A reporter for NBC really tied President Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE to the airplane crash in Canada.
A Delta airplane crash-landed on a snowy runway at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada on Monday afternoon.
The flight arrived from Minneapolis when it crashed, landed, and flipped the other way up. At the very least 15 persons are injured, together with one little one.
It’s unclear why the airplane crashed.
There aren’t any experiences of fatalities.
The pretend information media instantly tied the airplane crash, which occurred out of the country, to Trump and DOGE.
NBC’s Tom Costello tied the crash to the Trump Administration’s staffing cuts regardless that the airplane crash-landed in Toronto with Canadian air visitors management.
“I did need to, you realize, underscore — to select up on the dialog you had been simply having, although, when it comes to the current string of aviation incidents, Tom, that is gonna, but once more, elevate the priority about FAA staffing — air visitors management staffing.
“Now, it is a Canadian air visitors management tower and that is beneath Canadian authority as soon as it crosses the border. And but, as you realize, there was this discuss perhaps workers cuts on the FAA as part of President Trump’s effort to trim down the federal workforce. And but, as you additionally know, the FAA has been complaining for years that they’re understaffed in crucial job positions, particularly air visitors management. I used to be having a dialog with any person immediately about whether or not air visitors management in America is being affected by the workers cuts,” Tom Costello stated.
Costello really steered that all the airplane crashes and shut calls are Trump’s fault regardless that he has solely been in workplace for a number of weeks.
He continued, “Up to now, to not their data, and but different positions associated to sustaining crucial tools appeared to have been minimize, so that is going to feed into all of those current incidents and the security of — of the entire air visitors system goes to be very a lot part of the dialog as we go ahead, no less than on the facet of the nation of the border, I ought to say.”
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NBC’s Tom Costello ties Donald Trump, @ElonMusk, and @DOGE to the Delta Airways crash in Toronto, Canada: “[T]his goes but once more raised a priority about FAA staffing — air visitors management staffing. Now, it is a Canadian air visitors management tower and that is beneath Canadian… pic.twitter.com/KOecnP1A0n
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2025
It was reported earlier that the Trump Administration fired roughly 300 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) staff over the weekend as DOGE works to get rid of DEI and wasteful spending.
Video and partial transcription courtesy of NewsBusters
