Idiot Trump just took credit for the safety of commercial aviation in 2017

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

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!

[rzemanfl]

1. He is crazy.

This is not all that unusual.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-last-7-years-you-were-more-likely-to-be-run-over-by-a-car-than-to-die-in-an-airline-crash/#6d725664428a

He will take credit for anything.

[teach1st]

2. Senate ignores Trump, moves bill that keeps FAA intact

Senate ignores Trump, moves bill that keeps FAA intact
Washington Post, 6/29/17

The Senate on Thursday ignored President Trump’s desire to lop more than 30,000 workers from the federal payroll, approving legislation that protects the Federal Aviation Administration from being split in two.

Trump endorsed with great fanfare this month a House plan to spin off air traffic controllers and close to 20,000 other workers into a nonprofit private corporation. Flanked by several former secretaries of transportation at a White House ceremony, Trump said: “The previous administration spent over $7 billion trying to upgrade the system and totally failed. Honestly, they didn’t know what the hell they were doing, a total waste of money.”

But an increasingly independent Senate, emboldened by Trump’s legislative failures, opted to disregard the White House push to privatize the controllers and those working on modernizing the aviation system.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Someone is bored

[crazycatlady]

4. When was the last time that man flew commercial?

I'd love to see him fly middle seat in coach on an airline like Spirit

[underpants]

5. Here's a Reuters story on it.

The Aviation Safety Network also reported there were no commercial passenger jet deaths in 2017, but 10 fatal airliner accidents resulting in 44 fatalities onboard and 35 persons on the ground, including cargo planes and commercial passenger turbo prop aircraft.

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1EQ17L

[Orrex]

6. If there's a God, then why hasn't He blasted this asshole to ashes yet?

[dalton99a]

7. Safest ever

[Ohiogal]

8. Next he's going to take credit for gravity.

[spanone]

9. of course he did.

[Snackshack]

10. Flying on a plane is still.

A 50/50 proposition...

[VMA131Marine]

11. In what sense?

We've never left one up there!

[Snackshack]

12. Simply put...

Only plane that matters is the one a person is on and planes come down in one of two ways.

[VMA131Marine]

13. Since 2002, if you have gotten on a commercial jetliner in the US

you have also gotten off it alive (even if you were on the one that landed in the Hudson).

[DesertRat]

14. Of course he did

And if there had been a crash he would have blamed it on the Clintons or Pres. Obama.