Stephen A's Take: Trump, what is your real plan? DEI didn't cause the DC plane crash.

The first order of businesses to get in the Trumpet. I'm not gonna even call it politics. I'm gonna call it social commentary because that's what I feel it is, and that's where I need to get started.

First, the news.

The tragic news out of Washington, DC, Wednesday night, the plane crash between an American Airlines commuter jet and a black Hawk helicopter. All sixty seven people aboard the American Eagle flight and Army helicopter were killed when an aircraft collided over the Potomac River. Victims on the American Airlines flight included Russian Olympic figure skaters, youth skaters, and their parents, just to name a few. The cause of the collision

So, as you know, last week, long before the crash, I signed an executive order restoring our highest standards for air traffic controllers and other important jobs throughout the country. So it was very interesting about a week ago, almost upon entering office, I signed something last week that was an executive order, very powerful and restoring the highest standards of air traffic controllers and others. By the way, then my administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety.

It doesn't matter what they.

Look like, how they speak, who they are. It matters intellect, talent, the word talent. They have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses. You can't have regular people doing that job. They won't be able to do it, but will restore faith in American air travel. I'll have more to say about that. I do want to point out that various articles that

That is amazing, And then.

It says FAA says people with severe disabilities the most underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want them in, and they want them they can be air traffic controllers.

I don't think so. This was.

In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program.

Now, before I get to my comments, because I got a lot to say about that we just saw, I want to play some sound from New York Senator Ruck Schumer reacting to Trump's comments.

Take a listen.

I just watched President Trump's news conference. Listen. It's one thing for Internet pungits to spew off conspiracy theories. It's another for the President of the United States to throw out idle speculation as bodies are still being recovered and families still being notified. It just turns your stomach.

Amen, Amen, and let me stay for the record. I'm not one that usually agrees with Chuck Schumer. I don't like a lot of things he says. It does personally because I think a lot of it is pomping circumstance and not much to do about anything. Half the time, I know how knowledgeable and formidable he is and has been in the United States Center, but nevertheless, there are things that I disagree with him about this.

Is not one of them.

To say that President Trump was utterly irresponsible in the rhetoric.

That he viewed is an understatement.

You don't know if DEI had anything to do with it, He admitted he didn't know. Well, do what the hell you say it for? Watch you open your mouth. Why would you do that? Because you see the more he opens his mouth about stuff like that, and the quickness with which he's willing to throw in DEI, it's crystallizing what ultimately your gender in terms of your administration is

Nobody wants to take into account.

As I reiterated and regurgitated just the other day, how did it come about? How was affirmative action? How did affirmative action ever come about? How did stuff like the Rooney Rule ever come about? How did DEEI come about?

So they stood up and.

They raised their hands and they said, we're listening, we want to hear you. And what they did is they engaged in overkill. Let's admit it. Let's call it what it is. We're talking business now. Overkilled ensued and what happened is you saw corporate America and beyond trying to make amends for its negligence, for its unfair its unfairness, the inequities that it had exercised.

And they said, we want to make up for it.

So they went in and overload, and they poured money in resources into certain things in.

Some cases DEI.

And what you're seeing now is the scaling back of that because the momentum is died down and you no longer have to prioritize things the way that you once did.

You feel me, air and you feel me Mikey, hear what I'm saying.

And as a result, now you're saying, let's get back to normalcy per se. Let's not engage in overkill, let's not be a bit too excessive, let's not just throw money against the wall. Money, by the way, most folks don't have. And now you're seeing the scaling back of it.

Authenticated or okayed. But we've always had.

Immigrants coming to this country, and we've always benefited from their participation in this country, in building this nation.

So this is not new.

What happens is you have an inordinate amount of bodies, and because you have that inordinate amount of bodies, you're saying, Okay, that has to stop because it's costing the tax.

Payer billions of dollars.

It's very simple when you look at it, how it's handled is where the crime kicks in. Because when you handle it the way that the Trump administration is handling it. We want the most qualified, we want the smartest, we want this, we want that. What you're really saying is we want white dominance. Again, that's what you're really saying,

That's what I'm saying, not an accident.

