Trump Intentionally Misinterprets His Own FAA Policy
No, you ass. Those are not disabilities that qualify you to be an air traffic controller. Those are disabilities that don’t exclude you from working at the FAA, an agency that employs 40,000 people.
Watch Trump lie here:
From Trump’s Jan 30th, 2025 briefing, “President Trump Holds Press Briefing on Aviation Disaster”
8 minutes and 40 seconds into the video, he’s talking about what it takes to be an air traffic controller…
…Where you have many, many planes coming into one target and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it. Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government as a matter of policy, as identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring, the FAA’s website states. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism all qualify for the position of a controller of airplanes…
Notably, he was the person that put this policy into place in 2019.
No, this policy didn’t factor into this airline disaster.
What’s his goal here? It seems like it’s to create discrimination and make people with disabilities that otherwise can do their jobs a pariah, but that can’t be right, can it?