Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer truly tried responsible the Trump administration for the Mexican Navy accident over the weekend, the place a tall coaching ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge.
That is definitive proof that Schumer’s criticisms of Trump have simply develop into a reflex that’s cartoonishly silly.
He tried to suggest that DOGE associated cuts on the U.S. Coast Guard have been by some means responsible. Watch:
Mexican Navy ship loses management and rams right into a bridge.
Chuck Schumer: Trump and DOGE should be held accountable.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 19, 2025
The Coast Guard has responded, and so they have fully rejected this idiocy.
FOX News experiences:
Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer instructed that the Division of Authorities Effectivity could also be a minimum of partly answerable for a Mexican navy tall ship crashing into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night time.
Schumer made the declare in a press launch on Sunday, saying he had been briefed on the main points of the lethal crash, which left two folks useless and over a dozen extra injured. Schumer argued {that a} U.S. Coast Guard system might have been working at partial capability attributable to a DOGE hiring freeze on the Division of Homeland Safety, however the Coast Guard itself says the system was “absolutely practical through the incident.”…
The Coast Guard rejected Schumer’s declare in an announcement of its personal. Moreover, there have been no different ships concerned in Saturday’s crash that might have concerned the VTS.
The Coast Guard informed Fox Information Digital that VTS was “absolutely practical through the incident and working in accordance with established procedures to handle business visitors and facilitate secure navigation.”
Schumer even posted this stupidity on Twitter/X and nonetheless hasn’t taken it down.
With the Brooklyn Bridge strike final night time:
I’m preventing for solutions about whether or not Trump and DOGE have impacted water visitors management.
We all know they’ve been meddling with U.S. Coast Guard staffing.
Trump relieved Admiral Linda Fagan as Commandant of the USCG, and that place…
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 18, 2025
That is simply embarrassing. Do Democrats notice they’re being led by deeply unserious and silly folks?
