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Secretary Sean Duffy appears desperate to avoid blame as air travel concerns pile up
The transportation secretary said problems with air travel should’ve been fixed “during Covid, when people weren’t flying.” Wasn’t Trump in office then?
This!
— Jon Martin Kitchen (@kitchen5203.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T19:29:30.501Z
Secretary Sean Duffy appears desperate to avoid blame as air travel concerns pile up www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/faa-sean-duffy-air-travel-rcna206529
But I was struck by how, exactly, the former Fox News personality tried to avoid blame.
“The cracks that you are now seeing today were highlighted actually over the last four years,” Duffy said, adding, “[T]he president was understanding the cracks at the end of his administration and was going to fix it four years ago. But the last administration, they did nothing about it.”
I’m not altogether sure what the Cabinet secretary was even trying to say — I think he was making an effort to explain Donald Trump’s disinterest in the issue during his first term (remember “infrastructure week”?) — but the idea that the Biden administration “did nothing” to address systemic issues is the exact opposite of the truth.
But there was one other comment of particular interest.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3loymw57q6x27
“We didn’t have to be here,” Duffy said. “This did not have to be our story. Over the last four years, the last administration, they knew this was a problem. And by the way, during Covid, when people weren’t flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems.”
I don’t mean to sound picky, but it’s astonishing just how often Republicans forget who was president five years ago.
The “perfect time” to work on systemic issues was “during Covid”? Perhaps — but does Duffy remember who was president “when people weren’t flying”?
I’ll give him a hint: It wasn’t Joe Biden.
“The cracks that you are now seeing today were highlighted actually over the last four years,” Duffy said, adding, “[T]he president was understanding the cracks at the end of his administration and was going to fix it four years ago. But the last administration, they did nothing about it.”
I’m not altogether sure what the Cabinet secretary was even trying to say — I think he was making an effort to explain Donald Trump’s disinterest in the issue during his first term (remember “infrastructure week”?) — but the idea that the Biden administration “did nothing” to address systemic issues is the exact opposite of the truth.
But there was one other comment of particular interest.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3loymw57q6x27
Link to tweet
“We didn’t have to be here,” Duffy said. “This did not have to be our story. Over the last four years, the last administration, they knew this was a problem. And by the way, during Covid, when people weren’t flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems.”
I don’t mean to sound picky, but it’s astonishing just how often Republicans forget who was president five years ago.
The “perfect time” to work on systemic issues was “during Covid”? Perhaps — but does Duffy remember who was president “when people weren’t flying”?
I’ll give him a hint: It wasn’t Joe Biden.
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