race (right there in black and white)

My administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety. We have to have our smartest people. It doesn’t matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are. It matters – intellect, talent. The word talent. You have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses. You can’t have regular people doing that job. They won’t be able to do it.

Then it’s a group within the FAA, another story determined that the workforce was too white. That they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately. This was in the Obama administration just prior to my getting there. And we took care of African Americans, Hispanic Americans. We took care of everybody at levels that nobody’s ever seen before. It’s one of the reasons I won. But they actually came out with a directive, too white. And we want the people that are competent.

Thank you, Mr. President…You made an important point that when we deal with safety, we can only accept the best and the brightest in positions of safety that impact the lives of our loved ones, our family members. And I think you make a really important point on that, Mr. President. That is the motto of your presidency, the best and the brightest, the most intelligent coming into these spaces.

Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation

https://www.rev.com/transcripts/trump-speaks-on-d-c-plane-crash