Trump could be making a major mistake today, as big as Obama's "beer gate" fiasco.

[Zincwarrior]

can't read your link, I don't subscribe.

Aggressive ignorance is unbecoming.

 

[jc456]

Aggressive ignorance is unbecoming.

stay out of paywalls.

 

[jc456]

Evidently they had 50,000 applications last year but only 1,000 passed all qualifications to get to training. Its harder to become a traffic controller than a pilot and its completely merit based.

FAA lawsuit claims agency discriminated against air traffic controller applicants on the basis of race

A class action lawsuit filed against the Federal Aviation Administration accused the agency of hiring air traffic controllers solely based on race, not merit.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[TimFitz]

Once AGAIN, Trump is right.

Quoting Trump’s pathetic performance changes nothing.

He chose to inject his trademark race baiting into what should have been a e routine expression of shock and sympathy in the wake of a disaster.

But decency is not a Trump trait.

So, we got race baiting, fact free “analysis” (from an uninformed moron), and chest beating talking about himself.

It was a disgrace to the victims. A disgrace to the idea of Presidential leadership. And a disgrace to his office and his country.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Was the control staffing short? Was the audio exchange correct? Did the controller fail? Why were they short staffed? DEI

So you made it up. Glad we cleared that up. Have a nice day.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Quoting Trump’s pathetic performance changes nothing.

He chose to inject his trademark race baiting into what should have been a e routine expression of shock and sympathy in the wake of a disaster.

But decency is not a Trump trait.

So, we got race baiting, fact free “analysis” (from an uninformed moron), and chest beating talking about himself.

It was a disgrace to the victims. A disgrace to the idea of Presidential leadership. And a disgrace to his office and his country.

The FAA chose to interject DIVERSITY into their hiring criteria.
So then they DESERVE such scrutiny.

 

[otto105]

FAA lawsuit claims agency discriminated against air traffic controller applicants on the basis of race

A class action lawsuit filed against the Federal Aviation Administration accused the agency of hiring air traffic controllers solely based on race, not merit.

www.foxbusiness.com

Yeah, if we don't hire all the white people first there has to be a problem lawsuit.

 

[Zincwarrior]

stay out of paywalls.

In the aftermath of the deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport, Trump held an extraordinary news conference during which he speculated on the cause of the accident. At length, he attacked former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for imposing what he called “a big push to put diversity” that he said weakened the Federal Aviation Administration.


Reading from a 2024 Fox News report — which he incorrectly identified as being two weeks old — Trump listed conditions that he suggested disqualify people from being air traffic controllers: “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”
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“Can you imagine?” he asked. “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress.” He suggested that it was wrong for anyone with those conditions to qualify “for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway.”

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But here’s the rub: During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.

The facts​

In the news conference, Trump said Obama weakened standards and “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best, to extraordinary. … Then they changed it back — that was Biden.”

Trump’s claim was repeated in an executive order Trump signed Thursday that ordered a review of aviation safety: “During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence.”
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That’s false. In his first term, Trump left the standards unchanged.
For air traffic controllers, the Obama administration in 2013 instituted a new hiring system that introduced a biographical questionnaire to attract minorities, underrepresented in the controller corps. The program was criticized, such as in a Fox News report in 2015, as making it harder for more skilled applicants to get hired as controllers.
But Trump, in his first term, left the policy in place, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by Mountain States Legal Foundation. The case was due to go to trial this year.

Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”

 

[jc456]

In the aftermath of the deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport, Trump held an extraordinary news conference during which he speculated on the cause of the accident. At length, he attacked former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for imposing what he called “a big push to put diversity” that he said weakened the Federal Aviation Administration.


Reading from a 2024 Fox News report — which he incorrectly identified as being two weeks old — Trump listed conditions that he suggested disqualify people from being air traffic controllers: “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”
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“Can you imagine?” he asked. “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress.” He suggested that it was wrong for anyone with those conditions to qualify “for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway.”

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But here’s the rub: During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.

The facts​

In the news conference, Trump said Obama weakened standards and “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best, to extraordinary. … Then they changed it back — that was Biden.”

Trump’s claim was repeated in an executive order Trump signed Thursday that ordered a review of aviation safety: “During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence.”
Advertisement

That’s false. In his first term, Trump left the standards unchanged.
For air traffic controllers, the Obama administration in 2013 instituted a new hiring system that introduced a biographical questionnaire to attract minorities, underrepresented in the controller corps. The program was criticized, such as in a Fox News report in 2015, as making it harder for more skilled applicants to get hired as controllers.
But Trump, in his first term, left the policy in place, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by Mountain States Legal Foundation. The case was due to go to trial this year.

Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”

"Not normal": Air traffic controllers were stretched thin during D.C. crash, per report

An air traffic controller was manning multiple positions at the time of the crash, per an FAA report

news.yahoo.com

 

[initforme]

Time to start actually paying air traffic controllers.

 

[jc456]

So you made it up. Glad we cleared that up. Have a nice day.

made up what? Quote what I made up!!!!

 

[jc456]

Yeah, if we don't hire all the white people first there has to be a problem lawsuit.

"Not normal": Air traffic controllers were stretched thin during D.C. crash, per report

An air traffic controller was manning multiple positions at the time of the crash, per an FAA report

news.yahoo.com

 

[Mac-7]

In the aftermath of the deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport, Trump held an extraordinary news conference during which he speculated on the cause of the accident. At length, he attacked former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for imposing what he called “a big push to put diversity” that he said weakened the Federal Aviation Administration.


