Before President Trump’s Thursday morning press briefing allowed the liberal media to tangle with him directly and make Wednesday’s deadly crash between American Airlines flight and a blackhawk helicopter all about Trump, the liberal media were left to their own imaginations Wednesday night to spin up evil and ghoulish conspiracy theories on their own.
Far-left social media influencer and former Vox writer Aaron Rupar unsurprisingly took the top prize with this nuttiness on X:
CNN senior political commentator and former Democratic South Carolina state senator Bakari Sellers deleted this X post:
Speaking of CNN and unsurprising hot takes, there was this on-air from CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip trying to blame Trump:
CNN's Abby Phillip tries to not-so-subtly move the conversation towards blaming Donald Trump and his new administration for the American Airlines-Blackhawk helicopter crash over the Potomac next to Reagan National Airport...
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 30, 2025
Phillip: "Look, it's January 29th. We are just nine… pic.twitter.com/JTOzxwQcCQ
Democratic strategist and past CNN guest Zach Petkanas joined in:
In another deleted post, New York Magazine features writer David Freedlander donned a tin foil hat that Trump was directly to blame for staffing issues with air traffic controllers (even though it’s arguably become a generational issue):
This drew in Zeteo founder, rabid Israel-hater, and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hassan, who quoted overtop of Freedlander’s X post with the sarcastic comment: “Totally not dangerous at all.”
Over on MSNBC, political analyst and New York Times reporter Peter Baker scoffed at new Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy’s government qualifications:
NYT's Peter Baker kicks dirt on how Sean Duffy "will be learning...on the job" how to respond to disasters since he was "a former Congressman, reality TV show -- I think he -- sorry, I think he's an athlete" pic.twitter.com/D01Ph6cHJV
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 30, 2025
In contrast, there was plenty of solid analysis, including from CNN aviation correspondent Pete Muntean (even though he went full Jim Acosta Thursday morning and afternoon) and MSNBC host Ali Velshi, whose hobbies include being a pilot.
Coronavirus pandemic Resistance star Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding held up a Huffington Post headline suggesting Trump “gutted” federal aviation (and thus caused the crash):
Progressive non-profiteer Michael Skolnik took up this causation conspiracy theory:
And Principles First founder and Never Trumper Heath Mayo used his supposed moral compass to smear Hegseth:
