"We think we have some pretty good ideas" how this disaster occurred, Trump said, adding "we will state some personal opinions" on what happened, saying investigation details come too slowly.
Buttigieg was pointed at specifically for unwinding the first Trump administration standards for ATCs, claiming the transportation secretary thought the ATC workforce "was too white."
Buttigieg "was a disaster," Trump said, excoriating his longtime political rival as only having a "good line of bullsh*t."
Buttigieg responded, blaming Trump, criticizing the sitting president for politicizing the tragedy while he politicized the tragedy himself in response.
"Despicable," Buttigieg wrote on X. "As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.