****Thread for shrieking out loud about this shitshow of a presser***

[nolabear]

Oh my fucking GOD. He may be the most stupid, shambling, incoherent, vindictive moron I have ever had to endure. He’s desperately reciting what maybe could have happened—up, down, turn around, Biden, Pete. Dwarves?

Oh. My. GOD.

[Ocelot II]

1. Turn off your TV and pour yourself a nice stiff drink.

Yes, it's early, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

[Drum]

4. ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. It's nearly 5:00 p.m. in London. NT

[Ocelot II]

13. The sun is over the yardarm somewhere.

[Ray Bruns]

18. Hey! It's five o'clock somewhere.

[stollen]

33. I'll take my stiff drink overseas

provided all our air traffic controllers haven't taken Trump's bait to retire.

I've been packed since early Nov.

[Irish_Dem]

56. We are all going to need a 12 step program by next week.

[Ocelot II]

59. Yup. I rarely drink but I'm considering doing more of it.

[Irish_Dem]

61. I don't drink but I wish I did.

A nice stiff shot might make it all better for an hour or two.

[True Blue American]

65. Times like this a

Drink would help. My Lemonaide is not working.

[Irish_Dem]

72. I did treat myself to a McDonald's fountain coke.

Yesterday after the federal layoffs, etc and then today.

In times of stress it is my go to beverage of choice.

Yep, didn't really do the trick.

[JohnnyRingo]

103. Mexican Coke is my go to cocktail.

Made with pure cane sugar and tastes like Coke did when I was a kid.
I pour some in a wine glass over one ice cube and sip like it's Nectar of the Gods. Giant Eagle sells it.

[Irish_Dem]

107. I know, I keep trying the Mexican coke because it has cane sugar not fructose.

But it is quite different in taste from regular Coke.

The best store bought I think is regular coke in little glass bottles.

Of course the nectar of the god's for me is McDonald's fountain coke.
Perfect coke taste with high carbonation that burns the back of your throat a bit.
Perfection. Nothing else comes close.

[John1956PA]

126. Aahh, fellow Coke-a-Cola connoisseur!

The urban legend is that New Coke was marketed so that consumers would forget how good the cane sugar product tasted. New Coke contained fructose sugar, plus some deliberately bad tasting ingredients. The company knew the consumers would revolt. After they did, the company followed its preconceived plan and marketed "Classic Coke" which was basically New Coke without the unpleasant tasting ingredients. The result was that customers thought they got back the original Coke. However, what they got was a version of the original Coke which has its cane sugar swapped out for less-costly fructose sugar.

Yes, the Mexican food aisles of grocery stores here offer Coke-a-Cola in glass bottles. Thank you for explaining that it contains cane sugar.

[Irish_Dem]

130. I believe it.

Didn't the original Coca Cola contain cocaine?
The company has been playing games with the public since its onset.

I wonder what the McDonald's fountain coke has in it that makes it taste
unlike coke sold in the store or even the other fast food fountain coke?

Someone here suggested it was the high bacteria count associated with the McDonald's soda fountains.
Which wouldn't surprise me since my Druid/Irish DNA goes back thousands of years enjoying bacteria
laden beverages.

[Americanme]

118. There is a Mexican restaurant here

that serves bottles of Mexican coke, I love it.

[LeftInTX]

111. I thought I was lame with milkshakes and virgin cocktails!

NYE: Pineapple juice with coconut creme (no rum)

[Irish_Dem]

168. I love a virgin mary.

[Linda ladeewolf]

167. Add rum!

[Irish_Dem]

170. Bring a big bottle of rum into McDonald's and sit in a booth right next to the Coke fountain.

Get my laptop out and every time Trump or Musk act like jackwads, get myself a large
coke, pour rum into it and swig away.

I don't drink but sounds like a plan.

[Linda ladeewolf]

171. At least you could forget

For a few minutes, what stupid thing was done. Only drawback I see, is that the stupid stuff occurs about every 15 minutes now. So you’d be too drunk to type!

