Trump issues statement on DC crash: ‘May God bless their souls’

President Trump released a statement on the deadly collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington D.C. Wednesday night, thanking first responders. Later writing on social media, “The lights were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn… why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevente