Nearly 20-year shoe-off airport security policy is ended by Trump administration
FOX: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday the immediate end of the shoe-off requirement at TSA security checkpoints at every airport nationwide.
Sec. Noem announced the end to the nearly 20-year policy while at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in a press conference late Tuesday afternoon.
“In those 20 years since that policy was put in place, our security technology has changed dramatically. It’s evolved. TSA has changed,” she said at the presser. more
This is a good start. Now, eliminate TSA entirely and we can call it a win!
testicle-squeezing-assholes, perform oral sex on male equipment. why do you mofos have jobs?
I flew a week and a half ago and I did;’t have to take my shoes off.
Related: when I was in line for security, a class of TSA recruits came into the area. You will never guess what I noticed about the group. Maybe the fact that it was Atlanta might give you a hint, but it would probably be the same most of the time almost anywhere.
Over 20 years of harassing old people in wheelchairs and fondling 10 year old girls and they haven’t caught a single terrorist. Most swarthy, Middle Eastern types are waved through.
Only if you have real id and are prescreened.
^^^RadioMattM WEDNESDAY, 9 JULY 2025, 11:10 AT 11:10 AM would that be people of a certain color?
Give that man a cigar!
I’ll see what happens tomorrow in an Anchorage-Seattle run.
It was ALWAYS theater. ALL of it is.
🖕🏿🖕🏿, and your fucking dei aeroplanes, you worthless fucksticks!
Ban muzzies from flying, all problems solved
just returned from england Monday. at no point did they have any interest in me removing liquids, my shoes, laptop out of my carryon. I did have to do the body scan and they check passport a few times through but overall they’ve got a quicker system in place to move you through. all fell apart when I got back, waited 40 minutes in a room with no air conditioning with 300 other people just to wait in a different line for customs just to have to guy wave me through after doing a once over on my passport. theater is spot on.
A short (for me) shoe story.
In 2006 I had to go to NOLA on business. My employer put us on Buddy Holly airlines so one leg my Cincinnati to NO trip was via Washington DC for airplane reasons.
It was an 0 dark early flight and in a post-911 world and with a long drive to the airport I had to get up even earlier than my usual 0400 start, so I wasnt necessarily running 100%. Also, to minimize spousal slumber disturbance I dressed in the dark including shoes, and at the time I was wearing sneaker steel toes for work as well as regular gym shoes at home.
This is relevant later.
Even though we were behind security the whole time TSA for God knows what reason decided to rerun all the passengers through their little rituals including shoe X rays, after I got moved to the special screening room where I was wanded, fondled, and interrogated to no purpose whatsoever, with no particular reason given, their inquistiveness stopping just shy of a short-arm inspection. My not being a spy must have been quite frustrating to my Federally appointed Confessor, as he at length broke down to the point where he actually got to the purpose of our meeting.
“WHY DOES ONE OF YOUR SHOES HAVE A STEEL CAP INSIDE?!?, my own personal Javert thundered.
Then it clicked.
I had put on one black gym shoe, and one black work shoe, and they were puzzled why anyone would do that.
So naturally they assumed it was for nefarious purposes.
…happily it was a long layover, so I had time to convince my still truculent but increasingly crestfallen would-be terrorist thwarters that I was honestly as stupid as I looked, and so eventually, grudgingly, reluctantly, they restored my fatuously felonious footwear to me and allowed me to lace up and go forth without further hindrance, although possibly with a parting dirty look or two; and then after reasuring my travelling companions that their names had not come up in the with the dawn in my diurnal discourses, we all went our way without further incident or need to contact the company for bail.
Strange thing is, they didnt say anything to me when I got on the tiny tube in Cincinnati, nor at any if the other three airports I passed through in my travels. Apparently only Dulles TSA even noticed before or after, so it was either some heightened bumbling Bush Jr. DC-specific kinder, gentler security thing (See? We check White boys too!) or someone in TSA had a male foot fetish, take your pick.
Wont happen again, tho, Im done with planes. Between DEI and Federal ID, and just plane (heh) hating the hassle, it matters not how I protect my piggies now as I keep all 10 of them firmly on the ground.
Known Traveler, Pre Check, Clear, all for this? I spent the dough and they stopped making the plebeians take their shoes off for nothing? I am indignant! Well, I never!
I always tell them that I can’t do X-rays, have metal in my body, and they’ll have to feel me up.
This apparently shocks them. It’s never been more than a few cursory seconds. I have no idea what the constant carrying on is about.
Does TSA still require that you take off your belt? Spokane County does that for admittance to the county courthouse. Why doesn’t everyone just fly naked and then there would be nothing to hide, I’m kidding. If I go to Padukah, Kentucky next year to visit my daughter, son in law and my 2 granddaughters I might just take Amtrak since they have a station nearby there within an hrs. drive. And besides I’m old school and I would find a cross-country train trip an adventure.
Before I retired, our department went to a major technical conference on the west coast. The I.Q. deprived TSA officers were in their heyday and were flagging 1 out of 5 people to go to extended screening. I was with a beautiful young lady that set off the metal detector. The guard was flagging down a supervisor to escort her to additional screening when she said WAIT.
She pulled off her T-shirt top and dropped her slacks right in front of the agent. She put them in a tub for the X-ray machine and walked thru the metal detector again. The beeper went off again and she stared right at the TSA agent and said find the violation. The guy was so dumbfounded that the entire line went thru while he watched her put her clothes back on.
Nope! Flying today.
I’m wearing RocketDog high top sneakers. They triggered something so I had to take them off, get them Xrayed in a different line and get a full pat down.
I am a very suspicious looking person ya know. 🤦♀️
I was at a TSA checkpoint recently and the TSA thugs were harassing another passenger and creating such a commotion I forgot to remove my shoes. Nobody noticed.
Geoff: No, we didn’t have to take our belts off the other week.