Wife of skating coach on DC flight recalls heartbreaking decision before deadly crash
The wife of a Delaware skating coach says she has “lost everything” after learning that her husband was one of the victims killed when an American Airlines plane collided midair with an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., late Wednesday night.
Natalya Gudin told WPVI that she and her husband, Alexandr “Sasha” Kirsanov, were both skating coaches in Delaware. She recalled the now heartbreaking decision that she and her husband made that Kirsanov would travel to Wichita, Kansas, for a development camp.
“We are husband and wife,” she told the station. “We decided who’s going, who’s staying home,” she said. “We decided he would go to the development camp.”
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Kirsanov, 46, was one of 67 people killed when American Airlines Flight 5342 and a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter collided near Reagan Washington National Airport at around 9 p.m. local time.
What began as a search and rescue effort turned to a recovery operation after officials said they believed there were no survivors.
Among the victims included several members of the figure skating community. U.S. Figure Skating released a statement confirming that the victims were returning home from a development camp being held after the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, which concluded on Sunday.
“I lost everything. I lost my husband. I lost my students. I lost my friends,” Gudin told the station.
University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis released a statement Thursday confirming that Kirsanov, a former figure skating coach with the university, was one of the victims in Wednesday’s crash.
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“I am incredibly saddened to share the news that several members of the figure skating community connected to the University of Delaware were among those who tragically lost their lives in an aircraft collision last night in Washington, DC,” his statement read.
“Kirsanov and the skaters trained at the University’s High Performance Training Center, which uses UD ice rink facilities and has been the training home for many years of multiple world-class skating champions and competitors. The figure skating community is tight-knit, and many of our students and coaches have trained and competed alongside those who were lost.”
Assanis also confirmed that Kirsanov was with “two young skaters” on the flight. He identified them only as members of the UD Figure Skating Club, but Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., later identified them as Sean Kay and Angela Yang.
“I’m devastated to hear the news that at least three Delawareans died during last night’s air collision. Sasha Kirsanov, Sean Kay, and Angela Yang went to Wichita to pursue their passion for figure skating. It is a tragedy that none of them returned home to our state,” his post on X read.
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“Delaware is a state of neighbors, and tonight we hold all of our neighbors a little closer. My heart goes out to Sasha’s wife Natalia, the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club, and every other Delawarean touched by the three of them.”
Kirsanov’s daughter, Nicole, also posted a tribute on social media following the loss of her father.
“I miss you Dad, I would do anything to bring you back and tell you that I loved you one more time,” she wrote in a post on Instagram.
Kirsanov was an eight-time national coach and a three-time international junior world coach with nearly a decade of experience.
President Trump to meet with tech giant CEO for first time at White House
President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday, FOX Business confirmed.
Huang and Trump are expected to discuss artificial intelligence (AI), as well as chips and the power needed to train AI models and semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
Nvidia has emerged as a leader in the market for advanced chips that are used to train sophisticated AI models, and has also developed AI chips for autonomous cars and general robotics.
The meeting between Huang and Trump comes after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released an AI chatbot that vaulted past OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the Apple App Store. DeepSeek claimed its chatbot was trained on 2,000 Nvidia H800 GPUs at a cost of less than $6 million – though critics have cast doubt on that figure.
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DeepSeek’s emergence roiled U.S. tech stocks including Nvidia, which fell 17% on Monday. That wiped about $20 billion off of Huang’s net worth, dropping it to about $103.7 billion. Huang’s current net worth ranks among the 20 largest fortunes in the world, according to Forbes.
Nvidia’s stock is down a little more than 6% for the month as of Friday morning, having recovered some of the losses from its recent decline. However, Nvidia shares are up 104% from a year ago despite the recent dip.
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA | NVIDIA CORP. | 124.65 | +0.95 | +0.77% |
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Huang recently outlined Nvidia’s new initiatives in a keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show conference in Las Vegas.
“The ChatGPT moment for general robotics is just around the corner,” Huang said in reference to the impact of OpenAI’s ChatGPT spurring broader interest in generative AI technology with the release of a conversational AI chatbot in late 2022.
“In fact, all of the enabling technologies that I’ve been talking about is going to make it possible for us in the next several years to see very rapid breakthroughs, surprising breakthroughs, in general robotics.”
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Huang said AI tools will help facilitate the growth of general robotics technologies in areas like information technology, self-driving cars and humanoid robots that can automate more of the work performed in manufacturing facilities and warehouses.
