In the aftermath of a tragic aviation accident, President Trump controversially asserted that the Federal Aviation Administration's diversity initiatives were responsible for the incident. Even with limited information about the crash's cause, he proposed that DEI policies, tied to the Biden administration, led to the disaster. Trump's remarks, filled with strong opinions rather than concrete analysis, seemingly aimed to shift blame away from himself and leverage the public's attention on the tragedy to further his narrative against diversity practices in government staffing.
While you might question the sophistication of his analysis, Trump was correct about both the physics of the collision (namely, that it could have been avoided if the helicopter had gone either up or down) and the moral valence of the mass casualty event (bad, not good).
By midday today, without the benefit of any important conclusions about the cause of the crash, Trump adopted a different perspective. 'We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very strong opinions and ideas,' he told reporters in a rambling press conference.
The purpose of Trump's wild finger-pointing appears to be twofold: first, to avoid taking any blame for a disaster; and second, to exploit the tragedy while it is in the public's mind.
Lest that comment be dismissed as the half-formed musings of a president reacting in real time to a developing event, a few hours later Trump doubled down. In a live broadcast from the Oval Office, he signed an executive order that, in the words of an off-camera Vice President J. D. Vance, pinned responsibility for the crash on 'the Biden administration's DEI and woke policies.'
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