Humor-Satire Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures [2024 Edition]

[TX-Beau]

Seems that Waltz is to be made US Ambassador to the UN as some sort of consolation prize.

Trump ousts national security adviser Mike Waltz

Mike Waltz had faced criticism for mistakenly adding a journalist to a chat group where sensitive military plans were discussed.

www.bbc.co.uk

The people he appoints now will not be around a year from now. They'll either implode or get fired because they showed up the Toad and bruised his precious ego. All one can do is be utterly sycophantic, and even that won't buy job security for long.

 

[TX-Beau]

BTW It's obvious he thinks an abasadorial job is a vacation in a foreign climate, and they don't have any actual work.

 

[KaraBulut]

It might be a bad week if you're traveling in the NE US.

Apparently, the FAA had a combination of short staffing in traffic control in the NE then Newark had both their radars and radios fail. This caused hundreds of flights to be canceled or delayed. The delays were up to 12 hours and resulted in a ground hold for outgoing flights and stop of incoming flight.

Sec of Transportation Sean Duffy held a press conference where he said that he has a plan to fix the traffic control problems in 3-5 years. This after DOGE sent retirement offers to thousands of DOT employees and laid off probationary employees without regard to whether they were critical to maintain the nation's transportation system.

Newark Airport experiencing delays of several hours for second time in a week

The FAA reported both a ground stop and a ground delay at the Newark Airport Thursday morning due to staffing issues and runway construction.

www.northjersey.com

Newark Airport experiencing delays of several hours for second time in a week

• The FAA reported both a ground stop and a ground delay at the Newark Airport Thursday morning due to staffing issues and runway construction.
• As of 9:15 Thursday morning, FlightAware reported 143 delays and 25 cancellations at EWR.

Numerous flights were delayed at Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday due to a variety of factors including equipment and staffing issues as well as runway construction, according to the Newark Airport and the FAA.

"Due to FAA staffing issues and construction EWR is experiencing delays," the airport said in a post on X shortly before 9 a.m. "Please contact your airline for the status of your flight."

https://pix11.com/news/local-news/new-jersey/staffing-shortages-cause-delays-at-newark-airport-faa/

Delays are expected at Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday due to staffing shortages, according to the FAA.

A ground stop was issued for the airport, but it has since been lifted. Ground delays are expected to be over four hours, the FAA’s website indicates.

Departure delays are averaging 45 minutes, but could increase throughout the day, the agency said. Runway construction is also being cited for the delays.

“The FAA is slowing arrivals and departures at Newark Liberty International Airport due to several factors including equipment issues, runway construction at Newark and staffing issues at Philadelphia TRACON, which guides aircraft in and out of the airport,” an FAA spokesperson told PIX11 News.

 

[rareboy]

The theory of failing upward in practice.

The ambassador to the UN will largely no longer have any power or voice, other than the endless complaining about the UN cost sharing and the Security Council veto.

The UN is moribund and of zero consequence in world events now that the major players are all rogue.

 

[KaraBulut]

More fun in the skies around Washington Reagan Airport:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-investigating-after-two-washington-flights-aborted-landings-due-nearby-2025-05-02/

FAA, NTSB investigate after two Washington flights abort landings due to nearby Army helicopter

• FAA says Army helicopter came too close to two passenger flights, forcing aborted landings
• Army helicopter was on 'scenic route,' FAA told Congress

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Federal investigators have launched an probe after two flights aborted landings at Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday because of the presence of a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that was headed to the Pentagon.
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that air traffic control instructed Delta Air Lines Flight 1671, an Airbus A319 that had originated in Orlando, and Republic Airways Flight 5825, an Embraer 170 that had departed from Boston, to perform go-arounds at around 2:30 p.m. due to a priority military air transport helicopter in the vicinity.

 

[KaraBulut]

The CEO of United announced today that they don't feel that the Newark Airport is safe and they're reducing flights in/out of Newark, even though it is their major hub for the East Coast.

Here's why United Airlines' CEO says the company is canceling 35 roundtrips flights a day at Newark

Following a week of delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport due to FAA equipment issues and staffing shortages, the CEO of United Airlines said the company has no choice but to unilaterally cancel flights from its schedule. Starting this weekend, United will cancel 35...

www.nbcnewyork.com

Following a week of delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport due to FAA equipment issues and staffing shortages, the CEO of United Airlines said the company has no choice but to unilaterally cancel flights from its schedule.

Starting this weekend, United will cancel 35 roundtrip flights per day from its Newark schedule, United CEO Scott Kirby said in a letter to customers.

Three times this week, flights through Newark faced significant delays for a combination of issues, compounded by ongoing runway construction at the airport.

