"Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch," Buttigieg wrote on X.

Former US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has hit back at Donald Trump, branding the US president “despicable” after he attempted to blame him for this week’s deadly plane crash in Washington,