bad.

In fact, on the other hand, who would put it past Trump or his lackies to stage a terrible incident to start another spiral of executive "emergency" power grab?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 10:03 pm:

From BBC:

UPDATE 01/30/2025:

Brilliant.  Thanks for making that clear.  We weren't sure.

Of course they did.  Absolutely predictable.

Aso absolutely predictable.

Everybody knows the opportunity to polish off the target is when it's down on the ground and before it can get back up.

Also, look at the chyron.

Opinions trump facts every time.  Or should I say - Trump opinions beat facts every time.

LOL.  Where'd they find that?

God, that man is a dick.

Just plain pathetic.

The Trump library is going to be a house of horrors - but also a joke.

Yes.

I have a feeling we'll never again (at least while MAGA rules) get any investigation of any disaster or event that we can believe.*  (On the other hand, if he can just sign an order blaming Biden for anything, maybe we will.)

Also, yes.

UPDATE 07:19 pm:

UPDATE 01/31/2025:

Sargent: Well, you brought up the fact that the DEI programs persisted through the Trump administration. Trump read from an article basically saying that the FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe disabilities, including intellectual, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website. That’s more or less what he said. What’s he referring to there?

Kayyem: He’s referring to unbelievably generic language that is used in efforts to hire. The FAA needs bodies. We know that in particular after Covid or during Covid it lost a lot of personnel. And once again, they’re hiring for lots of positions. And once again, some of those positions, when you think about say mental disability, might include military members with PTSD who have skills that the FAA may actually want. This is the idea he has: of some elite group of people, all white, all look like Secretary Duffy and Secretary Hegseth, of this toxic masculinity being the smart, brilliant, the best of the best. And that’s his idea of who should be in these types of roles.

  New Republic

That may be what he's "referring to," but I want to know just where he got that wording he uses. It looks like utter made-up bullshit, which is something he resorts to as often as he takes a breath.

*

And, can we all keep in mind that DEI does NOT mean hiring UNQUALIFIED people.  That's the purview of Trump 2.0.

UPDATE 02/09/2025:

[I]t turns out that the program to offer FAA careers to people with disabilities—the program Trump specifically decried yesterday—was a Trump administration initiative from 2019.

  Bulwark