{"id":10794,"date":"2025-02-01T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2025-02-01T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:07:23","slug":"quick-read-trump-intentionally-misinterprets-his-own-faa-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/01\/quick-read-trump-intentionally-misinterprets-his-own-faa-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Intentionally Misinterprets His Own FAA Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, you ass. Those are not disabilities that qualify you to be an air traffic controller. Those are disabilities that don&#8217;t exclude you from working at the FAA, an agency that employs 40,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Trump lie here:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Holds Press Briefing on Aviation Disaster\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShRYdYTtIx8?start=511&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nFrom Trump&#8217;s Jan 30th, 2025 briefing, &#8220;President Trump Holds Press Briefing on Aviation Disaster&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>8 minutes and 40 seconds into the video, he&#8217;s talking about what it takes to be an air traffic controller&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Where you have many, many planes coming into one target and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it. Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government as a matter of policy, as identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring, the FAA&#8217;s website states. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism all qualify for the position of a controller of airplanes&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notably, he was the person that put this policy into place in 2019.<br \/>\nNo, this policy didn&#8217;t factor into this airline disaster.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s his goal here? It seems like it&#8217;s to create discrimination and make people with disabilities that otherwise can do their jobs a pariah, but that can&#8217;t be right, can it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, you ass. Those are not disabilities that qualify you to be an air traffic controller. Those are disabilities that don&#8217;t exclude you from working at the FAA, an agency that employs 40,000 people. Watch Trump lie here: From Trump&#8217;s Jan 30th, 2025 briefing, &#8220;President Trump Holds Press Briefing on Aviation Disaster&#8221; 8 minutes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10802,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}