[Irish_Dem]

172. I'd be dead in two hours.

I don't drink and I am small.
But I'd be happy sitting next to a McD's Cole fountain.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

164. Now that I am comfortably retired,

I may have to take up smoking some weed occasionally. It would be great to just laugh myself silly when Trump says or does something stupid instead of stressing out.

I’d have to be careful if I got the munchies though as I’m a type 2 diabetic.

[Irish_Dem]

165. I am sure there are others who feel the same way now.

We can see why the alcoholism rate in Russia is so high.
Living under a ruthless dictatorship takes a toll.

Yes you will have to be careful on the munchie end of things.

With all my Irish DNA, drinking is not a good idea for me.
And I have a severe allergic reaction to pot, violent throwing up.
Tried it in college and was sick as a dog.

I will have to handle the Trump years unmedicated.

[Irish_Dem]

75. This is probably why the Russians drink so much.

They put up with this insanity for years.

[milestogo]

82. I don't drink because of migraines

but I deliberately didn't watch the press conference.

[Ocelot II]

83. It probably would have given you a migraine.

[Marthe48]

140. I only drink on one occasion

Any occasion! (A sweatshirt my dad had in the 1960s)

[Old Crank]

104. Brownies

That what we are using. Brownies. Medical brownies.

[Irish_Dem]

112. We are beginning to see why the Russians drink so much.

They live with this fascist crapola every day.

[SimplyHadEnough]

125. Omg! Lol 🤣 😆 😂

[Prairie_Seagull]

73. I am going to need a bigger funnel.

Calgon, take me away.

[milestogo]

87. Don't drink the bath beads.

[Prairie_Seagull]

94. buahahaha nt.

[BattleRow]

151. And don't bring me back...

[Delmette2.0]

95. As soon as it was announced that -45%47 would be

speaking. I poured a strong drink.
When he was almost done and I could not taken any more, I got a forbidden cigarette from my secret stash and had 4 puffs.
I hope I never give in again and listen to that fool.

[Cirsium]

96. Well done

[bdamomma]

155. It is no secret

that Russians have a heavy ingestion of vodka consumption because of their oppressive dictatorship.

My opinion we need to stay focused.

[madaboutharry]

2. Vance now blaming DEI air traffic controllers!

I can’t believe this shit!

[pfitz59]

35. WTF?

God forbid any of the pilots or controllers involved are female or people of color! The Trump Circus has already over-stayed their welcome.

[Pachamama]

39. The pilots of the Blackhawk and Air traffic controllers must be Gay, Black and Female

Because that explains his and his cabinets blaming of DEI hires for this tragedy

Evil psychopath

[madaboutharry]

41. Trump also was blaming DEI.

[JohnnyRingo]

105. I caught that, especially from JD

Apparently there weren't enough qualified white people on the job last night or ATC was fixing his make-up.

haha

[thinkingagain]

128. Or anything DEI

Gay, disabled, or apparently
a dwarf (what in the ..? )
did I miss anything?

They have their own DEI

Old white man
Young republican white man
Bearded republican white man
Air headed people
Pedophiles
DUI people ( drugs or Alchol)
Sex offenders

Did I miss any ?

[bdamomma]

156. DEI

aren't we tired of hearing that lie, over and over again?

Is DEI, the old affirmative action, and those who are critical are playing the same card over and over.

[PittBlue]

3. I cannot watch one moment of him.

Brings out the worst in me. Dark, horrible thoughts.🙄

[question everything]

5. I turned it off. Could not have just offered condolences and promise investigation?

Just blaming Obama and Biden.

[KatyaR]

106. that would be showing empathy,

And that's a sin, don't ya know....

[walkingman]

6. We are witnessing some the the "greatest people"? It's like a nightmare - wake me up!.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I just broke a plate in my kitchen with his comments.

[Prairie_Seagull]

80. A proper wind up should help.

[Hugin]

8. It'll all weave together after a turn in the sanewasher.

By this evening the M$M will be agog and breathless at the geeeenius of it all. Especially, Fox News.