VP Vance has blunt message for Republicans putting Trump’s Cabinet picks in limbo
Vice President JD Vance delivered blunt advice to Republican senators considering voting against President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead key three-letter agencies: “You don’t get to make these decisions.”
Vance sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday for an interview from the nation’s capital a day before the Senate held confirmation hearings for FBI director nominee Kash Patel and DNI director nominee Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard, Patel and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK), Trump’s pick to lead the United States Department of Health and Human Services, are considered to be the administration’s most controversial picks, who could struggle to get confirmed.
Vance said he ultimately believes the trio will make it through the process, but Republicans will “have to fight for each one.”
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He praised Senate Republicans for being “freethinking and “independent” but argued the commander-in-chief is the one who gets to decide who he wants in his Cabinet.
“…The president has made his selections and the advice and consent power of the United States Senate should not be used to block people because you have one policy disagreement on one issue,” Vance told Hannity Thursday. “You don’t get to make these decisions. President Trump gets to make these decisions, and he already has.”
The former Ohio senator encouraged his fellow Republicans to look at Trump’s 2024 coalition, questioning whether they could have won in November had they not included people like Gabbard and RFK, Jr.
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“Donald Trump won an imposing mandate because he got a different group of people to vote Republican than had ever voted Republican. We have to give those parts of the coalition some wins, too. So, yes, we’ve got a lot of traditional Republicans in the administration. We’ve got a lot of traditional national security hawks in the administration. But we’ve also got some new people, some people who bring a fresh perspective,” said Vance.
As of Thursday, Trump has eight members of his Cabinet confirmed so far: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
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The next steps for Patel, Gabbard and RFK, Jr. are committee markup votes.
It’s hard to believe that 2025 is already 1/12 complete. We survived the transition from an incoherent placeholder presidency to the new America and a new president. We endured the global cooling, oops, warming, that brought snow to Florida and Texas and 11-degree mornings to north Georgia.
January didn’t stop there. It featured the terrifying nightmare of a Dunkin’ Donuts shortage and the media freakout over the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America. Along the way, the world kept getting crazier. Like always, the press led the way. Here are some of the craziest stories from the month gone by:
New media watch out
Lefty Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin announced she is joining the mass exodus from the paper and starting a new venture called The Contrarian. (She hasn’t been contrary to the major media in years.) She posted a short (Thank, God!) video with partner Norm Eisen, a CNN legal analyst. The video was widely panned as “cringe” and depicted the pair claiming their new outlet would be “an exciting new online platform.” That was said with all the passion you get watching milk curdle.
Eisen added, “[B]ut we know that any successful, pro-democracy movement also has to be very vocal about culture.” He promised a cooking column, “but we’re gonna sprinkle in a little bit of pro-democracy flavor.” NeverTrump cooking lessons. Yum!
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It was like watching a mixture of an old-school “Saturday Night Live” skit overlaid with the berserk, faux sincerity of NPR. If you were making a video to make fun of them, it wouldn’t have been this hilarious.
Don’t quote me
The White House exes – both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris – reminded voters of what fun we missed with four more years of either candidate. Biden, who delivered word mush for many years before the press was forced to admit it, couldn’t handle the difficult challenge of singing… “Happy Birthday.”
The former prez who, at 82, has presumably heard the song a few times, still flubbed it. Apparently, he couldn’t remember the name of the young guest named Alicio. When it came time to muster the name, Biden just drifted off into Mumble City. The only thing the video lacked was Alicio going all Walter White and telling Biden, “Say my name.”
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Not to be outdone, Harris couldn’t even muster the “Pledge of Allegiance.” She’s old enough at 60 to have attended school when teachers still taught it, before the left wrecked American education. Didn’t matter. Even though she urged the Senate to “join me in pledging allegiance to our flag,” she forgot the flag as soon as she started. “To the flag” are words four through six of the pledge, except when leftists say it.
Let’s just call that flagging patriotism.
Running out of dough
Dunkin’ (Formerly Dunkin’ Donuts), one of America’s premier sugar-delivery operations, ran out of… doughnuts (The correct spelling, for the marketing folks at Dunkin’.) Outages were reported in New Mexico and Nebraska. Corporate said just 4% of the stores ran out, except Dunkin’ has 9,500 stores. So, nearly 400 stores had no doughnuts and no donuts.
Speaking for the doughnut-eating (and Dunkin’-loving) citizens of the world. Do better. Don’t make us find another location to spend our dough – or buy it.
