Airplanes are still falling out of the sky – and now Trump’s people are scapegoating each other for it
The thing about a power hungry lazy coward like Donald Trump is that he likes to put a whole lot of loyalist stooges out in front of him so that they’ll have to do all the work for his agenda – and ultimately take the blame whenever the clown show derails. The trouble with Trump’s strategy is that sooner or later, his stooges end up scapegoating each other in an effort at keeping themselves on the job for just a bit longer.
For instance, there’s not one serious person who believes that Trump Transportation Secretary and former MTV Real World contestant (yes you read that right) Sean Duffy could possibly be doing a competent job. Now that airplanes are falling out of the sky with ongoing regularity (including two more in the past 48 hours), it’s clear that Duffy has no idea how to fix this. If this keeps escalating into a sufficient headache for Trump, he’ll be inclined to shove Duffy out the back door – and Duffy will go without raising a stink, because he knows he never should have had the job to begin with. Except there’s a catch.
Now that Duffy is indeed feeling the heat, he’s blaming all these air vehicle mishaps on Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts. This is actually valid. Musk has fired so many essential personnel across the federal government, it’s totally believable that his cuts to the Department of Transportation have created this air crisis. The problem, of course, is that the left hand can’t blame the right hand for what it’s doing. And we all know that if Duffy keeps blaming Musk, Musk will eventually get wind of it and fire back. This comes just days after Musk and Peter Navarro got into it with each other publicly.
This shell game is keeping the heat off Trump – for the moment. The thing is, for it to keep working, Trump has to be willing to periodically step up and make a power move so he can look like he’s in charge. In years past, Trump was always grudgingly willing to do this as needed. But this time around he isn’t doing anything. Trump failed to navigate the Musk-Rubio feud, or the Musk-Navarro feud, and now he’ll likely do nothing about the brewing Musk-Duffy feud. Trump isn’t doing anything about this, of course, because he isn’t doing anything at all.
Trump continues to carry out a “workday” of doing nothing, barking on social media, giving incoherent speeches about Hannibal Lecter, and going golfing. He doesn’t appear to have any idea that his regime is falling apart in record time. So be it. Our job is to keep exploiting every vulnerability that we can find, and Trump and his stooges keep handing us one opening after another.