[CrispyQ]

28. LOL. Best post of the day!!

It'll all weave together after a turn in the sanewasher.

[Hugin]

37. It's with great pain and regret, I say...

Thank you.

[Wednesdays]

10. And to think, this is just the beginning.

We have 3 years and 355 more days of this.

[bamagal62]

67. OMG. that is so depressing.

[Nixie]

137. The longest 10 days ever! This is why you can't ignore him. He's too

dangerous!

I saw MSNBC’s ratings have come back strong. People have to keep their eye on the next chaotic danger he puts us all in.

[yorkster]

159. Better a firehose than a tsunami. Found this

out after going news free for just a few hours a couple of days ago. Keereist.
Now, I am reminded of the old saying about being paranoid and being followed not being mutually exclusive...

[Liberal In Texas]

11. Blame Biden. The Orange Hoover go to excuse.

And throw in Obama just for giggles.

[spanone]

119. Don't forget Pete Buttigieg

Video of trmp bashing Pete Buttigieg

https://www.indystar.com/videos/news/politics/2025/01/30/donald-trump-slams-pete-buttigieg-after-dc-crash-near-reagan-airport/78054185007

[Attilatheblond]

127. Reasonable to draw conclusions re who TCF fears most by keeping track of who he blames more often

Newsome, Buttigieg, Obama, Biden

[diehardblue]

12. Absolutely shameful!!!!

[badhair77]

14. Let him rant and ramble. Lots of lines that can be used against him in the future or a sanity hearing.

[nolabear]

19. This is the hope I cling to. He's incapable of operating a business

He couldn’t do that when he was younger. They gave him our fucking COUNTRY!

[maxsolomon]

20. There will never be a "sanity hearing".

You have to be joking.

[badhair77]

25. Only partly kidding but there are wealthy people who would also like Vance in charge.

He easily controlled, too. Look at his billionaire cabinet. If his 2016 administration cabinet members discussed removing him this group would have more to work with.

[Silent Type]

15. Wasn't much on trying to blame the crash on trump, but good gawd this is the most insane presser I've seen, rivaling

suggesting shining a bright light up your rear and drinking bleach will cure Covid.

[ms liberty]

16. Dwarves? Not on my bingo card

I'm not watching either, but I'm sure it will all become clear some day

[gopiscrap]

53. what?

[bamagal62]

69. Did he say something about Dwarves???

[wishstar]

108. Yes he did say "dwarves" in reading list of characteristics of DEI/inclusivity hires

implying hiring of people with mental and/or physical handicaps are to blame

[allegorical oracle]

132. Hope that he didn't get the dwarf vote. Nah. They're smarter than that.

[Liberal In Texas]

150. The only Small Person I knew very well was a Fox watching RW spouting guy.

We used to have some pretty good arguments.

[Efilroft Sul]

17. I'm unable to watch, but is the press corps just acting as uncritical, unchallenging stenographers?

[nolabear]

21. No, they tried. He just went on and on criticizing and raging

It was random and obvious and stream of consciousness idiocy.

[Ray Bruns]

22. Looks like I am going to have to find. Way to stay awake for Stephen Colbert tonight.

[TommyT139]

36. Psst! Some nice soul almost always posts clips

...of the monologue, the "Meanwhile"/second segment, and the opening fake commercial or whatever. And I think as a second post, the guest(s). Check Liberal YouTubers.

Very handy!

[Ray Bruns]

44. Well, if it's as big a shit show as some people are saying, I must see it firsthand.

[nolabear]

23. Now the talking heads are trying to make sense of it.

They’re picking their jaws up off the floor.

[kimbutgar]

24. I saw a clip on Bluesky that was i out in mute and read the close captioning

This is the biggest bunch of bs garbage a$$ kissing I have ever seen!

I’m nervous now about flying. My husband flying is out of town next week to visit his mother and now I’m scared.

[Maru Kitteh]

123. He's still in so much more danger driving to the airport than

Getting on the flight. I know it’s hard to calm the fear, but it’s still absolutely true that he’s way more likely to get into trouble in the car than the plane. It’s also true that believe it or not, most people who are in an airline accident, survive.

