The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation
The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation
Lmao he’s still going bsky.app/profile/atru...
it is not dangerous to ride the nyc subway you lying coward
He will lose that tan before he leaves,
I wonder if donnie's ever ridden the subway.
he's a little bitch.
Not terribly important, but is one of the qualifications for cabinet secretary (maybe the only qual?) that they put bronzer everywhere but their eyes?
So do all Dump cabinet members have to put on hide spray tan?
The Real World went to the tanning salon.
Shiny Sean just keeps getting shinier. Good lord.
Secretary of Transportation John Rocker
He sounds like my RWNJ coworkers when I went to NYC for a week last year, "but aren't you scared?" No! I was wandering around at midnight by the Brooklyn Bridge area and no one messed with me, why are they so afraid all the time?
Always nice to remind them that the same Fox News that's making them think New York City is what you'd get if Thunderdome fell into disrepair broadcasts from midtown
True story:after years away from. NY, I rode the subway repeatedly over a 2wk period; clean, timely, good a/c, occasional well-mannered (really!) panhandler.
Fantasy:I drove upstate,got lost in no-cell-signal area.Rang doorbell to ask for directions.. & this old guy shot me. So, you decide which is safer.
Delegitimizing federal transportation funding for cities. I bet the rural highways get money, though
Sure
Duffy seems to be taking orange tanner points from Dump. Race to see who’s more orange?
Every day it’s the same interview, his face just gets a little more charred so you can tell from the color wheel that it’s not the same clip as the day before
Add “sunscreen” to the list of things they’re scared of.
He got an “orange” guy
Never thought the DT orange look would catch on, but here we are. White little goggle eyes and all.
Yes - he really learned his bronzing technique from Trump.
It’s not a good look, but they’re vain and tasteless. 😒
He wants the clean subways of North Korea
So far in 2025, NYPD reports 778 major crimes in transit system – 40 fewer than last year. Only 2009 had fewer such crimes during this stretch of calendar. Remember - There are 3 million riders / day!! Felony assaults in subway are up 20% compared to same time last year, up from 70 to 85.
His foundation selection for today is called 'Greasy Roasted Sweet Potato'
Another overtanned conservative numbskull.
the stupid liberals are half this country,sir! and we help pay your undeserved salary. bring back Pete B. best Secretary of Transportation ever.
Would like to see a world in which every instance of "Sean Duffy" in the news is expanded to "former 'Real World' cast member Sean Duffy"
True Story.
Fearmongering. It's part of the fascist playbook. Duhffy doesn't understand his job.
I can't tell if NY is like an Escape from NY hellhole, or the most peaceful place Earth.
I'd rather he wrap his head around a light pole.
Why pick 2019, why not 2023? Because it won't support their message.
Is there anything he's not afraid of? What is he, the boy in the bubble?
Just keep a running tally of everytime he does this.
Someone’s been playing with daddy’s bronzer.
As a Wisconsinite, I apologize for this feckless POS.
What a snowflake
I read this while on the Trolley in San Diego to go to the VA today... Kind of a metaphor for this bullshit right now!
"Man public transit sucks! Someone should really do something about it!" -The Sec of Transportation himself
Back in the Bush Jr years, he (Bush) said in one speech that raising taxes on the rich isn’t worth it because “the really rich will just dodge the taxes anyway.” 1/2
2/2 One response I saw to that; “Wow, a whole segment of the population not paying their taxes? Sounds someone in a position of power should do something. Perhaps we could elect someone.”
A bus never collided with an Army Blackhawk over the Potomac...
I Can see why these two are not invited to other people’s dinner parties.
Bullshit. I live in Chicago and take the el all the time in the City That Works! It is the best way to get to a protest! 💪💪
What the literal fuck is he trying to do? Ever secretly wish a giant sink hole would suddenly open up right under a specific person? I do.
So he travels by horse?
I have often said that the white men I know prefer to drive their own cars rather than take public transportation for any reason, and to live in a single-family house rather than a condo.
Who is actually scared of taking the train? It's absurdity theatre.
I've known people scared to take the bus but perfectly ok with taking an uber. Makes no sense.
Huh, that sounds like it could probably be blatant racism and classism, and openly hating being around working class people. Especially in cities.
He accurately represents the mindset of the Trump Cabinet. They are squeamish about their own support base and are unhinged when it comes to facing folks who are homeless, sick, can't work and need some help. Returning America to greatness means classism and bigotry led by judgmental arseholes.
