Practically the moment the Reagan National Airport crash happened earlier this year, the media pounced with their favorite reflex: blame Donald Trump. It didn’t matter that the problems in our aviation system have been festering for years. It didn’t matter that some of the near misses they cited didn’t even happen on U.S. soil.
The narrative was already locked in — Trump did it — and outlets scrambled to fit every incident into that absurd framework. Never mind the well-documented decay of our air traffic control systems or the fact that these issues long predate President Trump’s return to office. The media weren’t interested in facts; they were too busy spinning fiction to give Trump credit for trying to fix a mess he inherited.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy didn’t let them get away with it. In a heated back-and-forth with reporters, Duffy called out the press for pushing what he described as “a known falsehood.” He made it clear that the real fault lies with the last administration, which burned through more than a trillion dollars and still left behind a crumbling aviation infrastructure.
“I understand you’re placing a lot of the blame on the previous administration,” a reporter said, pressing Duffy. “But these problems are happening now… under the second Trump administration. Are you just unlucky, or are there some real issues that need to be addressed?”
Duffy didn’t flinch.
“If you buy a used car, you drive it home, go to bed, wake up the next morning, drive to the store, and it breaks down, is it your fault or is it the guy that sold you a lemon?” he said, drawing a sharp analogy. “The media tries to say, ‘Oh, this infrastructure is failing under the first 100 days of the Trump administration or Sean Duffy as secretary.’ And I think that is a known falsehood — known lie — by the media.”
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Duffy didn’t mince words about the previous administration’s failure to address long-identified problems in the aviation system. “You all know that it’s been cracking, those of you who cover aviation. There’s been telltale signs, there’s been conversations, there’s been congressional hearings on this,” he said. “And the fact that the last administration did nothing should be reported.”
He slammed the Biden-era $1.2 trillion infrastructure package as a missed opportunity. “They really invested zero in this massive infrastructure bill that America needs — aviation needs — and they didn’t pay attention to it at all,” Duffy explained.
Duffy also took aim at the culture and priorities of the previous Department of Transportation, mocking its obsession with politically correct language instead of tangible improvements. “Maybe when you work from home, or maybe when you work from Michigan as a secretary, you’re not focused on the real issues taking place throughout the airspace,” he said. “They were focused on what we call a cockpit versus a flight deck. We had to change ‘notice to airmen’ to ‘notice to air mission,’ right?”
“That was the focus, as opposed to, ‘You have a cracking system, and let’s get the money to fix it,’” he added.
Duffy was clear: the Trump administration inherited a broken system and has no intention of kicking the can down the runway. (See what I did there?) While the media attempts to rewrite the narrative, Duffy is making it plain: this mess didn’t start with Trump, but he’s the one cleaning it up.
Sean Duffy decimates a major MSM lie:
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) May 13, 2025
Reporter: "These problems are happening now...are you just unlucky, or are there some real issues that need to be addressed?"
Duffy: "The media tries to say, 'oh this infrastructure is failing under the first 100 days of the Trump… pic.twitter.com/g2CFCBIPZc
The press isn’t interested in accountability or accuracy; it's interested in scripting a story where Trump is always the villain, no matter the facts. It’s not journalism; it’s activism with a press pass. When every crisis becomes an excuse to smear the Trump administration, even if the roots of the problem trace back years, the media reveals more about their own agenda than anything else.
Duffy’s blunt pushback exposed that agenda for what it is: a desperate attempt to deflect from the failures of the past by pinning them on the only administration that is actually trying to fix things. And that’s exactly why the media’s credibility continues to spiral into irrelevance.