Hard to use the rational mind where love is involved it’ll be okay.

[Vinca]

26. I'm surprised you guys couldn't hear me wherever you are. The fool caused me to yell the loudest,

longest string of profanities ever uttered by a human being. Still trying to get my blood pressure back to a survivable range.

[Pachamama]

34. I was channeling you

I am still screaming profanities

[calimary]

81. I haven't been able to stop that since last November.

[Hugin]

40. I thought global warming had brought a harbor full of sailors into town.

[Vinca]

51. Thanks - I needed that.

[Traildogbob]

70. Let's stop

All the bullshit about how us sailers talk, get drunk and spend money!!!! That includes the blonde bimbo with the MEGA Cross hanging out proud for all Christian’s to see, that crawls out trumps ass to spew the shit she absorbed when up there. I fucking hate all the God damned Fucking Stereotyping of the muther fucking brave warriors of the seas that have no fucking fear of sharks.
I am so God damned Muther fucking Mad I am gonna go spend my fucking egg money to buy an ass load of fucking alcohol and get drunk and throw around all the fuckin Harbor words I can muster at the God damned children.
Fuckin A!!!! Proud fucking Sailor here, a bad ass muther fucking Destroyer Sailor.
😉😉⚓️⚓️ God Bless MurKKKa.

[Hugin]

91. Well, golly...

I stand corrected.

[Traildogbob]

109. Actually

Took me a while to not use the F word the way teen girls use to use “Like” a few years ago.
No women were on our ship, so we just created a whole new language.
But when we went ashore, I got as far away from drunken sailors as possible and took time to explore the country we parked at.
Great thing about a destroyer, 300+ crew. I/3 of that stay aboard each day so I only had to avoid 200 drunks.
A carrier, 5,000+. So the harbor's that had to host them……my sympathies.
Gotta say though, ever since Trump became a thing, I talk like a sailor on an all male ship that’s been at sea for 6 weeks. Fuckin A!
But only my dog’s, just one now, the other had to get THE shot 6 weeks ago, are subjected to my sailor lingo. And ya’ll here on DU get a sampling.

[Hugin]

116. At least you recognize it for what it is...

Yes, I am familiar with how unique vocabularies and dialects emerge in confined, isolated, and stressful situations.

[Codifer]

92. Airedale here,

With the fucking same sentiment.

[Traildogbob]

110. 🤜🤛

[haele]

122. Went to C school for a system Sprucans and Gatorfreighters..

Hear ya loud and clear. I would add a few choice Tagalog words I learned from my fellow west Pac Squids if I could without being accused of cultural appropriation.

[BoRaGard]

27. Bafflegab

It's a republicon strategery in their war against decency and American democracy

[calimary]

85. That's a good word for it, BoRaGard. Bafflegab.

That’s a perfect word for the verbal sewage flowing out of the donald’s mouth all day every day.

And Baffleblab, too.

[BattleRow]

154. Baffleflab spewing baffle gab.

[Pachamama]

29. I was screaming at the top of my lungs

Evil evil psychopath

They are still pulling bodies out of the Potomac and 3 soldiers dead and their families not all notified yet and he is blaming DEI and the Blackhawk pilots????

Horrible motherfucker psychopath

[William Seger]

