Take the severance or a black hawk
Is guided into your flight path
3 million federal workers
Might start thinking of relocating
What's a few ice skaters
Executive blunders and criminal cabinets
Deporting millions
Prisoners make good free labor fighting fires,
Building rebuilding homes
A week in
The tick goes for the bloody heart
Take the buyout
Busiest runway in America one way back to Wichita
My cousin Vinny makes a great
Air traffic controller, see
No hands musk
Fire, rehire
Or just play the market with the freed up dividends
Want a visa
Can you lay bricks and sheetrock while guiding air traffic
You're hired, now go make me a hamburger
After putting down that union sacred cow
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Trump continued to turn what might have been a sombre briefing into a baseless rant against DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) despite no evidence of a link with the plane crash.
The president was backed to the hilt by transportation secretary Sean Duffy, who said “we can only accept the best and the brightest” in positions affecting passenger safety, and defence secretary Pete Hegseth, who echoed: “The era of DEI is gone at the defence department and we need the best and brightest.”
Then came vice-president JD Vance, who claimed “we want to hire the best people” who are “actually competent enough to do the job”.
Trump returned to the lectern to claim that “very powerful tests” for competence in air traffic control were “terminated” by Joe Biden.
CNN’s Kaitlin Collins asked: “Aren’t you getting ahead of the investigation?” Trump replied: “No, I don’t think so at all... I don’t think that’s a smart question. I’m surprised, coming from you.”
Another reporter asked why Trump believes DEI is responsible. He said: “Because I have common sense and unfortunately a lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level.”
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We had a situation where you had a helicopter that had the ability to stop … You can stop a helicopter very quickly.
It had the ability to go up or down, it had the ability to turn.
And the turn it made was not the correct turn, obviously, and did somewhat the opposite of what it was told,” Donald Trump said.
“They shouldn’t have been at the same height,
because if it was at the same height,
you could have gone under it or over it,
and nobody realized,
or they didn’t say,
that it’s at the same height …
It could have been 1000ft higher,
it could have been 200ft lower,
but it was exactly at the same height and
somebody should have been able to point that out,” he added.
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"All six people aboard were from Mexico, according to reports, and the plane was registered there. Police said it was on medical assignment.
It was the second fatal crash in 15 months for Jet Rescue. In 2023 five crew members were killed when their plane overran a runway in the central Mexican state of Morelos and crashed into a hillside.
The Philadelphia
crash happened less than 3 miles (4.8km) from Northeast Philadelphia airport, which primarily serves business jets and charter flights. It came two days after a commercial airliner collided with a military helicopter near Reagan Washington National airport outside of Washington DC, killing all 67 aboard both aircraft."
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" the helicopter was performing a “continuity of government” drill designed to help pilots “rehearse in ways that would reflect a real world scenario"
The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter’s unit, the 12th aviation battalion, is assigned a mission to
evacuate top US officials from Washington DC
to secure locations in the event of an emergency.
Those locations include Raven Rock Mountain, a facility in Pennsylvania
constructed in the 1950s for use as a command center in the event of a nuclear war."
The FAA preliminary safety report found that staffing at the airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic”,
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