 

[rareboy]

I thought that Duffy and DOGE had fixed all of this?

 

[rareboy]

Some possibility that Waltz's position on pushing for sanctions against rrrZZZia might also have led to his ouster?

Trump Fires National Security Adviser Who Pushed For Sanctions Against Russia

The pretext for firing National Security Adviser Michael Waltz was Signal Gate, but Waltz was also pushing for sanctions against Russia over their war in Ukraine.

www.politicususa.com

 

[KaraBulut]

While DOGE is laying off civil servants, the DUI Hire over at the Pentagon is blowing millions of dollars a day fighting the Houthis. Cable news is so busy obsessing about the stock market, that they are missing the expensive escalation of the battle in the middle east around Yemen and the Saudi peninsula.

Last week, they blew $60 million when a fighter jet fell off an aircraft carrier. They've also lost seven MQ-9 drones at $20 million a pop- for a whopping total of $140 million in just drones.

Ask yourself what $200 million could accomplish in the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration or USAID.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/28/u-s-fighter-jet-falls-overboard-00314317

A Navy fighter jet fell overboard Monday when the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier veered to avoid fire from the Houthis, according to two defense officials.

The military was using the $60 million jet as part of its weekslong campaign against Houthi fighters in Yemen, who have attacked commercial and military shipping in the waterway for the past two years.

One sailor was injured in the mishap, which included the loss of a vehicle used to tow the aircraft across the deck. The plane and truck sank, according to the officials, who were granted anonymity to speak about the attack.

The aircraft’s loss adds to the growing price tag in the effort against the Houthis, which has included seven MQ-9 drones shot down by the Iran-backed group over the past several weeks. The Houthis have brought down more than a dozen of the surveillance drones since October 2023, when they began attacking ships in the Red Sea to, as they said, help Hamas in its war with Israel. They cost more than $20 million each.

 

[rareboy]

The Houthis are an easy target. And the Pentagon is in the business of 'losing' their toys. It is how the military industrial complex keeps the whole game going.

Since TrumpCo. don't want Ukraine to have any of this in order to defeat Putin and Israel has utterly devastated Gaza by now, the US must be desperate to blow off some munitions and equipment.

Particularly so since Canada and Europe likely won't be buying US planes any more.

 

[rareboy]

btw. I don't have a moment's pity for Bessent. I don't care if he is the one hung out to dry.

He has been an active agent in destroying the world economy. He should just sit the fuck down at this point and leave the discussions to
the adults in the room.

 

[KaraBulut]

The Houthis are an easy target. And the Pentagon is in the business of 'losing' their toys. It is how the military industrial complex keeps the whole game going.

Easy target but elusive enemy.

This is year 10 of the Yemeni Civil War. The Saudis haven't been able to quell the Houthi rebellion. It is a proxy war between Iran and American-aligned allies in the region.

All the Houthis have to do is hit one oil tanker and it's millions of dollars is losses. The US is trying to take out terrorism cells which usually requires killing women and children nearby. This is unlikely to end because these actions are just recruiting ads for the next generation of terrorists.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Seems that Waltz is to be made US Ambassador to the UN as some sort of consolation prize.

Trump ousts national security adviser Mike Waltz

Mike Waltz had faced criticism for mistakenly adding a journalist to a chat group where sensitive military plans were discussed.

www.bbc.co.uk

Waltz couldn't be turned into a VP because the US isn't a corporation, and there can be only one VP to be useless here at a time.

He was put in the UN to keep him harmless. Trump has always railed against the UN and everything it does, so Waltz appears to be going to some form of MAGA Purgatory.

 

[KaraBulut]

Missed a story about yet another near miss at the airport.

Poor Sec Duffy.

JFK-bound plane carrying members of Congress, including Meng and Meeks, clipped by another aircraft in D.C. – QNS

Six members of Congress were aboard a plane headed to JFK when it was struck by another aircraft while taxiing at Reagan Airport,

qns.com

JFK-bound plane carrying members of Congress, including Meng and Meeks, clipped by another aircraft in D.C.

Six members of Congress — including four from New York City — were aboard a plane headed to JFK Airport on Monday when it was struck by another aircraft while taxiing at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, federal officials confirmed.

The incident occurred around 12:45 p.m. as American Airlines Flight 4522 was preparing for departure to New York. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the plane was clipped by the wingtip of a separate aircraft, American Airlines Flight 5490, which was bound for Charleston, South Carolina...

Among those aboard the JFK-bound flight were Queens U.S. Reps. Grace Meng and Gregory Meeks, Bronx U.S. Reps. Ritchie Torres and Adriano Espaillat, New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer, and Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota. The lawmakers were returning home for the congressional Easter and Passover recess.

