Transportation Secretary is a real train wreck. He went on Fox to discuss the midair collision that happened last week and blamed the fact that the FAA uses the term “flight deck” instead of “cockpit.” No, really:
So, Shannon, the mission of DOT and FAA is safety. That has been the historic mission of this agency. And over the last four years, when they’re having a conversation in the last administration about changing names from cockpit to flight deck or notice-to-air men to notice-to-air mission because it’s too gender-specific, they’re focused on social justice and in the environment, racist roads and EVs, they’ve lost sight of the mission of this department. And so, we have no place for anything other than the best and the brightest. And so, when you look at what went wrong, you’ve got to look at the people that you have in place at the DOT and the FAA and the leadership and the direction that leadership gives them. And it’s been misplaced over the last four years. We’re back on mission. We’re focused on safety and having the best people delivering that safety. And I don’t care your race, your religion, your sex, your sexual preference. That doesn’t matter. Just the best and the brightest.