The nerve.

Derve Hell was Taluk qualified to be president? If we want to get if we want to get down to the bare bones of it I'm talking about first go round, was he wasn't Hillary more qualified? Just qualifications. I'm not talking about who you prefer you vote for. I'm just

Public safety, no doubt about that.

But what you had to bring up DEI for every white person was qualified.

Every white person that got that job deserved that job. Every white person that wasn't high.

Through DEI was exceptional and the best and the brightest.

You ain't got any black.

People, any Hispanic people that you want to sprinkle.

Into the mix. Could you do that? Could you do that?

No? You cannot, And I know why because Trump is catering to his base. See a difference between the magarite and the rest of the people who voted for Trump. And where Trump has an opportunity to really cement a legacy and to push the Republican Party forward in a positive direction is if he remembers how he got elected. Margarite is magarit. They gonna vote for him regardless.

But it was those.

Swing voters that couldn't convince themselves to cast at the ballot for Kamala Harris that ultimately won him the election and what has he done since, given executive orders all over the place. Just today he sat up there and talked about tariffs are coming away of Mexico and Canada this weekend. We know what other executive orders he's given as it pertains to being identified as a man or woman and know in between all.

Of this stuff.

And I'm not saying I got a problem with some of the stuff he's did.

Some I did some I did it.

I ain't got time to get in all of that today. What I'm saying is we got to know what he's doing. Fifty seven percent of the American population a minimum, is white. He's making sure he caters to them because somehow, some way, like Chris Rock pointed out in his stand up comedic routine on Netflix, he said white folks were trying to overthrow a government that day.

Run It's what he said. But if you trump, here's the warning.

I'm reading from an article by Jason Riley Jason L.

Riley in the Wall Street Journal.

I want to read a couple of paragraphs that he wrote in this article because I want you to understand what he's saying. When I brought up the part about Kamala Harris difference between Maggie Wright and swing voters. Here's what Jason Riley said. The distinction matters. Trump loyalists don't care if the president part is January sixth protesters who assault the police officers after he condemned George Floyd protesters who assaulted police officers.

It doesn't care that. It doesn't concern them that Robert F.

Kennedy Junior, the President's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, declared as recently as twenty twenty three that quote, there's no vaccine that's safe and effective end quote. They're not bothered that he yanked security protection for former key advisors involved in planning the lead through drone strike on Iran's leading terrorists, Cassim Solomone or Solomone, not because it's no longer needed, but because he simply doesn't like them anymore.

Quote.

The threat to anyone involved in President Trump's strike on Solomoni is persistent.

It's real.

Senator Tom Cotton, Republican ad Varkasas said, chairman of the Intelligence Committee and a strong Trump. That's what he said on Fox News Sunday last weekend. More all of this, it's not just about these men who helped President Trump carry out his policy in the first term. It's about their family and friends, and it's in bystanders every time they're in public. It's also about the president being able to get good people and get good advice. He ain't listening.

Now we're getting into the hearts of the real issues.

My man Roland Martin was on his show just the other day talking about civil rights legislation in nineteen sixty four and how you've got folks within the Trump administration trying to roll that back sixty years of progress. That's what you have minorities in this country fearing right now. That was agenda all along, and they're pointing to these things.

And it's making it and it should.

Make the Democratic Party stand up and say wait a minute, now, Now these.

Are issues you can fight for, because these are issues that.

The American people can get behind. And what you have to do if you're a Democratic party is be centered thinking as in center left. Prioritize the economy, prioritize national security, security, prioritize foreign relations, and forget all that other stuff. We got battles in this country that we have to fight. Why am I giving this advice because some of y'all have walked around trying to castigate people like me. Non't remind you of who the hell I am. Okay, I

You have to be.

All the Republicans vote with one another, all the Democrats vote with one another. Nobody has to do any freaking work. You don't even have to read the policies. All you have to do is ask your sister, how did the Republicans vote?

Vote the opposite? How did the Democrats vote? Vote the opposite? That's all you have to do. That's why you.

Got folks in the eighties still in office. And I'm not engaging in agism here, I'm just speaking real. The hell you doing on Capitol Hill? You really think I believe you reading four or five hundred pages a legislation?

