Overview

• Chasten Buttigieg called out Fox News for its differing treatment of officials traveling with family on government-sanctioned trips.
• Sean Duffy, the current Transportation Secretary, brought two of his sons on a presidential delegation to the Daytona 500, sharing the experience on social media.
• Chasten Buttigieg compared this to the intense criticism his husband, Pete Buttigieg, faced in 2023 for taking him to the Invictus Games as part of a similar delegation.
• Pete Buttigieg previously defended the trip, citing long-standing diplomatic protocol allowing spouses to accompany officials on such delegations.
• Fox News has yet to subject Duffy's trip to the same level of scrutiny it applied to Pete Buttigieg's delegation two years earlier.