Trump appeared before the media today in relation to the crash between a commute jet liner and a military helicopter at Reagan National Airport and appeared to blame diversity initiatives at the FAA for weakening the safety of our airspace.

“A group within the FAA determined that the workforce was too white, then they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately. This was in the Obama administration.”

Not content to leave it at that, Trump also suggested that there could be firings “if we find that people aren’t mentally competent. For some jobs, they have to be at the highest level of genius.” The crash has yet to be investigated, and there has been no determination as to whether the FAA did anything wrong.

Trump, of course, lost touch with reality as far back as his inauguration in 2016 when he claimed that he had a bigger crowd for his inauguration then Obama, when one could clearly see with the naked eye that he had a smaller crowd then Obama. He made his then-brand new press secretary, Sean Spicer (later to bomb on Dancing with the Stars) go out and make the claim for him.

This time, his brand new and sparkling press secretary, New Hampshire’s own Karoline Leavitt, go out and proclaim that that the Trump administration tried to stop all foreign aid because Biden sent “$50 million worth of condoms to Gaza” and that the administration was just focusing on being “good stewards of tax dollars.”

Condoms?

I have set my outrage meter down near zero, because it no longer matters what Trump says. He’s nuts. I am concerned with what Trump does, and here the early returns are that his administration is a bunch of nitwits who will attempt all kinds of nonsense that they don’t have the capacity to achieve.

But they may achieve some of it, which is reason enough to stay on guard.

As I’ve been saying over and over again, this is what half of America voted for. It’s only week 2 of the 2nd Trump administration, and we still have 206 weeks to go. We have to keep our eyes on the ball and stay tuned to what really matters while Trump (as Steve Bannon prognosticated) “floods the zone” with bullshit.

It’s going to be a long four years, my friends. A long four years.

I hope the MAGA community doesn’t think we’re going to “forgive and forget” when they roll out J.D. Vance in 2026.