30. Here's my latest rant as a comment on a right-wing YouTube video

Well, I watched the whole thing, and Donald Trump is still an obnoxiously self-obsessed malignant narcissist, pathological liar, racist bigot, misogynist, insurrectionist, fascist demagogue, twice impeached, four times indicted convicted felon and unregistered sex offender with a well-documented history of lying and cheating his way through every aspect of his life, who should be in jail right now. He cheated his way into college and out of the draft; he cheated contractors in his businesses; he cheated on his taxes, loan applications, and business records; he cheated the people who signed up for his fake university and who contributed to his fake charity; he cheated on all three of his wives; and he even cheats at golf. He failed at business after business but walked away with money while all his investors got screwed. His credit got so bad, he had to go to Russia for loans, and we know what that led to. But he finally succeeded as a game show host, with the laughable premise that he was a business genius -- one of the original reasons that "reality TV" should always be put in quotes. Then he went into politics, originally as a marketing strategy, where he has firmly established himself as the most prolific and blatant liar that American politics has ever seen, by at least an order of magnitude. At the end of his first administration, he tried every cheat and told every lie he could think of to avoid facing the narcissistic ego injury of losing. This time around, he has also disgraced the nation with sleazy and cheesy merchandising -- apparently any sort of over-priced crap that will pay him big royalties. Re-electing Trump is the biggest disgrace this country has ever suffered, and make no mistake: We know it's because of the narrow-minded, short-sighted, self-centered, hypocritical, willfully ignorant, callous and mean-spirited reactionaries who voted for him. Like all fascist demagogues, his rhetoric was aimed directly at their fears, prejudices, and resentment. He treats his cult like they are stupid, and there's only one conclusion that I can draw from his success at that.

It's actually an evolving copy-and-paste rant that I've been developing whilst doing some therapeutic venting on right-wing YouTube. If anyone can think of stuff I left out, please let me know.

[nolabear]

42. Not bad. Can you work in that he sounds like a third grader?

Again and again trying to sound as though he knows ANYTHING about the situation, the organization, the current state of the FAA and air traffic controllers and doing it with “They coulda gone up, they coulda gone down, they coulda turned around…they hired DWARVES!”

[William Seger]

63. Good point, and add that there are no known videos of him talking knowledgeably about ANY subject

[William Seger]

64. Oh, and he has the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old

[Evolve Dammit]

74. Helluva great start!

[ultralite001]

129. Don't stop...

+ thank you for sharing...

You've made a good start...

[Johonny]

31. His Katrina moment is a shitshow

And hopefully like Katrina basically ends his aborted shitshow of a presidency. His popularity was at 45 percent yesterday. Let's see how happy people are now.

[KnoxVol]

32. I'm still shocked, but should know better

It’s unbelievable what we just witnessed, and we all knew full well what we were getting when he got back in. I’m blown away.

The entire administration used their time to 1.) Congratulate Trump and 2.) Blame DEI, Obama, Biden.

And the supporters will eat this up.

[nolabear]

45. Me too. I should know by now, but it's so goddamn bizarre.

It’s outside the realm of understanding.

[underpants]

38. Did he really mention dwarfs?

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I’ve seen comments about that. Did he really mention dwarfs?

[XanaDUer2]

43. I need to know this

[underpants]

46. Apparently he did but I don't have a direct quote or video yet

He cited efforts by the FAA to hire individuals with disabilities, including Dwarfism, missing limbs and intellectual disabilities.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5116332-trump-0faa-dei-plane-crash/

[nolabear]

48. He really did, in his rant about DEI hires.

He listed the people they were supposedly hiring as a result. Mentally ill, disabled, dwarves…

The man is stupid beyond comprehension. Never mind his considerable psychological problems. He’s STUPID.

[underpants]

57. Thanks. I posted an excerpt from The Hill

Twitter is mentioning it but I haven’t found a clip yet of this specifically. Many people are asking how dwarfism is a disability.

JMFC!

[Attilatheblond]

131. The dwarf thing might be his butthurt re Gov Newsome towering over him during their 'handshake' wrestling match

We know he has a weird thing re size. I think that is how his billionaire puppeteers talked him into this obsession of taking Greenland and Canada. They probably told him how much bigger Russia is compared to the US.

[LeftInTX]

114. I wouldn't be surprised. There were height requirements for pilots.

My dad was one. He was only 5'6" and flew B-29's. Commercial liners had requirements back then. He couldn't get a job with the major carriers.

My brother was about the same height. He was a pilot for American. He flew 777's before he retired. They had obviously gotten rid of the height requirement.

They also had height requirements for stewardesses. I was too short.

_______

I can't believe Trump actually remembers this!

