BREAKING: Trump Issues Order Grounding All Boeing 737 Max Airplanes

And what is wrong with this?

For the first time, he does the right thing.

I surprisingly agree. Jesus fuck, am I a MAGAt now?

[tagged] in a press spray

It always comes back to piss with Trump.

Trump finally did a good thing, it only took two years.

Read speculation over at Pprune site that the FAA had received new data and were going to announce the grounding order but Trump being the attention whore, issued the order first.

I agree this is the right thing to do but maybe now we can add executive overreach to his list of charges...

Grounding flights is an FAA decision and not a Presidential one. Heck, even during 9/11 it was the FAA that decided to halt all air traffic not Bush

I hadn’t thought of that - he’s totally trying to get attention

Oh no, and there was me hoping Dad might take one of these planes one fine day in the near future!

:-(

Manafort distraction

Trump is grasping for anything that might make him look remotely competent as POTUS.

Hold me R2!!!

FAA is a component of Dept of Transportation. Trump is over the DOT, like any other federal agency. So based on the public concern about the safety of the 737 MAX it is probably not unreasonable for him to issue the grounding (if that is what he did) or announce it. Like mentioned in the first few comments this may be the first or third time he got something right. But the day isn't over, so he will screw this and a few other things up up somehow.

He announced this about 2 minutes after Canada banned the planes. A happy coincidence, I'm sure.

[quote]And what is wrong with this?

Because it's by Presidential fiat rather than by letting the FAA drive this conversation without interference or intervention.

Boeing should be extremely worried about this. It could further impact their market share and give their rivals like Airbus an opportunity to pick up the slack.

Too bad Air Force One is not a Boeing 737 Max..

He should've grounded them before 30 plus other countries did.

Did Dennis Muilenburg support Hillary?

This is good. This shows that we can acknowledge the very rare instance when he does something not of the devil. We’re not deranged anti-Trumpers who object to it all because we hate him, we hate what he does and when he does the right thing we’ll acknowledge it. He also did something about streaming royalties for musicians thanks to that clown Kanye bending his ear, and it looks like things there might marginally improve. But that’s pretty much it.

If this were Obama, the deplorables would have tried to book flights on every 737 they could.

If this were Obama, the deplorables would have tried to book flights on every 737 they could.

IF ONLY

Weren’t they talking about upgrading airforce one while Obama was still in office, r17? Obama really dropped the ball on this one. If he’d authorised the new plane then a new 737 max would have been good to go as soon as Trump assumed office.

True. That would have been amazing r21.

The FAA should have grounded these planes days ago.

Trump did the right thing.

R24- Trump only did the right thing because once Canada grounded the planes, the US was the only major country still flying them. Trump used the same explanation almost word for word that Marc Garneau used when he grounded the Canadian planes.

Must we refer to him as President?

This is the only right thing he's done in two years.

Prepare for delays and higher ticket prices. I hope this is based on fact and not cheap political points or rumors. Yes, I used the F word

He jumped the gun and made the announcement once he was told the FAA was going to announce. At the press conference he carried on like some aviation expert when his only experience in air travel was driving trump airlines into bankruptcy. We know there is an autistic in the WH but I doubt it's Barron.

America Last!

To those with Trump Derangement Syndrome... everything he does is wrong no matter what.

R31, I kinda agree. obviously he's unfit, but EVERYTHING he does can't be wrong. Let's use our critical thinking skills to determine what is wrong and when to shut the hell up. Do we really want more defective airplanes falling out of the sky?

The Ethiopian government/Ethiopian Airlines want Boeing to be blamed.

Boeing wants pilot error/EA to be blamed.

One wonders if the public will ever really know something that passes for the truth of the cause of the crash.

They should have grounded these jets after the Lion cash, it was obvious that something was really wrong.

Of course he's also been trying to appoint his personal pilot as Head of the FAA.

It's been reported that the CEO of Boeing personally asked Trump to NOT ground the planes, which is why the FAA dragged on it.

It was only after the public uproar that Trump suddenly decided it was necessary.

[quote] To those with Trump Derangement Syndrome... everything he does is wrong no matter what.

What he did was right, but the fact that it took the US 2 days, after all the other countries involved did it immediately is what makes this suspect.

Trump only does what's right after a public uproar

[quote]It's been reported that the CEO of Boeing personally asked Trump to NOT ground the planes, which is why the FAA dragged on it.

The FAA’s job is to ensure aviation safety, not to protect the interests of a CEO.

Trump stepped in when the FAA failed.

Bullshit, R39. See r36.