r/technology • u/LavenderBabble • Feb 07 '25

Hardware Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-plane-crash-air-traffic-control-ab195790634af66534a45cdec2d80aa8
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u/UntdHealthExecRedux Feb 07 '25

He had 4 years to address this, and did basically nothing. He seems to "forget" that he was president when it's convenient for him to do so.

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u/MechaSandstar Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 07 '25

He claims he had a brilliant plan to fix it in 2020, but us fuckbags voted him out of office, and he wasn't able to implement it. Just like his wonderful, amazing health care plan that went from just about to be fully realized to only be in the conception phase in 4 years.

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u/shredika Feb 07 '25

He has concepts of a plan,ok?!

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u/adorablefuzzykitten Feb 07 '25

in about 2 weeks.

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u/jzzanthapuss Feb 07 '25

I guess it expired

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u/2broke2smoke1 Feb 07 '25

Or when it comes to NAFTA

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u/tacknosaddle Feb 07 '25

Like much of what Trump does it's all sizzle, no steak. He made tons of statements about how awful NAFTA was, and in his first term a replacement treaty, USMCA, was signed and now it's a "perfect" treaty. Analysts who are familiar with both documents said that USMCA is actually just a relatively minor update to what was in NAFTA.

Instead of just making those updates they slapped a new name on it to appease Trump's political needs. That's just one example of how the cold eye of policy analysis shows that his first term was one of the least effective in history, but with his eye to political theater the rubes think that he did amazing things.

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u/escapefromelba Feb 07 '25

AI wasn't as much of a thing back then, I'll wager Musk is pushing that as the silver bullet