[happy feet]

147. Yes, he did

[underpants]

148. Someone found one bit and went with it. CNN did a good report on this

There’s an overarching statement on the website about how anyone can be an air traffic controller. That’s, I’d guess, is THE rock star job there. CNN reported that the website then spells out the strident steps and standards to get there.

[madaboutharry]

47. CNN: Dana Bash and guests are tearing Trump a new one.

They are as outraged as we are here. On MNSBC as well.

I think the press are done with being polite to these monsters.

[nolabear]

49. There's got to be a last straw, right? RIGHT???

[madaboutharry]

58. I don't know.

Just when you think there has been, along comes another straw.

[Blue_Roses]

76. I gotta remember this

great comeback!

[Disaffected]

77. Sadly true.

A haystack of straw.

[CrispyQ]

88. Maybe the 25th is looming closer than we think.

Trump's out of control. They pull all the strings with Vance. Orange man might not make it six months.

[Ilsa]

124. We can only hope. Whether they call him

a liar or demented, they need to point out the vulgar lies he spews.

[AntiFascist]

50. As always, turning the blame away from himself...

First he blames the helicopter pilot, then he goes on a tirade about the lack of "intellectual superiority" amongst flight controllers due to DEI hires. The real problem is the lack of intellectual superiority in the White House due to a lazy, moronic, senile president that has managed to cause panic, demoralizing every Federal employee including the flight controllers, with his bumbling, half-assed memorandums and illegal presidential orders.

[moondust]

60. Making white supremacists look really stupid.

[bronxiteforever]

52. The buck never stops with him

Rinse and repeat for a decade. We all knew this is him.
And compassion for the dead, we don’t do that anymore.

[3catwoman3]

136. Unless it's a buck he can put in his pocket.

[bronxiteforever]

138. Good one!

[surfered]

54. Based upon what Trump said, I think I figured out the cause.

The helicopter pilot was a DEI hire, the airline pilot took CRT in college, the air traffic controller was WOKE, sharks and windmills bear some responsibility, but overall, it was Biden’s fault because the Supreme Court ruled Trump was immune for all wrongdoing.

[rubbersole]

86. The pilots were eating the cats. They were eating the dogs...

[milestogo]

93. They were making bombs out of condoms.

[Aviation Pro]

55. I do not give one single fuck what Motherfucker has to say about this accident

Instead, I turn to my colleagues who've flown both airframes. Also, I went through the CRJ 200 type rating course so I know a thing or two about the 700 and about the circle-to-land maneuver they were executing into DCA.

Stop listening to Motherfucker.

[LeftInTX]

117. Isn't that standard in lots of airports? At O'Hare, we come from the west, yet we always end up over Lake Michigan and

turn.

On flight radar, they showed other planes using another runway to the south, that didn't require circling out to the east. Is that's what he's talking about?

[KnoxVol]

62. Just the first salvo in privatization

They’d like nothing more than to privatize everything, including ATC, and pay peanuts for the “geniuses” that this moron thinks will be flocking to this critical and high stress job.

Everything goes back to how these hucksters want to destroy the federal government.

[AverageOldGuy]

66. Careful!!!

After all, Trump owns an airplane and a helicopter. He knows more about flying than the Wright brothers and Captain Sullenberger. Combined.

[Michiblue]

68. Once he completed the scripted remarks . . .

. . . it seemed to devolve into a SNL parody. Unbelievable!

[FailureToCommunicate]

71. WTF?

"WTF?"

[littlemissmartypants]

78. Why is no one...

Talking About
1) his growing bald spot
2) his make up person hates him
3) his ozempic face?

[happy feet]

79. Thank-you

My body was shaking with rage---I had to take a walk to calm down and I'm still really angry at our country that put this orange bigoted, racist, misogynistic, pathological lying idiot in office. God help us.

MSNBC was initially gobsmacked, but quickly moved on to normalizing what they had just heard...I've turned everything off --- including Thom Hartman.

