Nepo Baby Donald Trump Jr. Claims Pete Buttigieg Got Trans Sec Job to Check Off Diversity Box

When the entire aviation world came to a standstill last Wednesday due to computer breakdown, it didn't take long for some Republicans to blame transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg. Chief amongst them was Nepo baby Donald Trump Jr., who claimed on Twitter than the ex-Democratic Presidential candidate only got the job because he was gay.

In a tweet, DTJ said: "It boils down to people who get really important jobs with no experience to basically check off some identity politics boxes, folks. You know, Mayor Pete." He then explains how his presidential campaign gave him leverage when Biden came to picking his cabinet. "And guess what, when you don't get that, if you get in line with the Democrat Party, we'll give you a major cabinet position where it doesn't really matter in the age of equity. Remember not equality because equality means like of opportunity, not of outcome. In the age of equity, there seems to be some scary stuff going on at the FAA and guess what when you're 36,000 feet in the air, maybe you just want a competent person they're. Not someone who checked the box, like, to me, Mayor Pete did."

Trump's tweet was seen at least 320,000 times.

"On Wednesday, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system outage saw flights grounded for several hours across the U.S,," wrote Newsweek about the flight delays. "More than 6,000 flights had been delayed as of 10:48 a.m. ET, according to data from the flight tracking website FlightAware, with over 1,000 flights cancelled."

DTJr's sentiments were shared by Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, who also called out Buttigieg on Twitter. She wrote: "Every plane in America is currently grounded due to a system error. Mayor Pete, bravo. This is what happens when you hire clueless liberals for jobs they aren't qualified to do."

For his part, Buttigieg used social media to inform the public about the delay and its resolution.

Just before 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Buttigieg took to Twitter to update that the FAA's NOTAM (notice to air missions) system had been restored.

He wrote: "FAA has determined that the safety system affected by the overnight outage is fully restored, and the nationwide ground stop will be lifted effective immediately. I have directed an after-action process to determine root causes and recommend next steps."

In a follow-up tweet, Buttigieg addressed concerns about the fault potentially resulting from a cyber attack.

"At my direction, FAA is continuing its system review. Preliminary work has traced the issue to a damaged database file, with no evidence of a cyber attack.

"FAA will continue its work to further pinpoint the sources of this issue and steps to prevent it from occurring again."