It took fewer than 12 hours after Wednesday’s disastrous plane collision at DC’s Reagan National airport for Donald Trump to display his most powerful instinct: blaming others, whether the real guilty party is himself, one of his cronies, unknown, or no one at all.
In a press conference on Thursday morning, the president moved quickly through the scripted “bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all”, the heartbreak and “solace in the knowledge that their journey ended not in the cold waters of the Potomac, but in the warm embrace of a loving God”. Then he got down to business, naming his always-prime suspect, after “illegal aliens”: diversity, equity and inclusion.
