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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’

a large american flag in front of a river with boats
Recovery teams search the wreckage of a commercial airplane that collided with a military helicopter on approach to Reagan National airport on Friday. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Donald Trump didn’t need to wait for the black box flight recorder. He knew what caused the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and army helicopter that killed 67 people. Or he thought he did.

“They actually came out with a directive – ‘too white’,” the US president told reporters on Thursday, seeking to blame former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for including Black and Latino people in the federal workforce. “We want the people that are competent.”

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