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It’s springtime for…
Longtime readers know my favorite movie is the original “Producers.” It’s an incredible comedy that makes fun of Nazis. And now, thanks to entrepreneur Elon Musk and the laughably leftist media, the movie is current events.
Musk, with his characteristic, socially awkward introversion, gave his heart to the crowd at a Trump gathering, thrusting his hand into the air. The media swarmed, creating the first viral, phony controversy of the Trump Two era. Even the far left Anti-Defamation League, which bashes Nazis for a living, said it wasn’t a Nazi salute. Didn’t matter. An enormous number of so-called news outlets pretended it was.
Wonder how many of those making this phony claim are still driving their Teslas.
Legally blind
Justice is blind, they say. It’s also pretty stupid. Reese Witherspoon, star of the epic legal comedy “Legally Blonde” and its pathetic sequel, ended up on jury duty. Kudos to her for refusing to dodge her civic duty. But she wasn’t the problem.
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Witherspoon revealed on the “Graham Norton Show” that the other jurors “unanimously” chose her as foreman. Why? Because they thought she had gone to law school, because of a movie. OK, admittedly it was Beverly Hills, so intellect generally not required. Except they make the movies nearby. One might think they’d know what actors do.
When the manure hits the fan
Say the word Peta and people worldwide think of the most-annoying group of Karens imaginable, the kind who work for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. What better way to end than to say the group is full of… manure.
A pair of Peta poo promoters tried to dump a truckload of manure on the headquarters of their competitors – the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA. Only the manure managers at Peta had their heads in their… truck so far that they forgot manure freezes. And they tried the dumping during the peak cold front in Manhattan.
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The result showed a frustrated Peta person digging the manure out of the truck bed like he had been cast in some disturbing remake of “Frozen.” New York’s finest locked him and his partner up, while most of the manure stayed lodged in the truck.
I guess it’s true, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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Costco shoppers sound off after company’s DEI practices fall under scrutiny
Costco shoppers shared their opinions about the company’s “commitment” to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in the wake of many other retailers scaling back their DEI efforts.
“Baloney, to be honest with you. I think they should get rid of it,” Robert of Madison Heights, Michigan told Fox News Digital. “Puts people in there that aren’t qualified to do this, to do the job that they’re hired for.”
Shoppers in Michigan, Texas and New York spoke with Fox News Digital while they were shopping or pumping gas at the retail store.
Several customers shared similar sentiments as Robert, evoking the term “merit” when prompted to respond to whether DEI has valid implications.
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“I mean you hire on merit alone,” Clara in Tomball, Texas said.
“I think it should be merit based,” said Laura, a Texas resident.
Costco shareholders voted earlier this month to reject an anti-DEI proposal brought by activist shareholder group National Center for Public Policy Research.
While Costco is standing firm behind its DEI policies, many other corporations have announced plans to ditch the controversial programs following a nationwide backlash. Facebook, McDonald’s, Walmart, Harley-Davidson and many other companies have all rolled back their DEI programs in recent months.
Costco is bucking the trend and appears to have the support of some of their customers.
“I support DEI practices,” Texas resident John told Fox News Digital.
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“I think they need to include everybody. That’s where this planet is going. It’s truly about the whole and not the few,” Allen, a Texas resident, said.
While pumping gas at a Costco in Madison Heights, a patron was asked whether Costco should care more about hiring practices with DEI objectives or lowering grocery prices.
“I would say DEI because the person is more important,” Carol said.
She added that she does not agree with President Donald Trump’s position to get rid of DEI policies in the federal government.
However, a patron in Harlem told Fox News Digital that the retailer should care more about the price of groceries.
“The price of groceries. Yeah. Too much. Too much. Are you kidding me? I mean, I’m working. I have a little pension, and I still can’t make ends meet,” the shopper said.
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A customer, who did not disclose his name, said he is a “huge fan of DEI.”
“I think there’s a lot of ignorance out there,” he said. “I really do. I mean, I think we have a history of just being discriminatory in this country. And I don’t think that it improves anybody’s life if you don’t support programs like that.”
RFK Jr’s unmistakable message for ‘all the members of this panel’ during tense exchange
The back-to-back combustible Senate confirmation hearings are over.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), still faces crucial committee and full Senate confirmation votes in his mission to lead 18 powerful federal agencies that oversee the nation’s food and health.
Testifying in front of the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday and the Health Committee on Thursday, the vaccine skeptic and environmental crusader who ran for the White House in 2024 before ending his bid and endorsing Trump faced plenty of verbal fireworks over past controversial comments.
