Summary

Trump blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring policies for a fatal plane crash in Washington, D.C., despite no evidence linking them.

He accused the Biden and Obama administrations of lowering FAA safety standards, while ignoring that the crash occurred under his presidency.

His comments sparked backlash, with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling them “despicable” and Sen. Chris Van Hollen condemning the politicization of the tragedy.

  • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    DEI is the new ‘fake news.’ Pay attention to his actions not his words. He just established an extrajudicial concentration camp for migrants (and soon anyone else he doesn’t like) at Gitmo. Thats the story, and its time to take action to stop this.

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      The way they use it seems to also be swappable with the n-word. Republican lawmakers all seem to be chomping at the bits to express that meaning as some sort of symbolism that they’ve won the race war hardly anyone else is playing.

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        16 hours ago

        This morning I was joking that he’d blame it on DEI because it was a Black Hawk helicopter. Then I heard the fuckstick really did blame it on DEI

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          Word association is literally all he offers. Always a very reasonable assumption, eg, asylum seekers are former asylum prisoners. It’s so dumb I lose brain cells repeating it.