Phobias don't make sense.
Nice self own idiot. You are the Secretary of Transportation.....
He definitely does NOT understand his assignment.
Maybe you should work on that Mr transportation asshole!
We are living in a very long Simpsons episode. Or is it Black Mirror? 😞
Conservatives always hated public transportation. ripped up trolleys for roads, fought commuter rail forever. We only move forward on public transportation with democrats. Afraid of being around anyone not like them. It is racism and a desire to stay away from the working people they exploit
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Dude’s a total “beta”…like all #MAGAtards…😂😂
We always used public transportation in Chicago, it made it so much easier to get to where we needed to go without dealing with traffic jams.
You can take the CTA from both airports- thats amazing
We usually take the Amtrak train from Indy so we don't have to worry about cars at all. So much easier.
How on earth does he function in the real world?
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
To think, we went from Pete to this unqualified racist moron.
“Transportation” is only chauffeured limos.
I’m genuinely curious… Do these people have friends? Do they go have drinks? Do they have spouses and family? …to step away from being angry to laugh and talk and realize that the world isn’t perfect ?
He's such a wimp!!!
Yes, four million people a day should commute to their jobs in New York City in their cars.
... to own the libs...
Exactly!
Famously great solution in LA! www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/than...
By cars you mean giant pickup trucks with small beds
Yet somehow tens of millions of people in the US use public transit every day.
including old people & children but this dude is too scared
Fox is officially the state sanctioned propaganda network.
He’s right to be terrified of public transportation. Once I got on the L in Chicago and 3 kids followed me on! Then they started saying things like “Dad I want a snack” and “Dad are we there yet” and I remembered I have kids. Scariest day of my life.
Oh I have stories from riding transit in Chicago and one from Seattle. But my method was to out crazy the crazies.
The worst thing that ever happened to me in Seattle was being seated on the #1 when an elderly lady got on at first and Jackson. I tried to stand to give her my seat when I found there was no standing-up room I would fit into; she poked me in the ribs with her umbrella all the way to 12th.
Surely you could have taken the space she had occupied by seating herself in your seat? I would have asked others to squeeze out of the way to allow this to happen! T'fer the responsibility to their shoulders not possible? 🤔
Unfortunately the second law of thermodynamics prevailed.
Errrmm, so your entropy increased? 🤔
pls don’t call my mother an ‘old lady’ & offer her ur seat. she gets v upset when ppl remind her she IS actually old.. 🫣🫣😁
That was 40-odd years ago; I'm old now and the word "elderly" makes me rage.
😅😅👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪
Idiot.
That's because his job is to dismantle public transportation.
Public trans allowed me to live on a modest income and develop my skills to where i am today. shame on him.
In Japan the trains are spotless. Maybe it’s not the trains. Maybe it’s the Americans that ride them…
If it’s supposedly as bad as he says why not fucking FUND IT MORE TO MAKE IT BETTER????? Isn’t that his job??
He’s really trying hard not to understand the needs of low income and city dwellers who take it for convenience and cost.
Trying to talk us out of it so they can cut funding.
Republicans are always uncomfortable around normal people and I would too if I spent every second trying to strip them of everything they have.
Imagine being weaker than every disabled person(like me) who has to ride public transport
Oh is the wee wittle privileged white boy seeing reality for the first time and scared at how ppl have to survive in the “real world” or just unsure how things actually work cuz he is so inept, they are also not mutually exclusive. Scared white man complains on tv rather do his job or help others.
Another fragile cream puff
He is disgustingly disgusting. He clearly has no cares or vision in his looking down at the American community.
It's jurassic park when the fences fail
Gotta love how he vilifies public transportation. Good Americans drive Swasstikars
Then what is he doing, to rectify the situation?
youtu.be/pZcdwhgcrXU
Little weirdo weakling!
Has he thought of giving up this position and just not do this job? Then he won’t even have to think about public transportation
So, clean it up?
Yo, Lumberjack Champion, why don't you focus on the system outages at Newark Airport. You know, the airport you won't let your wife fly out of because it's not safe.
Once they privatize your public transportation you guys'll be pretty screwed
Sounds like he’s admitting that big strong MAGA he-men are more frail and timid than “snowflakes”.
To be fair, lying on TV is all he knows
I know, it's kinda weird.
I think the secretary of transportation is just trying to make public transportation more relatable. I mean, who hasn't had a pants-pissing terrifying experience on the train, am I right?
