Even as investigators work to determine the cause of Monday’s dramatic Delta jet crash at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media have already reached their conclusion: Blame Trump.
Leading the charge, of course, is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has been breathlessly pushing the claim that cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the Trump administration were responsible for the incident. “To those asking whether it matters that the plane’s destination was in Canada: The flight took off from Minneapolis,” Schumer tweeted, insisting that FAA oversight was somehow to blame.
The problem? It’s a completely false narrative.
For starters, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out, no air traffic controllers or safety-critical personnel were fired. “No air traffic controllers nor any professionals who perform safety-critical functions were terminated,” Leavitt stated, pushing back against a sloppy Associated Press report that cited an alleged FAA specialist claiming he had been harassed by the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) so-called “official Facebook page” before being fired—despite the fact that DOGE does not have a Facebook page.
The media-driven hysteria about FAA staffing changes has also been directly debunked by someone who actually knows what he’s talking about: Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian. During an interview on CBS Mornings, co-anchor Gayle King attempted to set him up to blame Trump, asking whether the “cuts” at the FAA worried him.
Bastian’s response was unequivocal:
“The cuts do not affect us, Gayle. I’ve been in close communication with the Secretary of Transportation. I understand that the cuts at this time are something that are raising questions, but the reality is there’s over 50,000 people that work at the FAA, and the cuts I understand were 300 people and they were in noncritical safety functions.
The Trump administration has committed to investing deeply in terms of improving the overall technologies that are used in the air traffic control systems and modernizing the skies, they’ve committed to hiring additional controllers and investigators and safety investigators. So no, I’m not concerned with that at all.”
Translation? The FAA’s staffing decisions had absolutely nothing to do with what happened in Toronto.
And yet, the Democrats and their media allies won’t let the facts get in the way of a good anti-Trump narrative. Never mind that the crash involved a Delta jet landing in Canada, under Canadian aviation authorities. Never mind that the FAA’s role had no bearing on the aircraft’s ability to handle adverse weather conditions on a foreign runway.
But that’s the pattern: whenever something goes wrong, find a way to blame Trump. Even when the facts don’t add up, even when experts refute the narrative, and even when the reality is that the administration is actually investing in improving aviation safety.
🚨🔥CBS Propagandist Gayle King gets real-time fact-check from Delta CEO after attempting to implicate the Trump admin in Toronto crash:
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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 19, 2025
