Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s pregnant daughter had a bad travel experience Thursday morning, and she’s letting everyone know about it on social media by blasting the TSA and their “rude,” handsy ways. In her tweets, she described the frustration that so many of us feel when we are forced to go through the annoying, often dehumanizing ritual of emptying our bags, taking off our shoes, or possibly even being pulled over for a pat-down (yes, it’s happened to me more than once. Good times).
Why do we have to go through this, Evita Duffy-Alfonso wondered:
I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner. The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman…
— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) December 18, 2025
The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s “safe.”
Yes, I bet all of us have had the experience of rude, power-drunk agents barking orders at you and treating you as if you’ve somehow committed a crime. Of course, not all or like that — there are plenty of polite professional ones as well — but all it takes is one jerk to cloud your journey.
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Duffy-Alfonso was incensed by the “invasive” pat-down she was forced to endure, and wondered why it was OK that people with money could just pay their way through the hassle by getting a CLEAR verification:
After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn’t even good at its job. Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I’d handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country. Is this freedom? Travel, brought to you by George Orwell—and the privilege of convenience based solely on your willingness to surrender biometric data and submit to radiation exposure?
Then she came down with the hammer and threw down what some will deem a radical solution: get rid of the Transportation Security Administration altogether.
The “golden age of transportation” cannot begin until the TSA is gone.
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In another tweet, she tagged both President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and said the TSA “violates the Fourth Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional. Pls abolish.”
Now you might be wondering, is her father Sean going to be furious over these tweets? We don’t know his reaction at this point, but the TSA is not under his jurisdiction; it’s under DHS and its secretary, Kristi Noem.
He isn’t in charge of TSA. TSA is under DHS, which is run by Kristi Noem. If he did have TSA, he’d radically limit it and lobby Congress to abolish it.
— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) December 18, 2025
Despite her experience, Duffy-Alfonso, whose husband, Republican Michael Alfonso, is running to represent Wisconsin in the House of Representatives, and whose mother, Rachel Campos-Duffy, is a Fox News host, wanted to make it clear that she is a supporter of the administration and their work on keeping us safe:
“To be clear, I am 100% behind all that @POTUS & @DHS has done to keep out terrorists and illegals, especially at the border. In fact, President Trump & @Sec_Noem aren’t getting enough credit for achieving zero illegal border crossings and stopping deranged terrorists from coming into the U.S.,” Duffy-Alfonso wrote in another post on X.
Sometimes, when you’re standing in a long line and watching the people in front of you get humiliated, you might think, “The terrorists won. This doesn’t seem very American.” Almost everyone hates the security lines, and Duffy-Alfonso’s experience is hardly an outlier. Her call to abolish the TSA will likely be applauded by many, but it is also true that there are bad people (terrorists) out there who want to hurt us, and the last thing we want to do is inadvertently let them on airplanes. There doesn’t seem to be an easy answer to the problem.
Noem has already made one huge improvement, though: in July, DHS announced that travelers will no longer be required to take off their shoes. That’s actually a pretty big deal, one which they announced in a funny video:
Welcome to the Golden Age of Travel! pic.twitter.com/3yzvbx1fbI
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 20, 2025
They must continue to strive to streamline and improve the process — and get rid of despotic and disrespectful agents — and prioritize the humanity of those they lord over (however briefly). Otherwise, as Duffy-Alfonso wrote, a return to the “Golden Age of Travel” will remain but a dream.
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