Trump, Just Now: Government Runs Airport Security Better than Private Firms Would (11/6/25)

At a White House press conference that is still going on, in response to a question about whether the TSA should be privatized (to avoid the funding problems we’re seeing now in the shutdown), Trump just said that air-traffic control and airport security should continue to be run by the government because it would “do it better.”

LOL. What a jackass. The TSA has a documented 95% failure rate, i.e., put a Glock pistol in a bag and 95 times out of 100 it gets past TSA. Not only could the airlines do far better (heck, pre-school kids would do far better), but how does Mr. Fairness justify the non-flying public paying for an agency that the flying public should easily be able to fund?  Coming from the guy who thinks tariffs are the engine of prosperity, it’s not a surprise.  He’s a stupid, New York crony-capitalist real estate developer left $400 million from his father.  Anybody with a pulse could have turned that into billions over the past 2.5 decades just by putting it in an index fund.

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