Trumps response to air crashes suggests Americans dont understand irony [Video]

In light of recent air accidents, Trump is bewailing policies of diversity, equity and inclusion, which, he feels, led to people who may be manifestly unsuitable for top jobs being put into positions of such responsibility that their lamentable inadequacy means their failings will wreck safety systems, with potentially tragic consequences.

It’s often been suggested that Americans don’t understand irony, but I don’t think that’s even once been illustrated more clearly than here.

Julian Self

Wolverton, Milton Keynes

After the air crash in Washington, Donald Trump did manage, briefly, to acknowledge the tragedy of the situation. But he then went on to blame the Biden administration for the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programme, which, he claimed, was the cause of the crash (”Trump baselessly blames plane crash that killed 67 on DEI and Biden,” Thursday 30 January).

When asked what evidence he had for that statement, given the official investigation had not even …