Even as the divers struggled to bring the victims to the surface of the ice stream on January 30, Donald Trump entered the White House briefing to throw guilty. Instead of waiting for the results of an investigation into a collision between a commercial plane and a military helicopter that died 67, he decided to share his “very firm opinions and ideas” about his business.
Trump did not refer to a chronic lack and short staffing schedule Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Mandatory overtime and six -day work weeks that many air traffic controllers are transferred to maintain security amid the highest volume of flights over the US or recent Adding an additional flightS to the already packaged airspace of Reagan National Airport (DCA) in persistence of powerful politicians and airlines. Instead, he focused on the programs of the federal diversity, justice and inclusion (Dei).
At Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the recently sent to the Transport Secretary, Pete Batigieg, he claimed that incompetent controllers were taken when they filled the goals of the diversity. Trump assured the press that his administration would only hire those who own the “highest level of genius”, regardless of “how they look”. Of course, he was unable to defend this charge. Upon pressing the evidence, he only cited his “common sense”. And, when he pressed further, or played a dei role in the disaster, he confessed, “Maybe I don’t know” before you go to the helicopter crew. After the press conference, he signed another directive, which obliges that the FAI would end all DEI’s efforts, including in its first term.
It would be difficult to imagine the scene, more carefully illustrative for the advanced moral breakdown of today’s Republican Party than what happened this week, especially if Trump’s actions against the actions of the president after which the DCA is named.
Forty -three years ago, Ronald Reagan considered it an independent catastrophe that included another catastrophe. January 13, 1982, Air flight 90. On this day, there was insufficient shooting with more than 11,000 members of the professional air traffic controllers (PATCO) to create an illegal strike – walking for safety and long working days. The ban on these strikers led to a deadly 50-minute expectation between the 90s flight and its takeoff when the controllers of the controllers fought for moving to the storm.
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If Reagan accused the attackers of this catastrophe, he would have increased public concern to ban even those who gave up the pad and asked for a second chance to return to work. So, instead of throwing guilty, Reagan raised the hero. In his union’s state that year he Highly appreciated the federal worker LennySitting next to the first lady in the gallery of visitors to bravely jump into an ice descendant to save one of the five survivors of the 90s. Referring to the heroism of the skin, Reagan effectively detained himself from any fault. This shrewd step has opened a political tradition: each president has ever warmed up in the reflected radiance of everyday American heroes who are strategically located in the gallery for this purpose.
When the Reagan partially avoided the accounting, raising the skin, the cheerful accusation of Trump seems less likely to divert attention from his own guilt. Lifting his clearly groundless dispute, which he failed to defend in the press, Trump invited heavy control over a significant role, which he and his allies played in bringing our air movement control to his current state of instability.
The number of air traffic controllers declined every year of Trump’s first presidency. Trump then loaded the air traffic controllers (and other federal workers) into uncertainty during the 2018-19 government shutdown, which made the controllers work without paying for their already beaten morality. Such shutdown is just over, it should be remembered if enough controllers of the New York district called on the ground on the east coast.
Biden’s years saw the slow restoration of the controller. But pre -emptive signs of the systemic crisis grows. The training of new controllers was broken by Covid Pandemy, and the staffing deficit continued. SPOA almost brought FAA to convene an unusual “Safety Summit“March 23, 2023 to discuss decisions, and General Inspector of the Transport Department Eric J. Soskin completed A 2023 Audit It turned out that the 20 most important FAA 26 objects (77 percent) were below 85 percent minimum staffing level, and the executives had the responsibilities of overtime and six-day working weeks to cover the staff deficiency. FAA Biden hired 1811 Controllers in 2024, and his 2025 budget sought financing Home 2000 still.
Trump’s return to the presidency has already failed for air safety. He fired General Inspector Dota Soskin, who illuminated the degree of problems with FAA. Trump’s White House Alter Ego Elon Musk succeeded in FAA administrator Biden Mike Whitakter even before Trump swore because FAA Wait had an entertainment for a wonderful SpaceX Security violations. Musk even went as far away as claim that “Humanity will be timed forever to the earth if there is no radical reform in the FAI!” The fact that Trump’s FAPs intend to radical changes seem to be clear. Amazing his letter calls on federal workers to retire and find a job in the private sector went to air traffic dispatchers Despite the continuation of the personnel crisis at the country’s airports.
Vera Reagan, that “government is a problem”, initiated a long, tragic deterioration of respect for state workers, including those who keep our sky safe. But the “deep” Trump conspiracy theories and Dei obsession cause much more useful damage, reducing the anti -lens discourse to the authoritarian theater and farce. Don’t be mistaken, these recent events are a harbinger of what is ahead. Trump’s efforts to divert attention to Dei should not avoid our eyes from a greater collision that threatens the functioning of our government unless we make a course correction.
