Dress code for flying? What does the Trump administration want people to wear on airplanes and why?
Trump transportation Secretary has now proposed guidelines on what he wants people to wear while flying.
It does not arrive on a train, in the middle of broad daylight, posters flapping and flags battling the wind. It comes step by step, in the middle of the night, when all appears well; the scales on the snake do not change as you reach the head, the part that can bite.
In a sensational round of comments that push the administration closer to authoritarianism than ever, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has told Americans how they should dress when flying.
For just one second , forget about the rife cronyism, corruption, and illegal deportation sweeping across US politics. What Sean Duffy said is the most absurd (non-life-destroying - an important qualifier) thing that the Trump administration has come out with to date. Those who the American people voted into power have turned their attention to, at least temporarily, how ordinary, law-abiding citizens go about their daily lives in the free world which America claims to lead.
Sean Duffy eliminated fines for airlines that delay or cancel your flights — making it easier for them to disrupt your travel.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 22, 2025
His grand alternative?? Wear a nice dress on the plane. https://t.co/6ef0r45RPL
“I would encourage people to maybe dress a little bit better”
North Korea obliges its citizens to have a certain haircut; Pete Hegseth told the US military to get rid of the beards. North Korea bans blue jeans in the street; Sean Duffy wants to ban slippers on aircraft. Are you seeing it yet? The authoritarian creep is turning into a jog in the United States, and the people are sleepwalking into it.
Under the guise of “bringing civility back“ - I don’t know where it went - the fashionista remarked that “you know, whether it’s a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little bit better, which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let’s try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport. I think that’s positive.”
In a strange piece of propaganda posted onto YouTube, Duffy’s Department of Transportation spliced footage from the 20th century with today. In the archived videos, it shows calm airplane passengers taking to their seats before cutting to modern videos taken from camera phones of angry passengers causing a stir.
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The recent footage selected more often than not showed black and latino passengers causing trouble, while the people presented as calm and law-abiding in the older videos were, as you may expect for various reasons (I need not say), all white. They’re not even hiding it anymore.
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