Level Up?: Sean Duffy Boasts About Hiring Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers

Hiring gamers as air traffic controllers raises worries about safety and training shortcuts. The administration boasts about meeting hiring goals, despite concerns from experts and the public. Streamlining the hiring process for such a critical role is seen as reckless and irresponsible. Getty Images / Sean Duffy / FortniteAnother one of Donald Trump’s DEI Hires, Sean Duffy, is happy to report he solved the air traffic controller shortage he started when he fired thousands of workers a year and a half ago by fast-tracking gamers to fill those roles. We’re not sure if this is gonna help frequent flyers feel any more confident when they board an airplane, but do know that an expert-level Fortnite player will be ensuring airplanes don’t crash into each other in the sky. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the reality star, now the Transportation Secretary of the United States, boasted about the “accomplishment” while sharing a video featuring people of color and/or women, which, hilariously, goes against everything this administration stands for. The post reads:In April, we launched a NEW CAMPAIGN to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers — and supercharged the entire hiring p...