Summary
After a mid-air collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Eagle flight near Washington, D.C., Trump speculated on Truth Social, questioning why the crash wasn’t avoided.
Billionaire Bill Ackman suggested terrorism, though the FBI found no evidence of criminal activity.
Officials confirmed 67 people were onboard but have not reported fatalities. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged patience as rescue efforts continue.
Trump’s comments have fueled conspiracy theories despite the lack of confirmed details.
Pasting my reply regarding Trumps comments from another thread:
The questions he’s asking aren’t wrong to ask. The real problem, IMO, is that he’s the president and can’t simply post those questions publicly. He’s an idiot, though, so this is what we get.
But seriously, he also asks why the Black Hawk pilot didn’t do ANYTHING to avoid a known flight path and I’ve asked the same thing.
As for Ackman: he’s just another idiot guessing.
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Buddy that’s you. You’re in charge of the army. You could have prevented it.
Sssh, you don’t want him making changes to the army. The army might be your last line of defence against this maniac.
“I prefer pilots who don’t crash.” Trump, probably.
To be fair, if I were asked, “crashing or non-crashing?”, on my way through the terminal, I would also prefer non-crashing.
Your “commander in chief” , folks…fucking farce.
I mean the crash did look almost intentional but as a president he shouldn’t be spreading fear but that’s his core base.
I hope Trump guts aviation safety and planes start crashing left and right like they used to. Make air crashes great again.
People won’t stand for it and the blame will rest with Republicans.
He already did that, last week.
