TSA Agent Unaware That D.C. Is a Real Place

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With Congressional approval ratings barely avoiding single digits, most Americans might want to pretend that Washington, D.C. doesn’t exist.  But as reporter Justin Gray, who was flying to Washington found out, there is one TSA agent at Orlando International Airport who truly does not believe that D.C. is a real place.

The report from WFTV begins:

“It’s something most of us learned in elementary school – the USA has 50 states and the District of Columbia.”

Not so for the TSA agent in question. Gray relays a recent confusing exchange at the airport:

“I gave the TSA agent my D.C. driver’s license.  After looking at it for a few seconds he demanded a passport.  I didn’t have my passport so I asked, ‘Why did he need it?’  He said he didn’t recognize my ID.  Now at that point I was a little confused, starting to realize what was going on and I said, ‘Do you not know what the District of Columbia is?  Washington, D.C.?  After some back and forth, it became clear – he didn’t.”

The TSA refused to respond to the reporter’s request for the number of complaints filed by passengers going through its security checkpoint at Orlando International.

It did, however, develop a plan to avoid further problems of this nature.

“TSA says because of what happened to me they’re now showing pictures of D.C. IDs to every TSA agent there in Orlando.”

Let’s hope they’re not receiving geography lessons from President Obama, who himself has traveled to 57 states, one of them named ‘Oihi.’

Watch the report below:

Rusty Weiss has been covering politics for over 15 years. His writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, Fox... More about Rusty Weiss

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