'Let them eat road trips!' Sean Duffy pilloried for cheery response to $4.50 gas

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cheerfully downplayed rising fuel costs as the result of President Donald Trump's war in Iran, and he was pilloried on social media.

The Transportation Secretary was asked by reporters Thursday at an event in Philadelphia about average gasoline prices surpassing $4.50 per gallon, and Duffy justified the president's war and insisted that prices weren't too high to consider a road trip.

"We live in a very different world, and I just don't think we've...