Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer actually tried to blame the Trump administration for the Mexican Navy accident over the weekend, where a tall training ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge.
This is definitive proof that Schumer’s criticisms of Trump have just become a reflex that is cartoonishly stupid.
He tried to imply that DOGE related cuts at the U.S. Coast Guard were somehow to blame. Watch:
Mexican Navy ship loses control and rams into a bridge.
Chuck Schumer: Trump and DOGE must be held accountable.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 19, 2025
The Coast Guard has responded, and they have completely rejected this idiocy.
FOX News reports:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested that the Department of Government Efficiency may be at least partly responsible for a Mexican navy tall ship crashing into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night.
Schumer made the claim in a press release on Sunday, saying he had been briefed on the details of the deadly crash, which left two people dead and over a dozen more injured. Schumer argued that a U.S. Coast Guard system may have been operating at partial capacity due to a DOGE hiring freeze at the Department of Homeland Security, but the Coast Guard itself says the system was “fully functional during the incident.”…
The Coast Guard rejected Schumer’s claim in a statement of its own. Furthermore, there were no other ships involved in Saturday’s crash that would have involved the VTS.
The Coast Guard told Fox News Digital that VTS was “fully functional during the incident and operating in accordance with established procedures to manage commercial traffic and facilitate safe navigation.”
Schumer even posted this stupidity on Twitter/X and still hasn’t taken it down.
With the Brooklyn Bridge strike last night:
I’m fighting for answers about whether Trump and DOGE have impacted water traffic control.
We know they’ve been meddling with U.S. Coast Guard staffing.
Trump relieved Admiral Linda Fagan as Commandant of the USCG, and that position…
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 18, 2025
This is just embarrassing. Do Democrats realize they are being led by deeply unserious and stupid people?
