I can’t find any one site that has all the things he said, but I will reproduce some of it here from various sites:
I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office. And here’s one, the FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing. And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce said ‘they want them in, and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers. I don’t think so. This was January 14, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA’s program.
Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress 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.
He also said this:
“The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website,” said Trump, noting that the program allowed for the hiring of people with hearing and vision issues as well as paralysis, epilepsy and “dwarfism.”
Asked by a reporter if this crash was somehow was the result of diversity hiring, Trump said, “It just could have been.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-obama-biden-dei-dc-plane-crash-2023610
I have a personal policy of never linking to Twitter, but you can find that link in this article: https://www.al.com/news/2025/01/trump-suggests-faa-diversity-policy-responsible-for-washington-plane-crash.html
Anyway, sorry people with dwarfism. It’s just too hard for you to work at the FAA now.
I think we’re agreeing on that point.