“They will probably find a way to blame this on Trump. This model started selling in May 2016. If Trump had replaced all the Clinton/Bush/Obama FAA people in early 2016 they would have said that caused the design problems.”
I think you meant 2017 in each usage, though I was about to make a joke about Candidate Trump wielding so much power. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
You are correct. My brain knew it was 2017 but my fingers were thinking about how Trump was recently elected and inaugurated.