Over the weekend, he unleashed tariffs to spark trade wars that might damage the global economy as profoundly as the pandemic.
Trump typically sought to seize the spotlight after 67 people died in a collision between an army helicopter and a commercial airliner landing in Washington. So he brushed aside the grief of families even as bodies were being pulled from the Potomac River to exploit the tragedy for his own tribal battles, lashing out at political foes rather than seeking to soothe distress at a moment of national pain like recent predecessors.
His sordid performance at a press conference after the incident heightens fears that the world’s most important democracy might be unravelling before our eyes.
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Read MoreYet how grotesque to hear this man – born into great wealth and handed the most powerful platform on the planet – use deaths in an aviation accident to stir bigotry and stoke hatred against society’s most marginalised people. Trump has previously focused mainly on transgender citizens in his baleful efforts to unravel diversity initiatives. This time, he turned fire on people with disabilities – and as so often, sprayed out falsehoods from the presidential pulpit as he claimed the mid-air crash “could have been” caused by hirings that compromised safety.
And he hit out at how people with “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism all qualified for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, little runway.”
Soon it emerged that Trump was guilty of gross hypocrisy since efforts to recruit people with some disabilities for air traffic operations began under his first administration as part of a laudable initiative – dating back to a previous Republican presidency – to improve federal hiring of citizens with disabilities. And that language he sneered at with such disdain? It was posted on the FAA website throughout his first presidency.
But this is not just an issue about pay, nor about simply cutting surging benefit bills. It is about pride. It is about power. And it is about the ability of workplaces to break down corrosive barriers of fear and prejudice when people spend time together in factories, offices or shops.
Miles O’Brien, a pilot who lost his left arm in an accident, said his president’s words felt like a “gut punch”, pointing out the FAA had never lowered flying standards to foster inclusivity. “I went through every hoop and got over every bar an able-bodied individual would in order to be recertified to fly,” he said.
With grim inevitability, sidekicks and sycophants instantly mimic his stance. “Raise your hand if you want to be the person with a flight that’s led in by a blind dwarf with severe psychological and intellectual disabilities,” said one appalling toady on BBC’s Newsnight. Meanwhile, “anti-woke” crusaders such as Elon Musk revive the damaging use of “retard” as an insult. Truly, we live in dystopian times when billionaires inflame bigotry against some of the least powerful citizens in society.
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