Our former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed the president’s “extraordinary weakness” on May 5, after the current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and gay Treasury Secretary blamed the recent shutdown of Spirit Airlines on Buttigieg and former President Joe Biden.
“Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still be trying to blame the previous administration, it really shows that you are out of ideas, out of solutions, and unwilling to take ownership of your own choices like this Iran war, that has cost so much already in this country and beyond,” Buttigieg said when speaking to journalist Jen Psaki on MS NOW.
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“It’s an extraordinary show of weakness, to see the Tr*mp administration, when you have something like Spirit Airlines, for example, going out of business because of jet fuel prices going through the roof because of the war in Iran, and they’ve made very clear that that’s why that airline went under, to have the Tr*mp administration desperately trying to say, ‘Oh, oh, no, this is actually, because three years ago, the Biden administration got involved in an antitrust case involving the airline,’” Buttigieg added.
“Everybody can see that what is happening is a direct consequence of the unnecessary, unpopular, and unsuccessful policies of the Tr*mp administration,” Buttigieg added.
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Earlier in the week, Buttigieg posted to social media, “You can’t lower gas prices by blurting out the names of a few Democrats. The administration needs to stop its crazed policies that cause so much economic pain.”
“This happened on Trump’s watch because he doubled fuel prices by taking our country to war, which drove Spirit out of business. Obviously,” he added, noting that Spirit Airlines specifically cited rising gas prices as the reason for its abrupt closure.
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