Biden-era issues with air traffic controllers appear to be fading away thanks to President Donald Trump ditching DEI policies.

According to Just The News, President Trump has prioritized meritorious applicants in job hiring instead of DEI quotas, which has set air traffic control networks on a path to growth in recruitment and skill.

Following numerous DEI scandals in the air traffic management industry, President Trump took immediate steps by announcing the “best and brightest campaign” alongside Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

The campaign targets avid video game players and others predisposed to faster processing speeds. Secretary Duffy addressed these new applicants in an X post, saying “they problem-solve, they’re spatially aware, they do multiple things at the same time.”

Duffy also noted tremendous increases in recruitment numbers, announcing that over 2,000 applicants have been hired by the Department of Transportation following the rollout of the best and brightest program.

Duffy’s program was bolstered by President Trump’s Merit Hiring Plan (Executive Order 14170), which enforced hiring based on skill replacing the Biden-era metric of minority quotas in government jobs.

The Trump administration broke a barrier of hiring procedure by encouraging gamers to work in air control units.

Using targeted YouTube advertising and messaging to appeal to the video gaming community, the Department of Transportation recruited a crop of new younger applicants with improved skills thanks to their knowledge of technical gear.

Contrasting these efforts to streamline and strengthen the air traffic control systems, the Biden administration consistently pushed for further expansion of DEI measures in these critical areas of the government responsible for keeping Americans in the air safe.

Both the Obama and Biden administrations hired people with severe mental instabilities to take up these tasks in order to fulfill purely symbolic diversity quotas.

President Trump put an end to these policies, working closely with Secretary Duffy to ensure the air traffic workforce was staffed with experts selected solely for their adeptness.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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We have imported millions of people who do not share our values, do not speak our language, and do not love our country. Even worse, many actively hate our country. pic.twitter.com/ua4jzhxXfh

— Victor Nieves (@ItsVictorNieves) August 31, 2026

We have imported millions of people who do not share our values, do not speak our language, and do not love our country. Even worse, many actively hate our country.

Such appears to be the case with a recent Somali refugee who was caught on video attempting to destroy an American flag in broad daylight.

The Gateway Pundit reported,

The man charged with stealing an American flag from a Minnesota medical office, dragging it behind his car, and coming back to shred it is a Somali citizen who was born in Uganda and came to the United States as a refugee, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Libs of TikTok.

The suspect is 24-year-old Mahamud Hassan Mahamed, who has been booked on a misdemeanor tab charge of fourth-degree damage to property after the Wednesday incidents.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Mahamed ripped the flag down in the morning, attached it to his vehicle, and dragged it until bystanders chased him off and recovered it.

Mahamed returned that afternoon and shredded it.

Jail records showed he was held on $2,000 cash bail or $200 conditional release.

It appears Mahamed has since been released and is due back in court in December.

Mahamed already had a live felony file for threats of violence from an April incident at his apartment building. A hearing in that case was scheduled for the same Wednesday as the flag attack.

America is facing a national identity crisis. We have enough problems of our own.

The last thing that we need to do is import millions of people from dissimilar cultures who hate our nation.

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US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has resigned from his role, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Dan Driscoll resigned after months of tension with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Driscoll’s departure comes after US Army Chief of Staff Randy George was fired in April.

“Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Trump following months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the direction of the service and the ouster of numerous senior Army officers,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

“He is expected to leave the Pentagon in coming days,” WSJ reported.

Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction with Hegseth https://t.co/IuCWdVsLH9

— WSJ Politics (@WSJPolitics) August 31, 2026

Fox News also reported that Dan Driscoll resigned.

WATCH:

BREAKING: Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has RESIGNED, per Fox

This comes after MONTHS of butting heads with War Secretary Pete Hegseth over the firings of many top Army Generals

Driscoll is a close ally of VP JD Vance, and was expected to stay around until at least… pic.twitter.com/oAXmLpd1hG

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 31, 2026

Last year, Dan Driscoll told Politico’s Dasha Burns that there is no difference between men and women in combat.

Dan Driscoll was pushing woke gender policies while Pete Hegseth was fiercely working to dismantle the Biden-Obama era rules.

WATCH:

Earlier this week, I released an exclusive report about how Army Secretary Dan Driscoll @SecArmy has been aggressively working to undermine Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in an effort to steal his job. My report has since gone viral, and high level sources at @DeptofWar tell me it… https://t.co/qOftfiykTH pic.twitter.com/fXeZYc86j2

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) December 5, 2025

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Vice President JD Vance absolutely unloaded on far-left Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Monday after the Democrat repeatedly targeted Second Lady Usha Vance and members of Vance’s family.

Vance, who is in Michigan campaigning for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, made it personal after El-Sayed spent weeks smearing Usha Vance.

