Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a new $1 billion federal grant program to make the experience better in airports, a program that he suggested could include workout areas.I want to expand the play areas for kids, Duffy said while announcing the funding at the Ronald Reagan National Airport yesterday. I want additional nursing pods for nursing mothers. I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing, doing some pull-ups or some step-ups. Related Pete Buttigiegs replacement threatens unpaid air traffic controllers for not being patriotic Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today I dont want you to have a full-body sweat going on till you stink, he said. But if you do a few good pull-ups, get your blood flowing, I think thats positive. This is not like go to the gym, sweat and get on an airplane.Duffy and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. then had a pull-up competition at the airport. Kennedy got 20 in the contest, although his form was questionable. Duffy, with better form, got 10. Last month, Duffy announced a new Department of Transportation initiative aimed at getting people to be more polite and dress better when they travel by air. And so sometimes you just have to ask people, hey, lets maybe go back to an era where we didnt wear our pajamas to the airport, he said on Fox Business. We actually might dress up a little bit. And if somebody needs help putting their luggage up in the overhead bin, help them out!Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:"Sometimes you just have to ask people, Hey, let's go back to an era where we didn't wear our pajamas to the airport. We actually might dress up a little bit" pic.twitter.com/t0C9gozqFe FactPost (@factpostnews) November 19, 2025 Duffy has spent the past year blaming the massive problems air travel in the U.S. has faced this year on his predecessor, out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. He said that Buttigieg didnt work hard enough to modernize air traffic control equipment and wasinstead focused on frivolous problems, like climate change.Buttigieg, though, didnt do anything to get even simple gym equipment into airports during his tenure at the Department of Transportation, and he didnt even try to do a single pull-up at an airport during a press conference. Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.