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Buttigieg Comments At Trump’s Press Conference
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Buttigieg Comments At Trump’s Press Conference

Pete Buttigieg is upset, which can only mean one thing: the truth hit a little too close to home.

After President Trump addressed the nation following the horrific plane crash over the Potomac River, he did something few politicians in Washington have the backbone to do—he spoke the truth. He consoled the nation, offered prayers for the victims and their families, and then, without hesitation, pointed out the elephant in the room: the catastrophic failure of leadership that took place at the Department of Transportation under Pete Buttigieg.

Now, anyone who’s been paying attention knows that Buttigieg’s tenure at the DOT was an unmitigated disaster. His department oversaw a historic rise in near-miss aviation incidents, botched supply-chain crises, and, lest we forget, a toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which he completely ignored until he was shamed into action weeks later. So, when Trump called him out for his incompetence, Buttigieg did what all failed bureaucrats do—he ran to X, feigned moral outrage, and tried to shift the blame.

Instead of accepting any responsibility for the mess he left behind, Buttigieg accused Trump of “lying” and claimed that his administration had “put safety first” while “driving down close calls.” That’s an interesting claim, considering the sheer number of aviation near-disasters that took place on his watch. Let’s review:

  • February 2023: A Southwest passenger jet was cleared for takeoff while a FedEx cargo plane was cleared to land on the same runway—the two came within 100 feet of colliding.
  • January 2023: A United Boeing 777 and a Cessna nearly crashed into each other in Honolulu, missing by just 1,170 feet on the runway.
  • January 2023: A Delta Airlines flight narrowly avoided colliding with an American Airlines plane in New York.
  • December 2022: A United Airlines plane departing Maui came within seconds of plummeting into the ocean.

And that’s just in the span of two months. But Buttigieg wants America to believe that he was making air travel safer? Please. The only thing he accomplished was making near-misses so common that the media stopped reporting them out of exhaustion.

And what was Buttigieg doing while all this was happening? Was he leading? Was he addressing the crises he was supposed to oversee? Not exactly. He was busy taking extended paternity leave in the middle of a supply chain meltdown. He was pouring money into “gender-equity initiatives” that funded female crash test dummies instead of fixing real infrastructure problems. And when disaster struck in East Palestine, Ohio, he was nowhere to be found—until public outrage forced him to finally show up, weeks late, and pretend to care.

But now, after a mere nine days of Trump’s presidency, Buttigieg has the audacity to blame Trump for the state of the FAA? The very agency that Trump is currently cleaning up after years of Buttigieg’s disastrous leadership? It’s laughable.

Trump is once again stepping into a broken system, trying to fix what the previous administration destroyed. Newly confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has already vowed to overhaul the failures at the FAA, and Trump has made it clear that accountability is back on the table.

Written by Arthur Higgens - February 2, 2025