Trump’s weird reaction to flight crisis proves he’s lost all interest in his job

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US President Donald Trump responded to the nationwide flight ground stop with a series of unrelated social media posts and left his aides to reassure Americans (Photo: Samuel…

For a man who tells Americans that their country has now entered a new “Golden Age”, President Donald Trump did literally nothing this weekend to shore up rapidly sinking public confidence about the safety of air travel in the United States.

From the moment his government’s Federal Aviation Administration ordered only the third complete ground stop at all American airports in US history, paralysing the travel industry and causing untold disruption to millions of passengers, Trump absented himself from the public conversation.

On Friday night, as the crisis escalated, the usually garrulous US leader made no effort to call any of the US television news networks to calm the public and assure them he had the problem in hand.

He did not call any of his favoured reporters to urge the nation to remain patient.

He failed to use his Truth Social account to offer any words of sympathy to affected families, many of them stranded at airports where they were receiving only paltry and disjointed information.

Instead, at 5.52pm on Friday, right in the middle of the crisis, his social media account published an incongruous diatribe about the urgent need to “MAKE OUR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY GREAT AGAIN!” – an effort to entice the film industry back to the United States after it “largely moved to Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries”. Trump insisted “the actors, producers and all others involved want to come back home!”.

That absolutely nobody was, at the time, able to come back home only served as the icing on the cake, but then irony has never been this president’s strong suit.

The President has appeared strangely detached since his humiliation in the midterm elections, responding to the brutal repudiation of his government by the American people with an extraordinarily tone-deaf rant about the construction of his extravagant White House ballroom.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (a former lumberjack and reality TV personality) and Secretary of Homeland Security…

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