Reading from a 2024 Fox News report — which he incorrectly identified as being two weeks old — Trump listed conditions that he suggested disqualify people from being air traffic controllers: “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”
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“Can you imagine?” he asked. “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress.” He suggested that it was wrong for anyone with those conditions to qualify “for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway.”

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But here’s the rub: During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.

The facts​

In the news conference, Trump said Obama weakened standards and “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best, to extraordinary. … Then they changed it back — that was Biden.”

Trump’s claim was repeated in an executive order Trump signed Thursday that ordered a review of aviation safety: “During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence.”
Advertisement

That’s false. In his first term, Trump left the standards unchanged.
For air traffic controllers, the Obama administration in 2013 instituted a new hiring system that introduced a biographical questionnaire to attract minorities, underrepresented in the controller corps. The program was criticized, such as in a Fox News report in 2015, as making it harder for more skilled applicants to get hired as controllers.
But Trump, in his first term, left the policy in place, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by Mountain States Legal Foundation. The case was due to go to trial this year.

Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”

Which targeted disabilities?

People in wheelchairs, ok

People with emotional disturbances, no

 

[otto105]

"Not normal": Air traffic controllers were stretched thin during D.C. crash, per report

An air traffic controller was manning multiple positions at the time of the crash, per an FAA report

news.yahoo.com

So, it's probably time for Shitler! to implement a hiring freeze then, right.

 

[debbiedowner]

That is a straight up lie. He claimed the FAA is hiring mentally disabled people to be air traffic controllers.

Well if they did it was going on during his first term too. The DEI program was set up before Biden.

 

[Edgetho]

Bottom line? That was Biden's FAA/DOT that dropped the ball.

Those aircraft weren't shot down by missiles, they weren't brought down by MiG 35's or an Su-57, or drones or birds or a hail storm, a lightning strike, a fuel or electrical problem.......

They were brought down by the one thing dimocrap scum do better than anybody else on the Planet --

INCOMPETENCE.

You Cultish dimocrap scum in here can scream all you want, you can tell all the lies you want but People 'get' you now.

It's over and it's only going to get worse for you.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of scumbags.

Look at what's going on in Palisades? Or not. The DISGUSTING FILTH won't talk much about it because it's typically dimocrap sleazy.

Incompetence. It's all dimocraps have

 

[jc456]

Yeah, if we don't hire all the white people first there has to be a problem lawsuit.

Exhausted air traffic controllers are making more mistakes on the job amid a stretched workforce doing 10-hour workdays and 6-day workweeks, report says

In a set of complaints reviewed by The New York Times, there were no fewer than seven reports where controllers were found sleeping while on the job.

www.businessinsider.com

The problem was compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, when a slew of controllers left their roles and the FAA scaled back on the training of new controllers due to the strict health guidelines that were in place at the time, according to The Times.

 

[jc456]

So, it's probably time for Shitler! to implement a hiring freeze then, right.

he can utilize the military air traffic controllers to alleviate the shortage from Xiden's team.

 

[jc456]

In the aftermath of the deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport, Trump held an extraordinary news conference during which he speculated on the cause of the accident. At length, he attacked former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for imposing what he called “a big push to put diversity” that he said weakened the Federal Aviation Administration.


Reading from a 2024 Fox News report — which he incorrectly identified as being two weeks old — Trump listed conditions that he suggested disqualify people from being air traffic controllers: “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”
Advertisement

“Can you imagine?” he asked. “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress.” He suggested that it was wrong for anyone with those conditions to qualify “for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway.”

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But here’s the rub: During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.

The facts​

In the news conference, Trump said Obama weakened standards and “I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best, to extraordinary. … Then they changed it back — that was Biden.”

Trump’s claim was repeated in an executive order Trump signed Thursday that ordered a review of aviation safety: “During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence.”
Advertisement

That’s false. In his first term, Trump left the standards unchanged.
For air traffic controllers, the Obama administration in 2013 instituted a new hiring system that introduced a biographical questionnaire to attract minorities, underrepresented in the controller corps. The program was criticized, such as in a Fox News report in 2015, as making it harder for more skilled applicants to get hired as controllers.
But Trump, in his first term, left the policy in place, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by Mountain States Legal Foundation. The case was due to go to trial this year.

Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/business/faa-short-on-air-traffic-controllers/index.html

Despite a surge in hiring last year, air traffic control stations nationwide are still about 3,000 controllers short, according to new Federal Aviation Administration numbers.

The numbers, first reported by CNN, show the challenge of filling the gap that led to flight delays and concerns that fatigue contributed to a series of near collisions on runways last year. The shortage is a concern of airlines, controllers, and watchdogs like the inspector general who last summer concluded the agency “made limited efforts to ensure adequate controller staffing at critical air traffic control facilities.”

The FAA has about 11,500 controllers who are either fully certified or have reached the stage in training where they can work independently, known as Certified Professional Controller In Training. The staffing plans developed by the FAA and the union representing air traffic controllers calls for more than 14,600 controllers to fully staff towers and centers.

 

[jc456]

Well if they did it was going on during his first term too. The DEI program was set up before Biden.

prove it? Post a link that Trump used DEI.

Did Trump encourage people with disabilities to apply for jobs, sure, but did he relax standards to include them? That's your task demofk!!!!