You think I believe you putting the network. But you vote anyway because you don't have to do any work.

All you have to do is take the side that you're on and vote against the other side that ain't serving our country.

That's why the country.

Pissed off, That's why they put somebody like Trump in office, because they sick and tired of the cesspool that is our nation's capital. And if you're the Democrats, you've got an opportunity to say that, although Trump is different and he's a political the dominance with which he's governing over his first two weeks on the job is antithetical and very detrimental to us as a nation.

You can say that and as a real so return to some level of normalcy. But what is that.

You're the Democratic Party? Where's your voice? Who's your voice? Me calling you out about it? Has you thinking or has you acting like I'm the enemy. I'm trying to help. I don't want you to see you get your ass kicked in another election.

I don't want to see you losing the mid terms.

I don't want to see you lose four years from now in advance with JD. Vance or Marco Rubio or somebody being the next president of the United States just because they're opposite you. I want the best candidate for the country to win. That cannot happen. That can't happen if you have no voice and you have no.

Face for your party. I doubt I'll ever run. It's not me.

I live a pretty good life and I don't want to ruin it by getting involved in politics. But I gotta tell y'all something. The Democratic Party looks so pathetic after this election.

I might entertain running. I just might change my mind one day. I don't I doubt it, but I might because how much would it take to beat y'all? And Trump can't run again?

He's done, regardless of what some representatives want, a third term for him, kissing his ass at every turn?

Will you do your job? Please do your job.

Keep been back in the office for two weeks, and you got one representative caller for him to get a third term, and you got another representative talking about.

Him being put on Mount Rushmore. Will you do your damn job? Is that too hard? Just do your job. Look at our country, look at.

The state that's in Understand what policies may work and what might not work, what's to the best.

Interest or what's to the detriment the country? And make that damn decision. Is it really that hard?

Do you have to get on your knees and kiss his ass at every turn? Did you see the crash? After that happened and Trump handed it over to one of the aviation executives, I forget his name or its title for the moment, don't matter every other word he was saying, I want to thank Donald Trump. I want to thank Donald Trump. I want to thank Don Trump. Thank you for your Lisia. Shut the hell up and do your job. How much ass kissing must y'all do before your breath starts smelling like shit?

I mean, come on, it's ridiculous. Just do your job. Do your job. If you Trump, that means you too.

Swing voters got you elected, my man, and they got you elected because they couldn't vote for Kamala Harris. But you promised them to address inflation. You promise them to address our borders, promise them to address national security. You promise the thriving economy, you promise.

The peace in the streets.

If your actions are to lean on DEI every chance you get to point out some supposed discrepancy between white individuals and minorities who got jobs as it pertains to their qualifications and their intellect and their resume and their accomplishments. You don't think that's gonna compromise peace. You don't think that's gonna create chaos. Be careful, mister Trump. Be careful, President Trump, Be careful. Society is only as strong as

Enough people from all different facets.

Of this country voted for you because they believed that you were going to do a better job at galvanizing our nation than the left ever. Could you owe it to all of us to do that, not to alienate us because you're trying to roll back stuff from sixty civil rights legislation from sixty years that was black folks, that was minority folks access to capital. That is what civil rights legislation did for us, amongst many other things.

To attack that in any way, it's sacrilegious.

And if you're the left, you remember what the hell I said and you pounced on it like a bunch of piranhas. Hispanics in this country make up more than seventeen eighteen percent of the population. Black folks make up thirteen to fourteen percent of the population, and the Hispanic populace is growing.

If you lost them, get them back.

Know what Cubans, Dominicans, Venezuela is, Guatemalians and Mexicans, Puerto Ricans.

And blacks.

No what they mean in this country and what they bring to this country, and remind folks of that instead of getting caught up in your frivolous stuff on the extreme left that compromised your power in the nation's capital. Get it together. I'm sick of tired of people listening to me and talking to me, and by the way, that includes people that work for me. So I'm sick of tired everybody acting like I'm somebody that's some right winger. I have conservative views. I have liberal views. Trust me,