Two Planes Just Collided. Trump Team Is Arguing With People About it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The White House is now asking people in power to forget the evidence of their eyes and ears.

Two planes bumped wings while taxiing on the runway at Reagan National Airport Thursday, marking yet another critical safety failure at one of the nation’s major airports. One of the planes carried several U.S. lawmakers, including Representative Josh Gottheimer, who blamed the incident on the Trump administration’s recent cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration, claiming that slashes to the agency “weaken our skies and public safety.”

But the White House outright rejected Gottheimer’s explanation, insisting without evidence that the New Jersey representative was “wrong.”

“There have been no cuts to air traffic controllers, safety personnel, or safety-critical positions at the FAA,” the White House official X account posted.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-planes-just-collided-trump-193823406.html

[Deuxcents]

1. If these "incidents" happened under Secretary Pete's watch, you can bet they'd be demanding explanations

A helicopter fell from the sky killing an entire family and the pilot. Two private planes crashed in the last two days..one in Florida and the other in New Jersey, I think. Terrible news

[Baitball Blogger]

2. There are a couple of reasons why trump would think it was safe to lie about the air controller problem.

First, he isn't really up to all the information. Remember, he didn't know that Elon Musk was trying to get the plans from the Pentagon regarding our defense plans against China? So, maybe President Clueless doesn't realize what DOGE did to decrease the numbers.

Second, he's never been a detail man. Wouldn't surprise me if he blocked out all the media he doesn't want to hear.

Jesus. This is an irresponsible, corrupt and incompetent Administration.

[progressoid]

3. Shit - even Fox news knows they fired FAA employees

https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-begins-firings-of-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-just-weeks-after-fatal-dc-plane-crash/

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told The Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

[IronLionZion]

4. There was notably less of this with the last president

we can all see it

[Farmer-Rick]

5. I had my hopes up

I thought the headline implied pedo Trump and his drug monkey Musk were in a plane crash......shucks, I was wrong.

[groundloop]

6. tRump MUST argue that staffing is at normal levels in order to argue for privatizing the FAA

If he were to admit that FAA staffing was lower than it should be the obvious answer would be to add staff and get them trained as quickly as possible. If he pretends staffing levels are where they belong he can argue that a privatized air traffic control system would do a better job.

Of course anyone with a functioning brain will understand that in order to maximize profits a contractor will hire the bare minimum number of people, give them the bare minimum amount of training, and pay them as little as possible with the fewest benefits they can get away with. That's hardly a recipe for a safe air traffic system.