Susan Sarandon Rips Pete Buttigieg Amid Airline Disaster: “Being Smart Doesn’t Necessarily Make You Practical”

Actress Susan Sarandon expressed contempt for President Joe Biden’s U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg over his failure to address the travel disaster that transpired over the holidays.

“I guess being smart doesn’t necessarily make you practical,” Sarandon tweeted of Buttigieg on Wednesday.

I guess being smart doesn’t necessarily make you practical. https://t.co/b1Rh8FsM2i

— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) December 29, 2022

The Thelma and Louise Star responded to David Sirota’s tweet, which he wrote. “Documents show that before this week’s travel disaster, state officials of both parties warned @SecretaryPete about the mess, begging him to crack down.”

Sirota added that Buttigieg “responded by going on national TV to insist travel ‘is going to get better by the holidays.’”

Three months ago, Transportation Secretary told Late-night comedian James Corden believes that holiday travel will improve.

Buttigieg has reportedly ignored state attorneys general’s repeated requests to protect customers and hold airlines accountable for canceling flights in the months leading up to the ongoing holiday travel fiasco.

This winter storm has caused thousands of cancellations and delays to holiday travel. The majority of these were at Southwest Airlines. (Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images).

As a result, this year’s Christmas holiday travel season has been plagued with thousands of flight cancelations, primarily by Southwest Airlines, which failed to regain its footing after a massive winter storm hit the United States.

Travelers who relied on Southwest Airlines to bring them home as of Thursday morning were mostly satisfied. still stranded. This occurred barely 24-hours after Buttigieg publicly upbraided the carrier and warned it to do better — or else.

Tired Southwest passengers ended up looking for alternative airlines or even renting cars to get them on their way as Southwest’s CEO said it could be next week before the flight fiasco is over.

The airline is currently in continuing to cancel thousands of flights day by day — canceling nearly 5,000 flights in two days alone — as it attempts to recover from what it has described as “operational challenges.”

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