The 2 highest-ranking males tasked with investigating what seems to be the worst business jet crash within the U.S. in greater than 15 years are unqualified former Fox Information hosts who’re fully in over their heads.
Newly minted Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy—a actuality TV contestant turned congressman turned Fox Enterprise host with no transportation expertise—appeared like a deer in headlights throughout a information convention Thursday morning. He tried to supply updates on the late-night crash between a regional business jet and an Military Black Hawk helicopter that passed off because the jet ready to land at Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport, close to Washington, D.C. All 64 passengers on the business jet and three service members on the helicopter are assumed useless.
“Obviously, it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that,” Duffy mentioned on the information convention, in what is probably essentially the most “no shit, Sherlock” remark in historical past.
When a reporter later requested whether or not there’s an performing Federal Aviation Administration director—after Donald Trump’s co-president, Elon Musk, instructed the earlier head to resign—Duffy didn’t reply and continued to stroll away. Trump introduced in a while Thursday that he was appointing an “acting commissioner” to the FAA.
In the meantime, across the time of the crash, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth—a title the misogynistic degenerate and former Fox Information host ought to by no means have gotten—was on-air with fellow misogynistic degenerate and present Fox Information host Jesse Watters, declaring that “variety will not be our power.”
The truth is, on his fourth day on the job of overseeing the Pentagon, Hegseth twice appeared on his former community to yuk it up along with his former colleagues, in line with Media Issues for America’s Matthew Gertz.
Hegseth didn’t seem at Duffy’s information convention. As an alternative, he filmed a video message concerning the crash, saying the helicopter was piloted by a “fairly experienced crew” who had been conducting a “required annual night evaluation” with night-vision goggles, and that the army is “actively investigating” what went unsuitable.
“It’s a tragedy. A horrible loss of life,” Hegseth mentioned.
And the way did the nation’s new president reply? Shortly after the crash, Trump fired off an unhelpful Reality Social put up implying one thing nefarious had occurred and feeding into conspiracy theories earlier than a lot info was recognized about what had occurred.
“The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn,” he wrote. “Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!”
In a subsequent put up, Trump mentioned, “What a terrible night this has been. God bless you all!”
You’d count on extra from the president of the USA till you keep in mind Trump is nothing greater than a silly actuality TV host with no filter and a penchant for mendacity and spreading conspiracies.
The incompetence of the Trump administration is about to have real-life penalties.