Trump signs Executive Order/ screen image: CSPAN
President Trump on Thursday signed an Executive Order to investigate Joe Biden’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies after a Blackhawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines plane near Reagan Airport on Wednesday evening.
67 people perished after a Blackhawk helicopter seemingly few right into an American Airlines plane.
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Webcam at the Kennedy Center caught an explosion mid-air across the Potomac. https://t.co/v75sxitpH6 pic.twitter.com/HInYdhBYs5
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A preliminary FAA report indicated that staffing at the DCA Air Traffic Control tower was “not normal” at the time of the helicopter-plane collision.
According to NBC News, at the time of the collision, one controller was overseeing both helicopter and airplane traffic.
Typically, one controller focuses on helicopter activity.
President Trump on Thursday morning blamed Biden and Obama’s DEI policies that lowered requirements for air traffic controllers.
Under Joe Biden, the FAA website was actually recruiting “people with severe disabilities” to work as air traffic controllers.
“A group within the FAA determined that the workforce was too white, then they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately,” Trump said after he blasted former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “This was in the Obama administration.”
“We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system,” Trump said.
Trump’s new Executive Order mandates that only the most competent and qualified people are hired as air traffic controllers.
New Acting FAA administrator, Christopher Rocheleau and newly-confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be tasked with undoing Biden’s dangerous FAA DEI policies.
“We want the most competent people, no matter what race they are,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. “If they don’t have a great brain, a great power of the brain, they’re not going to be very good at what they do.”
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JUST IN: President Trump signs executive order to investigate “DEI & woke policies” Biden imposed on the FAA pic.twitter.com/AertwdH7as
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