President Donald Trump addressed reporters during a live briefing on Thursday, Jan. 30, regarding the deadly American Airlines collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C.
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00:00The FAA website shows that the agency's guidance on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23rd of 22.
00:08They wanted to make it even more so.
00:11And then I came in, and I assume maybe this is the reason.
00:15My administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety.
00:19We have to have our smartest people.
00:21It doesn't matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are.
00:25It matters intellect, talent, the word talent.
00:29You have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses.
00:34You can't have regular people doing that job.
00:36They won't be able to do it.
00:38But we'll restore faith in American air travel.
00:40I'll have more to say about that.
00:42I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office, and here's one.
00:52The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
01:02That is amazing.