“Now, the last thing I’ll say about Abdul, Mr. El-Sayed, is he has a weird habit of talking about my family. Have you noticed this? Yeah,” Vance said.

“You know, look, I don’t know who his wife is. I’m sure she’s a lovely person, but I would never come to this state and disrespect you or disrespect somebody’s family by talking about another person’s wife, a person who isn’t on the ballot. And yet, Abdul El-Sayed, every time they put a microphone in front of his face, he wants to talk about my wife or my grandfather.”

Vance noted he is “feeling especially protective” because the family has a 5-week-old baby at home and Usha “is doing great and taking great care of him.”

Then he dropped the hammer.

“My message to Abdul El-Sayed is you can pal around with terrorist sympathizers and you can say that America deserved 9/11, or you could empathize not with the children who were targeted at Temple Israel, or— but with the attacker. These are all despicable things, but they’re all things that the people of Michigan will judge you on based on your record. But I actually think that the people of Michigan think it’s kind of weird. When you talk about another guy’s wife. I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about the public policy ideas you have to make their ideas better.”

He continued: “I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about how you’re going to protect autoworkers when you’re supporting every single policy that has undercut the wages and jobs of Michigan autoworkers your entire life in public service.”

“But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth because she’s way out of your league.”

WATCH:

.@VP JD Vance unloaded on radical Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Monday, blasting the far-left candidate for his “weird habit” of attacking Vance’s wife, @SLOTUS Usha Vance, and his family instead of talking about policy. pic.twitter.com/Iq7KfG9hOU

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) August 31, 2026

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that El-Sayed took what many interpreted as a race-baiting swipe at Usha Vance, who is Indian-American, after the Vice President criticized the Democrat’s radical record.

“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…” El-Sayed sneered in an August 22 post on X.

The remark came after Vance said he would like to go back in time and tell his late grandfather—a lifelong working-class Democrat—that the modern Democrat Party had nominated a candidate who equated opposition to Sharia law with white supremacy.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, El-Sayed’s cheap shot appeared to suggest that Vance’s white, working-class Ohio family would not have accepted Usha because of her ethnicity.

Usha responded with grace, saying she “kind of laughed” at El-Sayed’s attack because Vance’s family had always treated her with love.

“His aunt is like a second mother to me,” Usha said. “I have to think that, if they raised children like that, they would’ve been loving as well.”

Michigan will decide in November whether they want more of radical socialist El-Sayed or whether they prefer a senator who actually represents working families instead of attacking them.

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Another violent scene erupted in the heart of New York City on Monday afternoon when NYPD officers shot a knife-wielding woman who was reportedly accused of stabbing two people in Times Square.

The police-involved shooting unfolded shortly before 4:30 p.m. on Monday, August 31, near West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue, smack in the middle of one of the busiest tourist destinations in America.

CBS New York reported that officers rushed to the area after receiving a radio call for a “person with a knife.”

The New York Post reported that the suspect was a knife-wielding woman who had allegedly stabbed two people before officers shot and wounded her.

Dramatic video circulating on social media captured the chaotic scene as NYPD officers confronted the armed woman before gunfire erupted.

An eyewitness who recorded the scene said the attacker slashed the person standing right in front of him.

“This lady was running around stabbing people in time square. She straight up stabbed the person in front of me. Shit could’ve been me,” posted NYC rapper and producer Austen (@austen_tv).

You can watch the video here.

According to Gothamist, the officer-involved shooting occurred at approximately 4:27 p.m. The NYPD immediately launched an investigation.

Police warned New Yorkers to stay away from the area following the shooting.

“Expect traffic delays, road closures, mass transit disruptions & emergency personnel near 42nd Street & 7th Avenue, Manhattan. Avoid the area,” the NYPD said, according to CBS New York.

The latest bloodshed comes as Times Square and its massive transit hub have been rocked by a disturbing string of violent incidents.

Just days earlier, an on-duty MTA cleaner was stabbed after confronting a man who was allegedly urinating on a Times Square subway platform. The 30-year-old worker suffered a severe laceration to his arm and was transported to Bellevue Hospital. The suspect escaped aboard a downtown No. 1 train.

And on Monday morning, just hours before the police shooting, the NYPD publicized its search for another suspect accused of stabbing a 35-year-old man in the head at the Times Square subway station earlier in August. Police said that attack began as a verbal dispute before the suspect pulled out a sharp object and stabbed the victim.

In June, Times Square was also thrown into panic when gunfire erupted during another violent confrontation. A 26-year-old man was slashed in the neck and police said a 17-year-old later opened fire on the group involved in the dispute.

This is Times Square, one of the most recognizable locations on the planet and the front door millions of tourists see when they visit America’s largest city.

Yet another afternoon in Manhattan ended with knives, bloodshed, police gunfire and terrified pedestrians running for safety.

The investigation remains active, and authorities have not yet released the suspect’s identity.

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