I think he's terrified of other people. I imagine it's because most intelligent people think he is a steaming pile of garbage and avoid him at all costs.
Tell this clown to visit Europe, Japan or China to see real public transit.
This is a man who has literally never been on public transportation.
Also in service of his agenda of…making it worse for some reason?
you can tell he has been a sheltered person to be terrified of riding public transportation. Another reason why he is unqualified- if you don’t experience public transportation in USA and get outta DC bubble- how can you be a damn effective Sec of DOT? He needs to resign
Like anything else, they fear what they don’t know. I ride the subway and buses every day - and I’m still alive. Just try it!
the plan is pretty obviously to obliterate an existing public transportation and force everyone into government subsidized elmocabs
Wouldn’t it being dirty and unsafe his problem to fix??
It’s clear he won’t be riding the bus.
He talks like someone who has never ridden a bus or a train. Such a fool!
And he has no plan at all to fix it. Just wants everyone to know his excuses ahead of time.
Larry Kudlow is a nipple-less boob.
People get hurt driving cars, every day.
Love MTA. Piss off Scruffy Duffy
His purgatory will be to forever ride on public transit, different types, different cities around the world. People forever trying to talk to him, ask him for money, kiss him. What ever his horror is. I've been on NYC subways, they aren't so bad.
Currently relaxing and riding to work on a clean and quiet subway train. After walking to the subway station. When I get to work, my coworkers driving in from suburban sprawl will all complain about traffic congestion. It's like a mass brain disorder forced on people by terrible urban planning.
Another unqualified merit white boy.
What happened? Did he ride the Metro Green line and got off at Gallery Place by mistake and is now lost in China Town.
Insanity! When Pete Buttigieg had this job, he worked tirelessly to make things better. He didn't cower!
Demographics. The racial composition of Hayward includes 89.92% White, 5.49% Native American, and smaller percentages for Two or more races, other race, Black or African American, Asian and multiracial populations. Public transportation is the “Casino” busline.
Also just tiny. And it calls itself a "city". Feh.
There are high schools with larger numbers of students
How very cosmopolitan Amazing..
I hear that now he lives somewhere in New Jersey. Likely not in a city 😂
It's more disgusting than we thought. www.tiktok.com/@respect2687...
😂😂😂 Right next to Bedminster! How convenient.
Tell me you’ve never been on public transportation without saying you’ve never been on public transportation.
Pants-pissing terrified is such a great description! And yet in NYC alone 3.6 million use the subway and busses every day. New Yorkers are more “alpha.” www.mta.info/agency/new-y...
As if he’s ever used it. 🙄
Everyone who's anyone has their own private driver.
Clearly one of those MAGA "alpha" males.
So do something about it…? Right? Isn’t that what he is supposed to do?
To paraphrase his colleague, not very Warrior Ethosy.
Must have seen two men kissing and gotten panicked over the feelings it gave him.
The fuck is he talking about?
I mean... Is it because he's the kind douchebag who gets his ass kicked for not giving up the handicap seats?
BREAKING: scared old white man who’s never been to the big city complains about big city he’s never been to in front of other scared white guy on Republican-Nazi propaganda network.
“Prey upon the good people” Translation: prey upon the white people.
Who does he think he is; Robert Moses?
I rode the New York City subway multiple times daily for 11 years and never once witnessed a single crime. But I witness drivers committing crimes —mostly excessive speeding—on the roads where I now live in Rhode Island every single time I go out.
Terrified of losing fossil fuel donors?
Then shut-up and fix it bitch!
Clearly, he hasn't flown commercial lately either.
He's definitely no Pete! I miss competence from someone who didn't get his "experience" from Real World Road Rules Challenges.
If it's dirty, then spend some of that tariff money and clean it up.
there are criminals in the white house...
Conservatives claim to be the “tough guys” and the “bad asses” but they turn into the most delicate weepiest little bitches the moment they’re confronted with real life.
Is he saying liberals want people to take public transportation so they can be assaulted? How does that make sense?
The good people. Whoever they are, you are not one of them
They are really afraid of big cities.
a guy like that would be terrified of being around poor people
#PAB
Is he one of them thar elitists I've heard so much about?
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What pos. It is far more dangerous to get in your car and drive.
Deplorable
MAGA wants to widen the divide between urban and rural
Almost sounds like he’s not the right “man” (and I say that loosely) for the job.
