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And this is a typical headline for stories about the press conference:

Washington plane crash live: Trump blames DEI hires for deadly collusion
President condemns Obama and Biden in press conference, claiming they put politics first

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/washington-plane-crash-video-trump-live-latest-news-w2zz5z2vh

More:

Trump threatens to fire diversity hires linked to crash

Trump issued an executive order titled “Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation” on his first day in office. It claimed the FAA under the Biden administration had sought to recruit and hire “individuals with serious infirmities that could impact the execution of their essential life-saving duties”.

The order directed the aviation agency to “return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring, as required by law”.

Trump said during Thursday’s press conference that he would look at firing any diversity hires who were linked to Wednesday night’s crash.

“I would say the answer is yes, if we find that people aren’t mentally competent,” he said.

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Trump blames workers with ‘intellectual disabilities’ for crash

President Trump shared several theories on what could have caused the midair collision, including that the Black Hawk helicopter had inadvertently flown into the path of the American Airlines passenger jet as it came into land.

He also claimed that diversity, equity and inclusion hiring policies had played a part.

“The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelt out on the agency’s website,” said Trump.

He added that the hiring programme allowed for air traffic controller positions to go to people with hearing and vision issues as well as paralysis, epilepsy and “dwarfism”.

“They have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses,” he said. “You can’t have regular people doing their job.”

Pressed again on the claim, Trump said there was no evidence yet that the collision should be blamed on diversity hires. “It just could have been,” he said.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/washington-plane-crash-video-trump-live-latest-news-w2zz5z2vh

He's a vicious moron who needs to be stopped NOW.