Chasten Battigeg, who is married to former Transport Secretary Pete Battigeg, called on Transportation Director Sean Duffy after taking his two sons to the presidential delegation to the Daytona 500 last weekend.
Former Fox News host Duffy posted a video on social platform X with her sons Patrick and John Paul on Sunday.
“We're about to board Air Force 1. I got Patrick and John Paul. Duffy said on video and gestured at the back of the plane. “In a 500 suit and tie.” Heading to Daytona for a beautiful day. Hopefully there will be some rain.”
“But these guys, for the first time, have one Air Force. The President is about to come here, so we're on board and rolling to Daytona. …It's going to be great,” he said. added.
In a post of xChasten Buttigieg responds to the video, recalling the blowbacks his husband faced when he led the presidential delegation to Invictus Games, an athletic competition for injured veterans, and bringing Chasten along with him. I went.
“I remember when a particular secretary took his family to a presidential delegation and when Fox News absolutely melted,” writes Chasten Battigigue. “Let's see how this unfolds.”
2023, Fox News Digital The then transport secretary reported that she took her husband to the presidential delegation to an in victus game and jumped into a civilian military aircraft.
Pete Batrig pointed out that diplomatic protocols have been accompanied by officials for a long time, and that he said he would not refund the costs of his husband's trip. Buttigieg suggested that double standards were applied to him and his husband.
“It was President Trump's Secretary of Army who traveled before me with my wife,” Pete Battigeg said. I asked in an interview with Fox News Regarding the report. “Before that, Mrs. Trump was the first lady who went to the Invictus game. Before that, Mrs. Obama did the same thing.”
“And I think the question in my mind is that if no one ever questioned why Secretary Esper and his wife led the delegation, they should do so too. And that's me and me. Why is that different when she is husband of? Buttigieg continued at the time.
Oka reached out to the Ministry of Transport for comment.