[PatSeg]

84. The FAA hires people for all kinds of positions

And air traffic controllers have to meet very stringent requirements. There is no way that they would hire and train someone who is deaf or visually impaired or intellectually disabled etc. for an air traffic controller. Though people with some disabilities may be qualified for other jobs at the FAA, most would not be able to do the job of air traffic controller. The training process is grueling and as many as 30% washout before training is complete.

Trump was just spewing absolute nonsense and taking the FAA DEI hiring policy out of context.

Meanwhile, I came across this:

The fact-checking website Snopes, however, pointed out that the language from the FAA’s website that Fox News highlighted, which discusses hiring of people with targeted disabilities, was present for all of Trump’s first term and had been published as early as 2013.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/faa-employees-disabilities-targeted-trumps-anti-dei-push/402444/

[happy feet]

89. Link to fact check on the orange one's despicable lying about FAA hiring individuals with disabilities policy -

of course, he's lying

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/faa-employees-disabilities-targeted-trumps-anti-dei-push/402444/

Shortly after a door blew out on a plane in January 2024, Fox News published an article headlined “FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities.” The original article seems to have been taken down (although a similar article is still up on its website), but it was republished by the New York Post and shared on social media at the time by Elon Musk, the leader of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency.

The fact-checking website Snopes, however, pointed out that the language from the FAA’s website that Fox News highlighted, which discusses hiring of people with targeted disabilities, was present for all of Trump’s first term and had been published as early as 2013.

Targeted disabilities are generally manifest, such as deafness, blindness, significant mobility impairments and intellectual disabilities.

“The implication that the policy is new, or that it stems from efforts that began under U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and President Biden, was demonstrably false,” Snopes investigative journalist Alex Kasprak wrote.

FAA said in a statement to Fox News for the 2024 article that: “The FAA employs tens of thousands of people for a wide range of positions, from administrative roles to oversight and execution of critical safety functions. Like many large employers, the agency proactively seeks qualified candidates from as many sources as possible, all of whom must meet rigorous qualifications that of course will vary by position.”

[state of stupid]

90. I did not waste my time listening to him. I will read about it from competent sources. They have tried to

forced us to listen to this ignorant son of a bitch since Obama's birth certificate. I have
been switching the channel or turning on anything else any time he is on since the nineties.

[vishnura]

97. Crash

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Fuck you and the horse you rode into town on!

[TBF]

98. I haven't even cracked open the wine advent calendar

I received before Christmas. I knew I would need it when these clowns took the reins.

[rubbersole]

102. Share, please.

Probably gonna need something stronger.

[Wounded Bear]

99. Figured it might be. Clicked in for about a minute of it. That was enough...nt

[JohnnyRingo]

100. I hear they were at the same height when the crash happened.

The helicopter could have stopped or gone up or down. All this tech talk has my head spinning.

...and JD says DEI kept good white people off the job.

They said there will be an investigation, but I don't know why at this point. Sheer genius has it all figured out.

[Jit423]

101. You speak for me.

FOX and the rest of the Trump sycophants need to be shamed forever about this as well as their support for the J6 insurrectionists. These two factors alone ought be a party line test for any appointment by Trump made after today. Tulsi should be on her way out!

[Nigrum Cattus]

113. It's only been 10 days !

And the republican't are killing people wholesale already.
Christian nationalists think this stuff is great.
Destroy everything so you can justify cutting taxes on the rich.

[Demovictory9]

120. Feels like a year..andvwe have 4.more yrs of ,this?

[Cheezoholic]

115. Groveling, the weak disgusting groveling and praise to their fearless leader by the other speakers.

Each and every one praising him before speaking about the tragedy. JFC what have we become

[Jacson6]

121. A new acronym S.C.A.R.F

Situation Crazy, Another Rambling Fool.

He is a dry drunkard.

[Historic NY]

133. I'm pissed at Butler Pa.

we never hear anything. Its like they set it up

[eShirl]

134. fuck that fucking fuck

[Ontheroad]

135. I'm so confused. Paraphrasing here ...

"It's all Biden's fault, under his policy of hiring cognitively impaired staff, he completely ruined airline safety!"

"So should we be afraid to fly then, and stay off planes?"

