Newsmax guest calls bike lanes “communist garbage”
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From the May 7, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Chris Plante: The Right Squad
MATTHEW FOLDI (GUEST): Pete Buttigieg, who was completely MIA. He vanished from the job of transportation secretary. No one noticed whatsoever. By the way, I would beg to Sean Duffy to also declare war on bike lanes. These are some of the most un-American, European —
HILARY FORDWICH (GUEST): No one's in them.
FOLDI: Communist garbage.
DANIEL LIPPMAN (GUEST): You never bike around DC?
FOLDI: Absolutely not. I have a car like a normal American.
FORDWICH: Can I actually say I lived in Amsterdam? You know what it's like? It's the whole year round. It's between 55 and 61. Here it's freezing cold in the winter, the sleet in the winter. It's boiling hot and humid in the summer. The weather doesn't even conducive to it here.
FOLDI: You know, what's also not conducive to bike lanes is bicyclists using them. We know that they don't use them. But Pete Buttigieg was a completely MIA transportation secretary. Now he thinks, because he grew a beard and goes on podcasts, that he can be president. But he was such a disastrous failure. And now it's nice to have someone who actually shows up.
SCHLAPP: Yeah, well, and get rid of the bus lanes, too.