In his first day in office President Trump ended DEI programs with an executive order. Earlier this week he said the Federal Aviation Administration’s diversity efforts could be to blame for the Wednesday plane crash on the Potomac. A Virginia Tech political science professor says that sends the wrong message. WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno has more.
During a White House briefing on Wednesday night’s midair collision between a military chopper and an American Airlines jetliner, President Trump made the allegation the crash could have been caused by diversity hiring and lowered standards. As WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno reports a Tech political science professor says that was a horrible thing to say.