And while most of the tough questions and sparring over his stances on vaccines, abortion, Medicaid and other issues, came from Democrats on the two committees, Thursday’s hearing ended with the top Republican on the Health panel saying he was “struggling” with Kennedy’s nomination.
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“Your past of undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me,” GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy told the nominee.
The physician from Louisiana, who is a crucial vote and who has voiced concerns over Kennedy’s past stance on vaccines, asked whether Kennedy can “be trusted to support the best public health.”
And the senator told Kennedy, who seeks to lead key health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that “you may be hearing from me over the weekend.”
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Kennedy faced two days of grilling over his controversial past comments, including his repeated claims in recent years linking vaccines to autism, which have been debunked by scientific research.
And Democrats have also spotlighted Kennedy’s service for years as chair or chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit organization he founded that has advocated against vaccines and sued the federal government numerous times, including a challenge over the authorization of the COVID vaccine for children.
One of Thursday’s most heated exchanges came as independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont pushed Kennedy over his past of linking vaccines to autism.
Sanders stated that “vaccines do not cause autism” and asked Kennedy “do you agree with that?”
After the nominee didn’t answer, Sanders responded, “I asked you a simple question, Bobby.”
Kennedy replied, “Senator, if you show me those studies, I will absolutely … apologize.”
“That is a very troubling response because the studies are there. Your job was to have looked at those studies as an applicant for this job,” Sanders said.
Later in the hearing, the two also clashed over political contributions to the pharmaceutical industry, with Kennedy referring to Sanders simply as “Bernie.”
“Almost all the members of this panel, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry and protecting their interests,” Kennedy said.
Sanders immediately pushed back, “I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC [political action committee] money from the pharmaceutical [companies]. They came from workers.”
Another fiery moment came as Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire appeared to fight back tears as she noted her son’s struggles with cerebral palsy amid accusations that “partisanship” was behind the Democrats’ blistering questions to Kennedy.
Hassan, who at Wednesday’s hearing charged that Kennedy “sold out” to Trump by altering his position on abortion, on Thursday accused the nominee of “relitigating settled science.”
But many of the Republicans on the panel came to Kennedy’s defense, including conservative Sen. Rand Paul.
The ophthalmologist from Kentucky defended Kennedy and took aim at comments about vaccines not causing autism.
“We don’t know what causes autism, so we should be more humble,” Paul said to applause from Kennedy supporters in the committee room audience wearing “Make America Healthy Again” garb.
The 71-year-old Kennedy, a scion of the nation’s most storied political dynasty, launched a long-shot campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination against President Joe Biden in April 2023. But six months later, he switched to an independent run for the White House.
Kennedy made major headlines again last August when he dropped his presidential bid and endorsed Trump. While Kennedy had long identified as a Democrat and repeatedly invoked his late father, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and his late uncle, former President John F. Kennedy – who were both assassinated in the 1960s – Kennedy in recent years built relationships with far-right leaders due in part to his high-profile vaccine skepticism.
Trump announced soon after the November election that he would nominate Kennedy to his Cabinet to run HHS.
Kennedy, whose outspoken views on Big Pharma and the food industry have also sparked controversy, has said he aims to shift the focus of the agencies he would oversee toward promotion of a healthy lifestyle, including overhauling dietary guidelines, taking aim at ultra-processed foods and getting to the root causes of chronic diseases.
“Our country is not going to be destroyed because we get the marginal tax rate wrong. It is going to be destroyed if we get this issue wrong,” Kenendy said Thursday as he pointed to chronic diseases. “And I am in a unique position to be able to stop this epidemic.”
The Finance Committee, which will decide on whether to send Kennedy’s nomination to the full Senate, has yet to schedule a date for a confirmation vote.
With Republicans controlling the Senate by a 53-47 majority, Kennedy can only afford to lose the support of three GOP senators if Democrats unite against his confirmation.
And besides Cassidy, two other Republicans on the Health Committee – Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – are potential “no” votes on Kennedy.
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Collins on Thursday questioned Kennedy about vaccines, herd immunity as well as his views on Lyme disease. Kenendy pledged that there’s “nobody who will fight harder for a treatment for Lyme disease.”