He should be afraid of landing in #Newark.
Is the punchline that he never has used public transportation?
I mean... I'd watch. And eat popcorn
I’d prefer some advanced notice so that I can make sure the lighting and grip are set up, but modern EO sensors deliver pretty good 8k video with ambient.
Absolutely terrifying.
100%
The various skin melanin levels in the seats and this placard on the wall would be enough to send most MAGAts to their fainting couches...
So he can strike fear to lower ridership and eventually defund.
Snowflake.
What a racist moron!
He’ll be supporting the horse and buggy next. And trump will write EOs making it mandatory. They lost in NY, so now moving on…
If Duffy is so concerned about the dirt and supposed crime engulfing NYC transportation then possibly he needs to stop doing almost daily interviews and do some work to fix the problem. If not, then he needs to just shut up!
I'd love to hear him define what a "criminal element" is.
And MAGAs claim that Democrats are elitist. Smh.
I travel on the Philadelphia public transportation system all the time. I have NO idea what Transportation Secretary Duffy's talking about! Seems pretty clear he's talking about Charles Bronson's movie Death Wish. Sounds like he's as familiar with subways as Trump is with grocery stores!
>> So if you're riding public transportation, you're either a criminal or their prey. Oh, and you're dirty. <<
No. He wants to justify privatizing it, so there is none. This admin wants everything turned into a profit center.
Tell me you're in the pocket of the Auto Lobby without telling me you're in the pocket of the Auto Lobby.
What a cowardly prejudice wuss!
Too bad he doesn't spend the same amount of time coming up with a plan to fix it!
Dead, 86 these nihilists .
What an a-hole!
Meanwhile, planes rain from the sky
Classic Snowflake
His only stint on public transportation was being toted around on RealWorld/Road Rules. Not much experience there for Duffy.
I ride the bus everyday and now feel like Superman
Stupid people are often angry and scared.
Maybe he just needs some big-boy pants.
Took public transportation for years. Never had a problem. Imagine that.
All I think is what a fucking coward that a grown man is too afraid to take public transportation yet millions of women and even children take it daily. Sad little dude.
Has he considered making it clean and safe?
He’s never taken public transportation.
Why doesn't he just crash and burn? I am tired of these mental midgets!
He needs to go home the big puss
Oh,shut up.
we are stronger than them
Snowflakes ❄️ Have never seen a more appropriate meme for MAGA Morons Literally scared of their own shadows
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Farming fear, per usual, I see. On a personal note, I used to love taking the train wherever, whenever, when I lived in NY. The sense of freedom and time to look out the window and contemplate my thoughts. And I am sad it's not really so much of a thing here in NC , but I digress.
They want to cut funding for public transit. They are laying the groundwork
I’m not American, maybe it’s different there, but surely he’s literally responsible for any problems with public transport.
WTAF?
What is his alternative? people still have to get from point A to point B What does he suggest should replace cheap public transportation? Nothing He's just too stupid so he complains and does nothing Wait Of course he is getting ready to stop all federal subsidies
Duffy went from a town of 2,500 on Lake Superior to getting chauffeured everywhere in big SUVs. I doubt he has a clue that people in cities need busses and trains to get to work. Especially since his party won't allow many of them to make enough to afford cars and insurance.
You’d think he would have learned about the MBTA during Real World-Boston. Maybe he was frightened of the big, mean choo-choo trains.
That’s not to say people shouldn’t have access to public transit, I think that’s very important for metro societies and I really think Duffy would agree with that. But I also think denying that our subways have a crime problem is silly and ignorant, and it also puts lives at risk.
While you might be right partially, I don’t think that’s his point. He’s talking about opportunistic criminals that see subways as an advantage in more ways than one, from fare hopping to robbery, assault, auto theft (if the station has parking). Lots of bad stuff happens on buses and trains.
While my post was glib and off-point, it was justifiably motivated by anger and disgust at his framing. Millions of U.S.-ers use public transpo every weekday, out of necessity, practicality or climate concern. He's the U.S. Transpo Sec, lambasting liberals instead of offering solutions.
Kinda related, I'm a nerd when it comes to trains and public transit. I've always thought trains are cool, since I was a kid. So when public transit is jeopardized by poor planning, rampant crime, decaying infrastructure, etc etc it definitely bums me out.
I.e., if you Google MBTA red line right now you'll see a good example of transit workers not doing their job. Luckily they were held accountable this time.
