Podcaster bro Tim Dillon furiously took Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to task over his plea for airline passengers to “dress up a little bit.”
Duffy has been boosting a campaign to restore “civility” to air travel.
But Dillon, a prominent voice in the online so-called “manosphere” that is credited with fueling Donald Trump’s 2024 election win, tore into the “dress up” idea in particular on a recent episode of “The Tim Dillon Show.”
“Hey Sean, fuck, you,” said Dillon. “Hey, fuck you, by the way. Shut the fuck up. How about you get the planes in the fucking sky, you scumbag, and shut the fuck up.”
Dillon described the current day, whole experience of air travel ― citing delays, old airports and underpaid pilots ― as “hell.”
And after calling the former reality TV personality a “scumbag” and a “dirtbag,” Dillon snarked: “Why would I dress up when the plane doesn’t take off? Why would I dress up when the plane doesn’t leave the runway?”
Dillon then attempted to highlight Duffy’s advice as out-of-touch with a dark monologue about a grieving family only flying because they had to go and identify the body of their murdered daughter.
“That’s why they’re taking that flight, Sean. Maybe they don’t want to put on a nice holiday sweater. They’re going to identify to see if the body in the lake is their daughter. And they don’t have a lot of money so they’re on Frontier Airlines. And the body’s been in the lake for a few days, so it’s starting to… the stomach’s distended but the facial features are still pretty intact except where the wounds are. Maybe they don’t want to put on a nice pantsuit so they can go down to Austin, Texas, and identify the body in the lake.”
Dillon later suggested “a lot of” people only travel “because their lives are terrible.”
“Some of them are going to the holiday. Sure,” he said. “A lot of them are just leaving under the cover of night because they owe money and they’re trying to settle somewhere else. So, maybe they don’t feel like dressing up to get on a budget flight to Phoenix to work at another tattoo shop and hope this one works.”
The podcaster bro, one of several to break with Trumpworld in recent weeks, then slammed the Trump administration directly: “I’m sick of people in government going, ‘Well, the golden age of travel starts with you. Dress up. Be courteous.’ Hey, Sean. No one has any money. No one has any goddamn money, you fool. ‘Why isn’t everyone dressed up on the Southwest flight?’ Because everyone’s fucked, that’s why.”
