How any intelligent person can support the biggest pathological liar to ever hold office amazes me. Yesterday's rants are concerning on a number of fronts but the aviation one is a classic example of how fucking idiotic/delusion this clown really is.
"Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news – it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!"
Trump apparently saw a news report saying that there were no aviation deaths worldwide in 2017, but the U.S. skies have been extraordinarily safe for years. Government data shows the last fatal commercial plane crash in the United States took place in early 2009, shortly after Barack Obama became president, so he could have laid claim to seven straight years of safe flying. But, even before then, the last major U.S. airline fatal crash took place in 2001, in the Bush administration.
Sanders told reporters that “the president has raised the bar for our nation’s aviation safety and security,” including “enhanced security measures to ensure safer commercial air travel.” But a U.S. president actually has very little to do with ensuring the safety of commercial aviation, although certainly his choice of regulators is important. But the decline in air crashes over the past decade to nil is mostly the result of better training and oversight of pilots and air traffic controllers and improvements made by jet and engine manufacturers.
In claiming credit for safe skies, Trump could be tempting fate. During the Clinton administration, Transportation Secretary Federico Peña assured the public that Valujet was safe after a crash that killed 110 people — and then weeks later the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the airline.
"Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news – it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!"
Trump apparently saw a news report saying that there were no aviation deaths worldwide in 2017, but the U.S. skies have been extraordinarily safe for years. Government data shows the last fatal commercial plane crash in the United States took place in early 2009, shortly after Barack Obama became president, so he could have laid claim to seven straight years of safe flying. But, even before then, the last major U.S. airline fatal crash took place in 2001, in the Bush administration.
Sanders told reporters that “the president has raised the bar for our nation’s aviation safety and security,” including “enhanced security measures to ensure safer commercial air travel.” But a U.S. president actually has very little to do with ensuring the safety of commercial aviation, although certainly his choice of regulators is important. But the decline in air crashes over the past decade to nil is mostly the result of better training and oversight of pilots and air traffic controllers and improvements made by jet and engine manufacturers.
In claiming credit for safe skies, Trump could be tempting fate. During the Clinton administration, Transportation Secretary Federico Peña assured the public that Valujet was safe after a crash that killed 110 people — and then weeks later the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the airline.
