It is rare for Fryday to cover the same subject two weeks in a row, but President Donald J. Trump's pontifications regarding the tragedy over the Potomac deserve nothing less than a scathing response.
Even by Trump’s standards, which are minimal at best, his trying to mine political capital from the tragedy is ill-conceived, ill-judged, infantile and pathetic.
Attributing the crash to diversity in hiring as a possible reason for the aircraft colliding is, at the very least, premature and unworthy, considering investigations have yet to start.
They are also unnecessary, given they are not the opinions of an expert, are not supported by evidence (and are unlikely to be), and reflect poorly on the presidency when compassion and gravitas are needed.
To be fair to Trump, he did admit that he had no evidence to support his statement and that “it just could have been [diversity].” But why say it all? The President’s judgement and maturity must be called into question.
But Trump doesn’t stop there.
In the same statement, he suggests that the helicopter pilot might not have been wearing night-vision glasses. Again, this is unnecessary and premature. Why is Trump trying to explain this crash? And from what standpoint? He does not have the expertise, retrospect, or foresight for such utterances.
And he is achieving nothing.
But he does utter one truism in his statement. Well, to be more accurate, it was Vice-President Vance who said, “If you don’t have the best standards when you’re hiring, it means on the one hand, you’re not getting the best people in government.”
He is dead right there. He and Trump only have to look in their mirrors to see that.
1 comment:
Well said Fryday, i suspect we are in for many more Trump column inches from the next four years
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