Yeah, when people shirk their jobs, endangering public safety, they must be held to account. I'm sure this is not a unique occurrence. What angered me most about the Duffy clip, as abridged as it was, is how it's of a piece with the denigration and dismantling of public-benefitting institutions.
That's fair. I don't like when either side tries to vilify each other. He is right in the sense that it's usually liberals that advocate for public transit. But I don't necessarily think liberals are to blame. It usually boils down to people in the sector that aren't doing their jobs.
Oval office is dirty as a criminal sits in a diaper behind the desk
He's talking about the whole trump administration..
Well, he secretary, let him fix it! Doubt he will - he’s a whiner
I often remember a phrasing by CityNerd on YouTube about how so many people can’t tell the difference between a legitimate threat and something that just makes them mildly uncomfortable.
Aww he doesn’t get invited to dinner parties anymore. Look inward you cowards.
I guarantee that wanker has never ridden on a subway.
Pretty much every single cabinet department is run by someone who actively scorns the subject matter of their department, but this might be the funniest example of it.
I feel the same way if I have to walk into an evangelical christian church; creepy pedophile pastors, shifty eyed men, nasty bigoted women.
here’s an idea, you the head of DOT, maybe FUCKING FIX IT
he hates and fears the public
I wonder if he's ever ridden on public transport, or if he got this bias from horror movies. Anyway, if public transportation is broken it's his job to fix it.
We come from the UK where public transport is cheap, accessible, & eco friendly - especially for seniors. It is the same in Europe. Before Trump, we used to visit New York regularly. The subway was clean, reliable & a pleasure to ride. Why do the arrogant elite in the US look down their noses on us?
What is wrong with this guy?
They never even try to consider solutions that would actually benefit everyone, literally just doing whatever nonsense their heads concoct
The problem is you have to see people that are less well off than you. With all the red state Christians avoiding the poor, how does that make sense?
Cars kill 40,000 Americans every year, but sure, public transit is dangerous 🙄
Who would kill our high school seniors if we didn’t have cars though?
Their costume all day/everyday. Btw I took public city transportation for 10 years...at all ends of the day and night. Never once did I feel unsafe. Not once. Ever.
What’s he doing to fix it? Does he have a plan?
This dangling turd probably has a driver, never mind needing transit. #EatTheRich
@aoc.bsky.social Please go on SubwayTakes and read this man to filth.
My wife and I routinely take the public transit when in Atlanta, Chicago and New York. It's not the Ritzy, but it's a bargain and the trip is always entertaining!
He is no longer a member of Gen X.
I prefer Transportation Secretaries who aren’t scared of public transportation.
He grew up in fucking Hayward, WI. Of course he's terrified of everything in the Real World*. *pun intended
Those are the reason I like public trans. Mostly it’s reliable and clean and safe. But at weird hours the weirdos come out. But they’re not dangerous so…
Biggest puzzys ever
He needs to read his job description
I just watched a video of Jodi Foster riding the subway and Harrison Ford, but Duffy, the big bad transportation secretary who cries on Fox with his daily bigotry and anti Democrat nonsense is tooo scared.
If we lived in a pretend country, all these cartoon character government officials would be funny. 😔 Noem, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, Kennedy, Bessent, Duffy, Homan, Bondi, Wiles, Rollins, McMahon.
Why are they so against this policy of NY? Is it inconvenient for Melania or something?
Rode LA Metro last week from Redondo Beach to the Convention Center and back. It is fine. Yep some unhoused people. Some others may not have paid. Why would I care? Got me there for $1.75.
sounds like Doral?
gonna bet when the military parade tanks fall into a sink hole over the DC subway he's gonna be skeereder.
So if i'm to understand what hes saying, lib-rawlzzz want ppl to take public transportation, he's aware that theres a WHOLE dept for that, but its filled with dirty, poor and homeless ppl and those are crimes. Oh and "someone should really do something about it!" -the literal sec of transportation.
Wait, isn’t his literal job to fix any of those problems? WTF
He will always be Puck Rainey's sloppy second.
He only drives his Tesler.
He's a total ass. To sneer at and contemptuously talk down to and about ppl who use public transport. A Kansas tornado should drop a house on him
Sean Bitchmotherfucker when he goes near a train:
I live 2 blocks from the Howard Red Line station in Chicago. This p*ssy Sean Duffy would be afraid to walk my quiet, tree-lined block.