Donald Trump’s unfounded declare that range, fairness and inclusion applications had been accountable for final week’s midair collision between a Black Hawk army helicopter and an American Airways jet drew some oblique pushback from the longer term partner of one of many world’s richest males.
Lauren Sanchez, fiancée of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, shared a video from New York College professor Scott Galloway blasting social media platforms and, by affiliation, the president.
‘There’s one thing that sells greater than intercourse, and that’s rage. So attempting to get folks to begin arguing with one another,” lecturer Scott Galloway stated in an Instagram reel titled “Advertising in 2025.” ‘They need you to combat, the algorithms love that. As a result of then it will get extra feedback, extra Nissan adverts, extra shareholder worth.”
And extra votes. Donald Trump has expertly employed the technique of division in politics, motivating his base over hot-button points like trans rights and abortion.
Sánchez, 55, attended Trump’s inauguration with Bezos, who has been more and more solicitous of the president — a frequent critic of how the billionaire businessman’s newspaper, The Washington Put up, covers him. Amazon gifted $1 million in money to Trump’s inaugural committee, along with broadcasting, free of charge, the January 20 ceremony on the corporate’s streaming video platform.
Bezos was roundly criticized after it was revealed he blocked the Put up from publishing its endorsement of Trump’s Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris.
Sanchez shared Galloway’s video to her 860,000 Instagram followers. The avid pilot is the founding father of Black Ops Aviation, the primary female-owned aerial movie and manufacturing firm.
With out proof, Trump strongly implied that DEI insurance policies on the Federal Aviation Administration led the company to rent unqualified or incompetent air site visitors controllers attributable to their race, ethnicity or gender.
“A gaggle inside the FAA decided the workforce was too white,” Trump fumed at a press convention the day after the tragedy. “They really got here out with a directive saying it’s too white.”
Requested how he reached the conclusion that DEI had one thing to do with the crash, the president responded, “As a result of I’ve frequent sense, OK? And, sadly, lots of people don’t.”
Throughout the briefing, Trump falsely claimed the initiative originated beneath President Joe Biden and his transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg. However in 2019, throughout Trump’s first time period, the FAA launched a pilot program to enroll as much as 20 disabled individuals in coaching for a profession in air site visitors operations.
MAGA loyalists have argued that the company values range greater than public security. In January 2024, Fox Information posted an article claiming the “FAA’s range push contains deal with hiring folks with ‘extreme mental’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities.” Conservative influencers like Elon Musk championed the story, which quoted famous trade consultants like actor James Woods.
Snopes fact-checked the article and located this system had been in place since 2013 and went unchallenged through the entirety of the primary Trump administration.
Sánchez, in the meantime, usually steers away from politics on her social media websites. That’s good for enterprise, as one reader reminded Bezos’ future spouse.
“She ought to keep away from getting in a verbal combat with Trump,” wrote the commenter. “It could not be good for Amazon.”
“She wants to sit down,” one other particular person wrote.
Others known as Sánchez for hypocrisy as a result of she attended Trump’s inauguration.
“Sorry, woman, however you had been there supporting him at his inauguration with Bezos, who additionally kissed the ring. You’re not fooling anybody.”
