"He's been personally demanding that this guy be gotten rid of, and so, he got it. FAA chief was out on Inauguration Day," the MSNBC anchor states.

In the fall of 2024, the tech billionaire said the FAA administrator should resign after the agency fined his company over safety issues.

Rachel Maddow tells the story of how the former FAA administrator, Michael Whitaker, fell afoul of Elon Musk and was driven from his position upon Donald Trump taking office. With Trump's negligence ...

Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Whitaker resigned on Jan. 20, just days before a deadly collision ...

Following the catastrophe of Flight 5342, President Trump named an interim replacement for the vacant position of FAA ...

The billionaire has clashed with the Federal Aviation Authority on several occasions – and he’s set on taking the skies away from them ...

During the campaign, Musk demanded the resignation of FAA administrator Michael Whitaker, who clashed with Musk over regulating SpaceX and stepped down the day before Trump took office. That left the ...

In addition to the elimination of the safety committee, the FAA is currently without a director. Michael Whitaker was supposed to serve a five-year term after being appointed in 2023. Trump megadonor ...

"President of America stood on national television and said the reason a helicopter flew into a commercial jet was because of diversity in the work place..." ...

On Wednesday, a plane with 60 passengers and four crew members onboard had a midair collision with a Black Hawk Army helicopter.

"Breaking: Donald Trump is reportedly furious with Elon Musk for convincing him to push out the head of the FAA because Musk was mad SpaceX got fined last September by the FAA for license violations, ...

Users resurfaced the year-old post after U.S. President Donald Trump baselessly blamed DEI for a deadly midair collision in January 2025.