Bill Maher Torches Trump For DC Crash: 'Maybe Keep The People Who Talk To The Aeroplanes'
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The "Real Time" host slammed Trump and Elon Musk for gutting a key aviation safety committee and getting the former FAA head to resign ahead of the crash.
Bill Maher can’t believe President Donald Trump’s second term is only “11 fucking days old.”
In his “Real Time” monologue on Friday, the host tore into Trump and his newfound confidante, Elon Musk, in light of Wednesday’s deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. That night, a military helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet, killing 67 people.
Maher noted that Trump was initially correct in stating immediately after the crash that its cause was still unclear, only for the MAGA chief to blame federal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives “10 seconds later.”
The cause of the mid-air collision is still unknown, but Maher called the ongoing blame game “frustrating.”
“Everything is just such an overreaction,” he added. “Nothing ever stops in the middle. DEI, we overreached with that, now we have an accident like this, and Trump’s view is, ‘Well, the air traffic controller was distracted because he was a Haitian eating a cat at the time.’”