{"id":84093,"date":"2025-01-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/01\/31\/vets-group-blasts-trump-plane-crash-comments-as-shameful\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:44:19","slug":"vets-group-blasts-trump-plane-crash-comments-as-shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/veterans\/2025\/01\/31\/vets-group-blasts-trump-plane-crash-comments-as-shameful\/","title":{"rendered":"Vets group blasts Trump plane crash comments as \u2018shameful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials from Paralyzed Veterans of America strongly criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/01\/30\/trump-blames-dei-army-pilot-error-for-deadly-black-hawk-collision\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump<\/a> for his comments this week suggesting disabled workers may have played a role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/land\/2025\/01\/30\/top-army-aviators-were-on-routine-flight-when-helo-collided-with-jet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday\u2019s aircraft collision in Washington, D.C.<\/a>, calling the commander-in-chief\u2019s remarks irresponsible and premature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe president\u2019s statements are shameful,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/transition\/2019\/01\/21\/heres-what-the-new-york-times-doesnt-get-about-veterans-groups-paralyzed-veterans-of-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">PVA Chief Executive Officer Carl Blake<\/a> said in a statement Thursday. \u201cAs an Army veteran who spent many nighttime hours in a Blackhawk and who incurred a combat-related spinal cord injury in service to this country, I can speak with authority when I say that veterans and all people with disabilities are dedicated, highly skilled and fully qualified to tackle the most difficult jobs possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe fact that disabled veterans are now being shamed and minimized by this administration is disrespectful to their service and contributions to America\u2019s greatness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/01\/30\/no-survivors-in-passenger-jet-army-helicopter-crash-near-dc-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\">A midair collision<\/a> between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan National Airport killed 67 people aboard two aircraft on Wednesday. Federal investigators are still trying to determine the reason for the tragedy and whether pilots or air traffic controllers were at fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2025\/01\/30\/top-army-aviators-were-on-routine-flight-when-helo-collided-with-jet\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP25030514108491.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Top Army aviators were on routine flight when helo collided with jet<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Here&#039;s what is known about the Black Hawk and its crew that crashed into the American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in Washington.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, during a press conference on the tragedy, Trump stated that he believed diversity and inclusion programs within the federal government may have played a role in the accident, despite presenting no evidence to that claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere you have many, many planes coming into one target, you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it,\u201d he said. \u201cTargeted disabilities \u2026 they include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism. They all qualify for the position of a controller of airplanes. I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t think so. I think it\u2019s just the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comments drew immediate condemnation from Democrats on Capitol Hill, who said they were insensitive and misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s one thing for internet pundits to spew off conspiracies, it\u2019s another for the president of the United States to throw out idle speculation as bodies are still being recovered and families are still being notified,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Thursday. \u201cIt just turns your stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PVA officials took exception to \u201cthe implication that veterans with catastrophic disabilities, like amputations and spinal cord injury, are not smart enough, not skilled enough and generally unqualified for these types of positions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 636,000 veterans worked as federal employees in fiscal 2021, the latest year for which federal hiring data is available. 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