Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. I'm here in Berlin. You have questions. I've got

answers. Let's get to it. The question is, do I believe that there is a correlation between Trump's

recent actions, his first month in office, and the uptick in aviation accidents. I do not.

There is no correlation.

That being said, there has been an uptick over recent years of near misses and accidents,

including the first fatal accident in many years in the United States at Reagan National Airport.

And as somebody who travels frequently, I know that I'm

concerned and a lot of people out there are concerned. And so when Donald Trump talks about

dismantling the FAA with no plan to modernize the air traffic control system, when he employs a strategy of, hey, I'm going to send

magic Elon to go assess it. And whatever Elon says, even though Elon has no core experience

in the subject area, the issues could become that Donald Trump and his mismanagement of the

government and the deregulatory

zeal endangers air travel in the United States, which is the safest in the world. And the FAA

isn't just really the American regulator, but it's really the world regulator on safety. So it's

very concerning what his rhetoric has been on a number of different

fronts. But right now, you can't turn around and blame every event, weather event, air travel

crash, train crash, that every time something bad happens that it's Trump's fault. That is not a

successful strategy to deal with MAGA and to defeat MAGA ultimately. The question is,

why do Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue to prevaricate pathologically? For example, why have they

lied about the stranded astronauts? Why have they lied about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio?

And why won't they ever admit that they're wrong when they lie about something?

It's a great question.

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