Chasten Buttigieg, who’s married to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, referred to as out Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for taking two of his sons on a presidential delegation to the Daytona 500 this previous weekend.
Duffy, a former Fox Information host, posted a video Sunday to the social platform X along with his sons, Patrick and John-Paul, proper sooner than they boarded Air Power One, which used to be headed to the Daytona 500.
“We’re about to get on Air Force One. I got Patrick and John-Paul. There’s just the back end of it,” Duffy mentioned within the video, gesturing to the again of the airplane. “Heading up to Daytona for the 500. Suit and tie. Beautiful day. Hopefully, the rain stays out.”
“But these guys, first time, Air Force One. The president is about to get here, so we’re going to get on, get rolling to Daytona. … It’s going to be great,” he added.
In a submit on X, Chasten Buttigieg spoke back to the video, recalling the blowback his husband confronted when he led a presidential delegation to the Invictus Video games, a wearing festival for wounded veterans, and took Chasten with him.
“I remember when Fox News absolutely melted when a certain Secretary took a family member on a presidential delegation,” Chasten Buttigieg wrote. “Let’s see how this one plays out.”
In 2023, Fox Information Virtual reported that the Transportation secretary on the time took his husband at the presidential delegation to the Invictus Video games and that they flew in a non-public army airplane.
Pete Buttigieg on the time identified that diplomatic protocol has lengthy been that the professional is accompanied by way of their partner and mentioned he didn’t reimburse the price of his husband’s shuttle. Buttigieg recommended there used to be a double same old implemented to him and his husband.
“Before me, it was the Secretary of the Army under President Trump who took that trip with his wife,” Pete Buttigieg mentioned when requested in a Fox Information interview concerning the reporting. “Before that, it was Mrs. Trump as first lady who went to the Invictus Games. Before that, Mrs. Obama did the same thing.”
“And I guess the question on my mind is, if no one’s raising questions about why Secretary Esper and his wife led that delegation — and as well, they should have — then why is it any different when it’s me and my husband?” Buttigieg persisted on the time.
The Hill has reached out to the Division of Transportation for remark.
