Kimmel: Trump’s a ‘Deeply Stupid Man’ for Blaming Potomac Crash on DEI
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KIMMEL: “Tonight our thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones in the horrible plane crash last night in Washington, D.C. I’m sure you know, around 9:00 P.M. last night, an American Airlines flight from Kansas collided with a Blackhawk army helicopter. There were no known survivors. It was the deadliest air crash in 24 years, so during a 40-minute press conference this morning, President Trump spent two of those minutes offering words of comfort and sympathy to the victims and their families, and 38 minutes blaming Biden and Pete Buttigieg and diversity. I’m not really sure Donald Trump knows he’s the president. Remember when he waited 10 minutes after the wildfires started here in L.A. before he started blaming DEI? Well, I guess he learned from that lesson because this time, he slept on it, and then started pointing that little orange nub.
(Laughter)
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Reporter: “You today blamed the diversity elements, but then told us you weren’t sure the controllers made any mistakes, you then said perhaps the helicopter pilots were the ones who made the mistakes — “
Trump: “Yeah. It’s all under investigation.”
Reporter: “I understand that. That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
Trump: “Because I have common sense. Okay? And unfortunately, a lot of people don’t.”
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KIMMEL: “Take from it a man who looked directly into an eclipse, you need common sense.
(Laughter)
(Cheering and Applause)
I mean, this is — if a straight, white male pilot had injected a little bleach into that helicopter, None of this would have happened.
(Laughter)
And by the way, it may have been a straight, white male pilot. May have been two of them. For all he knows, the cockpits, the control towers could all have been full of straight, white men. But Trump, he hears the word ‘Blackhawk’ and he’s like, ‘If that hawk had been white.’
(Laughter)
Seriously though, are the people who voted for him good with this? Every time there’s a shooting at a school, they’re like, ‘It’s too soon to be talking about gun laws!’ But never too soon for Trump to point his finger. A terrible thing happened. All he had to do is go out there and say, ‘This is a tragedy,’ offer some comfort to the families, to the military families, promise to get to the bottom of it. But he can’t do that, because he’s callous, he’s racist, he’s sexist. And most of all, he’s stupid. He’s a deeply stupid man.
(Cheering and Applause)
To blame this on DEI is like blaming 9/11 on hummus. It makes no sense. I think maybe he gets jealous when a disaster gets more coverage than him. He’s like, ‘I’m the biggest disaster! You point that camera at me right now!’
(Laughter)
You almost have to hand it to him. The sheer number of ways he finds to be a dirtbag, it’s kind of miraculous. You think you’ve seen them all, he’s like, ‘Feast your eyes on this one.’”
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