A 50-50 vote in the full Senate would force Vice President JD Vance to serve as the tiebreaker to push the Kennedy nomination over the top, as the vice president did last week with the confirmation of another controversial nominee, now-Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Christian teacher fired after refusing to comply with trans policy praises Trump order
A Christian former teacher who was fired after refusing to comply with her school district’s transgender policies celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order Wednesday targeting gender ideology in K-12 schools, calling the moment “surreal.”
“I’m on cloud nine,” Jessica Tapia told Fox News Digital.
“The very thing I was fired over —the tide has completely turned. Now, it’s the teacher who participates in socially transitioning a student that is going to be in trouble. Not the other way around, like it’s been for the last several years,” she added.
Trump’s executive order, entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” calls to eliminate federal funding or support “for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.”
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The order, which also targets critical race theory in schools, directs state and local attorneys general to work with the U.S. Attorney General to enforce the law and take action against teachers who violate the law by “sexually exploiting minors,” “unlawfully practicing medicine by offering diagnoses and treatment without the requisite license; or otherwise unlawfully facilitating the social transition of a minor student,” it says.
Tapia, a former tenured physical education teacher in California’s Jurupa Unified School District, was fired in January 2023 after she refused to comply with the district’s gender policy, which, she says, directed teachers to hide children’s gender transition from their parents and use students’ preferred pronouns.
Tapia explained that the district was initially made aware of her opposition to gender ideology by posts on her social media account discussing her faith and conservative beliefs. After being pulled out of her classroom and into several meetings, the district said it could not grant her religious accomodation request and terminated her.
She filed a lawsuit against her former employer in May 2023, alleging she was deprived of her free exercise of religion and freedom of speech. Tapia reached a $360,000 settlement with the district a year later.
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The Jurupa Unified School District did not admit any fault or wrongdoing, saying of the settlement last year, “The settlement is not a win for Ms. Tapia but is in compromise of a disputed claim.”
“The settlement certainly does not state or prove any illegal action or discrimination by the District. The District continues to deny any illegal action or discrimination against Ms. Tapia,” a statement from the district read.
Tapia, who now homeschools her young children, has become an advocate for other teachers, parents and students who see their moral convictions at odds with these sorts of policies in schools.
“I’ve heard from thousands of people all across the nation of how grateful they are for the stand I took,” she told Fox News Digital.
She continues to share her story and counsel other teachers going through similar ordeals, encouraging them that it’s worth it to “stand firm in the truth,” no matter the cost.
Finding out about Trump’s executive order on Wednesday was a surreal moment for the former teacher, who lost her job exactly two years ago.
“Just to see Trump come in and immediately make these changes served as such affirmation for me, like, ‘You really did do the right thing,'” Tapia said. “It’s hard to find the words for how I felt learning about that. Almost surreal, honestly, because again, it’s like now the tide has turned so completely.”
Tapia said she was thrilled that more teachers and parents would be protected under the law.
“Teachers have been walking away in droves, leaving education because of what it’s become. And so hope is definitely rising,” she continued.
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Trump’s order was met with criticism from the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers’ labor union in the nation.
AFT President Randi Weingarten accused Trump of unfairly tarnishing teachers and making their jobs more difficult with the executive order.
“Today is a sad day because the Trump administration is doing exactly what it accuses others of: creating division and fear in classrooms across America,” Weingarten wrote in a press release.
76-year-old former NBA star uses anti-Trump hashtag — quickly deletes post
Former Cleveland Cavaliers star Austin Carr took a swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday as he congratulated some of the team’s players for making the All-Star Game.
Carr, who serves as a TV analyst for the team, took his swipe in a post on X.
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“Cavs have three all star, congrats, well deserved GO CAVS #ImpeachTrumpNOW” he wrote in the now deleted post.
The 76-year-old known as “Mr. Cavalier” did not specify why he wanted to impeach the president, but later tried to explain what happened in a follow-up post.
Trump addressed reporters from the White House briefing room earlier in the day after nearly 70 people were presumed dead when an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
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He set his sights on DEI standards at the Federal Aviation Administration and highlighted efforts by the Biden administration to lower aviation standards, though he acknowledged that the cause of Wednesday night’s crash has yet to be determined.
“We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system,” Trump said. “Only the highest aptitude — you have to be the highest intellect — and psychologically superior people, were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers.
“We have to have our smartest people. It doesn’t matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are. What matters is intellect, talent. The word ‘talent.’ They have to be talented geniuses,” he continued. “We can’t have regular people doing that job. They won’t be able to do it.”
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Trump later attributed the crash to a “confluence of bad decisions that were made.”