‘I am livid’: Canadian CEO blasts ‘narcissist in Washington’ after an employee lost his family in plane crash caused by Iranian missile

Not all observers faulted only Iran after the nation admitted to firing a missile that downed a Ukrainian commercial airliner in Tehran and killed 176 peoplelast week. On Sunday, the chief executive of a Canadian food giant took to the company’s corporate Twitter account to seemingly blame President Trump for the deaths of Canadian citizens aboard the plane, including the wife and child of a Maple Leaf Foods employee, after Trump inflamed Iran to retaliate to the U.S. drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani earlier this month.

“A [Maple Leaf Foods] colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran,” Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain tweeted. “U.S. government leaders unconstrained by checks/balances, concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes.”

McCain did not name Trump, but blamed the downing of the airplane on “a narcissist in Washington” that had escalated tensions between the United States and Iran to a “feverish pitch” in the days after the president ordered the drone strike in Baghdad. McCain said he was “very angry” after one of his employees lost his wife and 11-year-old son in the crash. Continue reading.