Aircraft disaster: Donald Trump fails in his first crisis

Donald Trump goes over corpses. Such a sentence would usually be forbidden in journalistic texts, even in comments. But today he applies. The President of the United States of America instrumentalizes the catastrophe of Washington, in which 67 people died in a collision of an aircraft and a military helicopter, for his own political agenda.

So far, it is unclear how the collision and the crash on Wednesday evening. Trump also admits that. But when the 78-year-old stepped in front of the press in the White House on Thursday morning, he was not interested in that. Trump wanted to mark the strong leader and present guilty people. And that’s exactly what he did.

For him, security in aviation always came first. “Politics came first for Obama and biden. Her policy was terrible and her program was worse,” said Trump. The 47th President of the United States accused his officials that they had reduced the standards for air traffic controllers.

The Republican criticized the programs of the Federal Aviation Agency FAA, which aimed to “hire people with severe intellectual and mental disabilities”. People with limited hearing or vision, missing limbs, partial or complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disabilities and small growth all qualified for the position of a air traffic controller, he said.

A reporter asked Trump whether he believed that the collapse was caused by the diversity programs of the Federal Aviation Authority? His answer: “It could have been like that.” From the American President’s point of view, people with disabilities could be responsible for the greatest catastrophe in American aviation in the past two decades – even for Trump, this is a low point.

But it is one who should hardly surprise. Trump once made fun of the former and now deceased Republican Senator John McCain because he could no longer really raise his arms. He had broken it as a soldier in the Vietnam War. After that, he was captured where his injuries were not treated. McCain had to struggle with the consequences throughout his life.

In his first election campaign almost ten years ago, Trump also followed a reporter with disabilities on an open stage. Again and again Trump rushes against minorities, even on the tenth day of his second term. The mood in the country is pressed. First the devastating fire in Los Angeles, now the catastrophe of Washington. And of course many people ask themselves how such a collision could happen. Now it would need someone who brings together and donates comfort. Trump but rumbles around.

In the press conference, he complained that, after such tragedies, there were often years of investigations that don’t get out of anything. He wants to give answers 14 hours after a tragedy that nobody has at the moment. Trump kept going to such a bizarre appearance in his first term. For example, when he thought about whether one could not inject disinfectants in body to combat the coronavirus.

It was this erratic Trump, which the people at some point and which is why he was voted out in 2020. Now he is back in office, again he has to master a difficult situation. And obviously the president learned nothing about it. Donald Trump fails in his first big crisis back in the White House.