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I like the bit at the end where he claims that his own plane uses a completely different air traffic control system from another country because it is better. https://t.co/8xPb5Kd8IV

— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) February 6, 2025

Why does anybody even listen to Trump? If he’d said his plane runs on a special fuel that comes from a foreign country that you can’t get here but it makes his plane more powerful than a locomotive and faster than a speeding bullet, it would be as nonsensical.

And you can’t hook satellites to land? So Starlink doesn’t work? Nor do the communication systems with the ISS and all American spacecraft since Mercury? Nor all the (now obsolete but once fully functional) satellite TV receivers? The satellites that provide telecommunications and GPS and weather data and surveillance information? 

Somebody give Grandpa a cup of cocoa and put him to bed.

But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment.

Which company does he want to give that contract to? And what kickback is he expecting?

And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would've, bells would've gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn't stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would ve gone off. They have 'em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would've just never happened if we had the right equipment.

Or maybe enough controllers in the tower to properly monitor all the equipment. Because Elmo can’t even design a self-parking car. He sure as shit ain’t coming up with an AI to replace air traffic controllers.

And one of things that's gonna be, l'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, l use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I'm landing in New York and I'm using a sys— I won't tell you what country, but l use a system from another country because the captain says 'This thing is so bad, it's so obsolete! And we can't have that.

What’s obsolete is the capacity of the system, thanks to Reagan and the massive increase in air travel since he fired all the controllers. Or maybe it’s the fact that we went 16 years without an airplane crash, and within days after you fire head people and tell everybody “DEI” means “your job is gonna DIE!”, we have a major collision and a jet falls out of the sky?

At the very least, the buck stops on your desk, buddy. But you senselessly blame “DEI” and say the solution is “Infrastructure Week.” Which is something you talked about for 48 months last time, and never delivered. So excuse me if I don’t hold my breath waiting for “Infrastructure Week II: Electric Boogaloo.”

Trump Announces U.S. Will Relocate Panama Canal To American Soilhttps://t.co/PkIEWAlK7t pic.twitter.com/v0Ld4qua6R

— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 6, 2025

I mean, when you can’t tell the difference between The Onion and the news, you know times is bad.