"No, we have the best airline safety in the world"

[spanone]

139. I sat and watched the entire thing. He is the most disturbed person I could ever imagine...

Made me sad that America has come to this.

My kids.

My grandkids.....

[nolabear]

141. I feel that. We're 90 miles south of Canada.

One of my sons and his wife have highly desirable jobs. Their sons are biracial and I’m terrified for them. I hope they survive and thrive somehow, even if it means running for cover.

Although I suspect Canada might have to build a wall…

[bullwinkle428]

142. I didn't think I was capable of the level

of hate I’ve been feeling since watching that THING as it happened.

[Lulu KC]

143. I just read this, which I think he said at the presser

"Trump said he would meet with some of the families affected by the crash. Asked by reporters whether he would visit the collision site, Trump responded: “What’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming? I don’t have a plan to do that, but I will be meeting with some people that were very badly hurt — with their family member, obviously.”

Source, Washington Post.

So, what, he's going to the mortuary? These people were hurt so badly that that is where you will find them, Bozo.

[Lulu KC]

144. OH AND "YOU WANT ME TO GO SWIMMING?"

I'd love a video of that! But really, just stand there with some other dignified people in a moment of silence and cheering on the team? That's what Joe would have done, and any halfway decent president before this "president."


Arggggghhhhhhh.

[Blue Owl]

145. Carville might be right -- the fat fuck might be punching himself out

[blogslug]

146. very demure. very mindful

[slightlv]

149. I discovered that whipped cream flavored vodka...

an excellent addition to my hot chocolate, now that it's so cold and rainy. Never used to drink much; since rump, I've been hitting it pretty hard, tho...

[bdamomma]

152. If there

is a higher power (and not felon) please take the devil incarnate away. He is such a POS.

[jls4561]

153. Trump is so racist...

He’ll blame a collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and a plane that has a black box in it on DEI.

[eppur_se_muova]

162. How long before they're changed to White Hawks and white boxes ? Betting pool, anyone ? nt

ETA: Would that make a good SNL skit ? Turnip starts raving about how the black boxes are faulty, and plans to show one on camera, then an aide brings out a white box, and suddenly, he changes his mind and starts to praise it without restraint ... ?

[Karasu]

157. Fascists can't govern.

[Dem4life1234]

158. Hideous inside and out

I miss when presidents had dignity and catered to all Americans instead of their trash ass base.

He's such a fucking liar.

[BradBo]

160. I've been listening to stories about Hitler.

Hitler ruined his own army through pshycotic anger, Trump is just dumb.

[BradBo]

161. Hitler was blinded by his own anger he felt he was justified about,Trump is just stupid.

Hitler ruined his own army's chances to even maybe have a stalemate through pshycotic anger, Trump is just stupid.Trump lived a spoiled life with not stress other than the horrifying pain of bone spurs.
By the way, where's the rest of Trumps ilk?

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

163. The Republican Party has a madman at the helm.

The United States could not have found a more loathsome individual than this tiresome piece of MAGA shit.

[HarryM]

166. That Fucking Fascist Fuck

Needs to fuck off, and rot in prison.
Castrate him, his family, his followers and their families, and anyone else who would consider him a good human being.
I don’t want them reproducing on our planet. It’s already full of enough pollution.

[Linda ladeewolf]

169. I've been

Screaming in my head since November. I go to bed screaming in my head and wake up earlier than I used to still screaming. I don’t dare take a drink, because I can drink myself to death. The first thing I check every morning is the “Is he dead yet?” Thread. It reminds me of my first marriage, I’d wake up wondering what kind of shit my, then husband would pull on me that day. God, maybe I should take a couple of dozen drinks before breakfast.

[nolabear]

173. How many of us check our media every morning with that

question? The day it’s true, and he’s worm fodder, the entire planet will celebrate. How many of us will grab onto anything we can just to outlast him, to be able to scream out the pent-up rage and fear and utter joy at his death? Ding-fucking-dong!

[Linda ladeewolf]

174. We could do a poll!

That might get us in trouble though!