 

[KaraBulut]

It might be a bad week if you're traveling in the NE US.

Apparently, the FAA had a combination of short staffing in traffic control in the NE then Newark had both their radars and radios fail. This caused hundreds of flights to be canceled or delayed. The delays were up to 12 hours and resulted in a ground hold for outgoing flights and stop of incoming flight.

Sec of Transportation Sean Duffy held a press conference where he said that he has a plan to fix the traffic control problems in 3-5 years. This after DOGE sent retirement offers to thousands of DOT employees and laid off probationary employees without regard to whether they were critical to maintain the nation's transportation system.

The situation at Newark might have been worse than initially reported. We're now a week into the problems at Newark, with no end in sight.

Newark air traffic controllers couldn't see or talk to planes, leading to last week's airport meltdown

The FAA said air traffic controllers took time off to recover from the stress of the event.

www.nbcnewyork.com

Newark air traffic controllers couldn't see or talk to planes, leading to last week's airport meltdown

• Air traffic controllers responsible for overseeing airspace in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport lost communication with aircraft last week in an outage that prompted massive delays.
• The FAA said some controllers took time off to recover from the stress of the incidents.
• United said it will cut 35 flights from its daily schedule to avoid future disruptions at its major hub.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with aircraft heading to and from Newark Liberty International Airport last week, their union said, detailing an equipment failure that led to massive flight delays and raised more concerns about aging U.S. aviation infrastructure and staffing shortages.

The controllers who guide flights in and out of the New Jersey airport on April 28 "temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them," the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, their union, said in a statement.

 

[rareboy]

More to come on this????

It will be hard to find the truth in this.

 

[KaraBulut]

Air incident of the day...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/us/san-francisco-united-airlines-plane

Two United Airlines planes clip wings while preparing to depart San Francisco International Airport, according to the FAA

In the second such incident in less than a month, two airline planes clipped wings at a US airport, this time in San Francisco, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

United Airlines Flight 863, which was headed for Sydney, Australia, was pushing back from the gate at San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday when its right wingtip struck the left wingtip of United Flight 877, headed for Hong Kong, the FAA said in a statement to CNN.

The incident occurred about 12:30 a.m. local time “in an area where air traffic controllers do not communicate with flight crews,” the FAA added.

Sean, your botox is wearing off. You look stressed.

With all of these incidents, what has Sean-From-The-Real-World done? He suspended the panel that reviews air traffic control issues. And he, of course, went on Fox News and tried to blame Biden.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2025/05/06/faa-halts-review-of-atc-oversight/

FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control

A panel of experts, including the former chair of the NTSB and former head of NASA, had been asked to evaluate the FAA’s oversight of traffic control operations.

The Federal Aviation Administration halted the work of an outside panel of experts scrutinizing its management of air traffic control, a previously unreported move made just weeks after a fatal airliner crash near Washington raised questions about the agency’s abilities to keep the skies safe.

The panel had been tasked late last year by then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker to study ways to reduce conflicts of interest in the FAA’s oversight of air traffic control organization. The United States is unusual among modern Western countries in that the same agency that employs and manages air traffic controllers is also responsible for evaluating its own performance.

 

[rareboy]

Seriously.

We are Crying. One maybe.

But?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics/second-us-navy-jet-is-lost-at-sea

 

[KaraBulut]

Last week, they blew $60 million when a fighter jet fell off an aircraft carrier. They've also lost seven MQ-9 drones at $20 million a pop- for a whopping total of $140 million in just drones.

Ask yourself what $200 million could accomplish in the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration or USAID.

Seriously.

We are Crying. One maybe.

But?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics/second-us-navy-jet-is-lost-at-sea

Ask yourself what $200 $260 million could accomplish...

 

[KaraBulut]

The White House pulled the Surgeon General nomination. Dr Janette Nesheiwat was another Fox News contributor that Trump hired off TV. Apparently, the nomination was pulled after it was discovered Dr Nesheiwat has a medical degree from a sketchy Caribbean diploma mill. Nesheiwat also apparently fell out of favor with Laura Loomer, the President's unofficial human resources department.

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thehill.com

President Trump has pulled his nomination of Janette Nesheiwat to be U.S. surgeon general and has instead chosen chronic disease entrepreneur Casey Means, a physician with close ties to the “Make American Healthy Again,” or MAHA, movement, as his new pick to fill the role.

Nesheiwat’s credentials came into question last month when CBS News reported that records showed she had graduated from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, and not the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, as had been said when her nomination was announced.