Fox host: Trump knows a lot about aviation because he buys planes and has pilots for friends
Brian Kilmeade: “He also knows a lot about travel, buys planes, right? ... He actually knows pilots, they become his friends.”
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From the January 31, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): And you know the biggest indicator for me, typically when there is a tragedy, we lose American lives, you know, the tone is more somber. When Sean Duffy went into that press briefing room, he was furious. I go, Sean knows something that we don't know. And as the reporting has started to come out, how could have you two people doing that job when you got a helicopter.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): One person doing the job of two people.
JONES: Exactly. One person doing the job of two people. That makes absolutely, I mean maybe you can you get away with that in the country area where there is not that many planes and air traffic going on there, but it's already a complicated airspace and you are trying -- you are more focused on diversity than getting the positions filled? That makes no sense.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): I think that CNN spent all night last night focusing on what Donald Trump came out and said, 'DEI is probably at the root of this' just to paraphrase, and say why are you bringing it up now? Well fundamentally, it might be at the root of this, and this is moving at a break neck pace. When are they going to get used to the fact that we have a president that says what exactly he's thinking. And he is a leader, but he's saying -- he also knows a lot about travel, buys planes, right? He has been flying a plane since 1980s. He actually knows pilots, they become his friends. He's also been in choppers, constantly because of the previous focus on Atlantic City coming from New York.