Breaking news: to this day President Trump has yet to blame the Saints’ recent lack of success on DEI hires. It is a shocking oversight coming from someone as astute as our President. Is the first sign that the man may be showing his age? Perhaps.
Regardless, to this day, we don’t know why he hasn’t come for Dennis Allen. But if anybody fits the President’s definition of a DEI hire, it’s Dennis Allen. Yet, somehow Allen has escaped unscathed. Good luck in Chicago, Dennis.
Last week, a helicopter and plane collided in D.C. over the Potomac River. There were no survivors. And while answers were scarce and bodies were being pulled from the river, the president gave a press conference. It was…interesting.
Here’s what we learned from the President’s press conference:
- Only natural geniuses should apply to be air traffic controllers with the FAA. All other applicants should ball up their resumes. I know what you’re thinking. What exactly is a natural genius? Here’s an answer: Beats the you-know-what out of me. And apparently it does the same to the President. Because to this day, he has not defined what a natural genius is and whether it’s greater than or equal to a learned genius. But if genius is the standard going forward, then that means the requirements to be an air traffic controller are greater than those to be President. This country… [insert face palm emoji, the one with the DEI skin tone].
- The Obama and Biden administrations weren’t focusing on hiring natural geniuses because they were too busy courting dwarves and mentally disabled people under the FAA’s DEI program. Wowzer. This is a stunning condemnation of the dwarf community. The implication is clear: Dwarves can’t be natural geniuses, or read aviation screens apparently. The President has been accused of being many things. He’s been accused of being a racist, a sexist, but who would’ve ever thought we have to add heightist to the list.
- Facts don’t matter, or really anything the President says. Example: In one breath, the President said that the air traffic controllers did their job. The incoming plane was directed along the same path and trajectory as other incoming planes. But when asked how then could he blame the collision on DEI hires within the FAA, the President said, common sense. This is the equivalent of asking someone what their favorite color is, and they reply, meatball. How do you respond to that?
- Reporters still haven’t figured out how to cover this President. Mainly because of the point just made in #3. He just doesn’t play by the same logical rules as other presidents, or anybody else in politics. Maybe he’s operating under some natural genius logic the world can’t comprehend. Or maybe he’s just a liar who’ll say anything. And there’s just no way for reporters to prepare for that. For example, no reporter knew beforehand that he was going to go off about DEI and dwarves within the FAA. So no reporter was prepared to counter with the fact that air traffic controllers, whether DEI hires, dwarves, or natural geniuses, have to train for up to 5 months and then pass a 3.5 hour exam that includes collision simulations before they’re put on the job.
- DEI is suffering the same death as critical race theory, and woke. Rep. Steve Scalise began the assault on DEI after the Bourbon St terrorist attack. And now the President and the rest of the Republican Party are joining in. And this is just week 2. Hold on. The next 4 years are going to be…interesting.
Related: Scalise Blames Terror Attack on DEI
Kenneth Cooper
Veteran New Orleans Journalist • Columnist • Cooper’s Collage
Kenneth Cooper is a veteran New Orleans journalist whose column, Cooper’s Collage, has become one of Black Source Media’s most distinctive voices. He writes the way New Orleans thinks — in multiple directions at once, connecting the sardonic to the serious, the political to the personal, never letting a target escape without a precisely aimed observation.
Cooper covers Louisiana and New Orleans politics, Saints football, and the cultural life of Black New Orleans with the authority that comes from decades of watching the same cast of characters fail in the same predictable ways. His format is the collage — several subjects, one through-line, each section ending with a pivot that lands harder than it looked coming.
He is unimpressed by politicians of any party and unafraid of uncomfortable truths. He does not perform outrage. He delivers verdicts. Cooper’s Collage publishes on Black Source Media and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand New Orleans without the official version.
Columnist — Black Source Media
Kenneth Cooper
Veteran New Orleans Journalist • Columnist • Cooper’s Collage
Kenneth Cooper is a veteran New Orleans journalist whose column, Cooper’s Collage, has become one of Black Source Media’s most distinctive voices. He writes the way New Orleans thinks — in multiple directions at once, connecting the sardonic to the serious, the political to the personal, never letting a target escape without a precisely aimed observation.
Cooper covers Louisiana and New Orleans politics, Saints football, and the cultural life of Black New Orleans with the authority that comes from decades of watching the same cast of characters fail in the same predictable ways. His format is the collage — several subjects, one through-line, each section ending with a pivot that lands harder than it looked coming.
He is unimpressed by politicians of any party and unafraid of uncomfortable truths. He does not perform outrage. He delivers verdicts. Cooper’s Collage publishes on Black Source Media and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand New Orleans without the official version.