TSA Agents Have Allegedly Been Asked to Return $1,000 Gift Cards From Tyler Perry

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 30th, 2026, 7:21 pm


TSA agents have allegedly been asked to return $1,000 gift cards donated by media mogul Tyler Perry. As a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown that has left the Department of Homeland Security’s funding up in the air, TSA agents had been working without pay for six weeks. Callout rates skyrocketed to 10 percent and more than 500 TSA workers quit.

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay TSA agents all current and back pay as the partial shutdown stretches on. By Monday, some TSA agents received retroactive, partial paychecks.

Perry, who resides in a $100 million mansion in Georgia, first reportedly tried to distribute cash to TSA agents at nearby Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport before the executive order was signed. But, he was turned down as federal rules bar TSA employees from accepting cash gifts.

So, Perry and his team reportedly coordinated with airport officials, including management and human resources, before returning to the airport on March 27 with $250,000 in gift cards, each valued at approximately $1,000. WXIA, an NBC affiliate based in Atlanta, reported that the airport’s federal security director raised concerns about the donation and told agents who received the gift cards to return them to Perry.

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[FarPoint]

1. I say......

Screw that! It is a gift that was soooo needed....due to the failure of this Congress and administration.... I say this too...fuck them!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Why are the agents asked to return them?

They were freely given from someone who could afford it to help them out...

[BumRushDaShow]

4. That's part of the federal rules

And civil servants get read the riot act about "gifts" (anything valued over $25), to the point where if you go to a work-related training conference, they only allow you to have light refreshments between sessions but no vendor-provided lunch, as an example.

I know some of my co-workers have gone to China for work inspections and the Chinese have a deep cultural practice of giving/exchanging gifts to/with their guests, including before meetings. That situation can become awkward but I believe the feds will accept it but will turn it over to their bosses when they return.

[yardwork]

8. Trump accepts gifts all the time. Like airplanes.

[Marcuse]

10. He also violates the Hatch Act daily, but thanks to the Supremes he has presidential immunity.

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[BumRushDaShow]

16. All of his appointed sycophants violate it daily with impunity.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Yup.

"Rules" don't seem to apply to the GS-1000s and above.

[Norrrm]

3. So, Trump and republicans lied to claim democrats were holding TSA pay hostage.

So, Trump and republicans lied to claim democrats were holding TSA pay hostage.

All Trump had to do was sign an authorization.

[Delarage]

5. I hearby order Trump

To return the 747, the billions from the oil companies, the billions from Kushner's accounts, and every cent he's "earned" by selling out the US of A.

[Blues Heron]

6. What about homans paper bag with the 50,000 that's just fine?

[magicarpet]

7. What about the gift giving to the KKKrishtun,...

... Nationalists on the White Supremacist Supreme Court ?

Oh,.. that's right,.. for some reason they are exempt,... bribing them is A-Okay.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Why can't they accept gifts from other Americans, when the Commander-In-Chief can receive

a billion dollar plane from a foreign nation?

[mdbl]

11. So the TSA agents have to follow federal rules but.....

No one else does? Dump has broken the emoluments clause over and over and pardoned hundreds of treasonous rioters and the corrupted GOP majority does nothing as well as the compromised DOJ which might as well be run by the mafia. Also, is Clarence F'ing Thomas going to return his F'ing Winnebago? I am so sick of all these hypocritical assholes who think they are all above the law.

[orleans]

12. oh jeeze. then what if perry turned those gift cards into birthday presents and christmas presents for

a bunch of his friends?

or give them to the worker's spouse, oldest child, parent?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. I wouldn't give it back, if I was them.

Hell no!

[Grins]

14. Imagine: Instead of TSA agents, it went to IRS agents.

Would you be OK with that?

Or the clerk/investigators granting or denying permits. Or marriage licenses. Sanitation/health inspectors. Or police.

Nice gesture, but still wrong.

[MissouriDem47]

17. If government Workers Can't Receive Gifts

Why is Trump able to keep a jet airplane from a foreign country?

[Jacson6]

18. Well the plane was given to the us government not the Trumpster personally.

Although I guess the crook could sign an executive order for the gov to give it to him as an official act.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Only the Slobfather can get gifts

The rest of you peons have to bey the law.