It’s one of the more obviously flawed ideas embraced by both President Donald Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk: That government should be run like a business.

While no cause has been determined in the Washington plane crash, President Donald Trump was quick to try to assign blame on Thursday to Democrats, DEI and other factors.

The US president says the army Black Hawk involved in Wednesday's collision was above the 200ft altitude limit for helicopters.

During a White House briefing with reporters Thursday, President Donald Trump said weak DEI hiring policies in the FAA during the presidencies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden likely led to Wednesday fatal crash over the Potomac.

After briefly offering his sympathies to the families of those killed in the crash, and confirming there were no survivors, he pivoted to assigning blame for the tragedy - taking aim at his political

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors. Sixty-four people were on board the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. Three soldiers were on the helicopter.

"That performance was disgraceful. And every single senator and member of Congress should call them out for how disgraceful it was."

MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton said on “Morning Joe” that Trump "has a racial obsession and he’s using whatever race-baiting he can to get elected." Kaine agreed with Sharpton on Friday, suggesting that Trump was using “race-baiting” to distract from his latest actions.

Trump appeared to resume the role of blamer-in-chief in the aftermath of Thursday's fatal plane crash, surveying the tragedy as just another American citizen asking questions, rather than as the leader of a nation dealing with its first commercial air disaster in 15 years.

President Donald Trump on Friday asserted that the US Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in Wednesday night's deadly mid-air collision near Washington, DC, was "flying too high".

An American Airlines flight crashed into the Potomac River after colliding with a helicopter near the Reagan National Airport. President Trump and Vice President Vance have expressed condolences.

Rescue crews will return to the Potomac River on Friday morning as they continue searching for victims of Wednesday night’s deadly midair collision.