On Monday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, on his official X account, stated that he has invited personnel from Elon Musk’s SpaceX organization to the national Air Traffic Control System Command to conduct an evaluation and provide (hopefully) some advice on improving the system.
The post continues:
America deserves safe, state-of-the-art air travel, and President Trump has ordered that I deliver a new, world-class air traffic control system that will be the envy of the world.
To do that, I need advice from the brightest minds in America. I’m asking for help from any high-tech American developer or company that is willing to give back to our country.
Tomorrow, members of @elonmusk’s SpaceX team will be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in VA to get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system.
Inviting members of one of the premiere tech companies on the planet to take a look at our rather aging air traffic control system seems like a no-brainer. Secretary Duffy, based on a couple of recent exchanges with a certain former presidential candidate – in fact, the first one to lose to Donald Trump – expanded on his statement:
Because I know the media (and Hillary Clinton) will claim Elon’s team is getting special access, let me make clear that the @FAANews regularly gives tours of the command center to both media and companies.
Later in the week, I will travel to the FAA Academy in Oklahoma to meet with air traffic controller instructors and students to learn more about their education and how we can ensure that only the very best guide our aircrafts.
My door at @USDOT is open to any and all patriotic developers or companies who want to help our country in this incredible, game-changing mission. I hope to hear from any company committed to ushering in America’s golden age of travel!
Secretary Duffy was recently the target of some criticism from Her Imperial Majesty Hillary I, Dowager-Empress of Chappaqua; at that time, as we noted, he politely but firmly defenestrated her criticisms.
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Really, you would think that by now, the Dowager-Empress would know when she is so clearly out of her depth. But then thoughtful introspection has never been her strong suit, much as she would profit by that – or at least a little omphaloskepsis.
Elon Musk replied to Secretary Duffy:
This is, of course, precisely how these things should work. When a government system – like the national air traffic control system – is in need of improvement, the person in charge of that system should not be conducting a DEI survey to make sure that the proper mix of skin tones, plumbing, and choice of bedroom companions was obtained; nor should they appeal to the entrenched bureaucracy that got them to that bad state in the first place. Seek out actual experts; seek out the people who are already doing some of the most brilliant and innovative work on the planet. Seek out the people who are working to put humans on Mars, which nobody in government is seeking to do. Seek out the people who are operating one of the most creative skunkworks since the Second World War.
Like, say, SpaceX.
Secretary Duffy has the right idea. And Her Imperial Majesty Hillary I, predictably, will get it wrong – again.
EXCELLENT!