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Former Fox contributor and Transportation Secretary says he took a 7-month family road trip to film a reality show.


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Sean Duffy says he spent seven months filming a family reality show while Transportation Secretary
Former Fox contributor and Transportation Secretary says he took a 7-month family road trip to film a reality show.
oh my god -- Sean Duffy on Fox & Friends this morning announced that he spent parts of *7 MONTHS* (more than half a year!) on a roadtrip with his family to celebrate America's 250th anniversary
They're all living lives of luxury while looting us of our tax dollars and stripping our rights and stealing all of our natural resources to sell off for parts to their friends
Must be nice. I work in transportation and the last time I had a day off, I ended up working anyway.
Chris Hayes (not sure who the guest was) talked last night about how those in the highest regime positions have a lot of time to fuck off (my terms, not his) and not do much at all in the way of boring governance or agency guidance. This was in the K. Patel context, but I thought about Duffy.
So his 17 kids just…didn’t go to school?
And who paid for this trip, pray tell?
Road trips “fit any budget.” Who paid for your gas, Sean?
Can we get his salary back? He owes us seven months worth of salary. Plus, any funds he used on his trip that were public funds.
Some people spend 25% their weeks playing golf from thier own golf country club... Life is good at the 1%!... and in the Trump cabinet.
I wonder how my boss would feel if I took a 7-month vacation, and got paid for it. CC: @karoli.bsky.social 😀
7 months isn't a road trip, that's a sabbatical
All Republicans in this administration are assholes. Plain and simple I don't dress up a pig just cuz I'm taking him to the county fair.
Shoutout to those kids’ future therapists
Its not like planes are crashing, going bankrupt
So he chose not to fly
Sean was gone for 7 months and we didn't notice?
Average Americans can't afford gas to drive their own cars to work and this grifter is driving a gas guzzler all across the country. He's not paying out of pocket for gas for this trip. We are. This administration is so out of touch. They're all having a good time while we struggle.
If I did that, I'd be fired.
my family did this in 30 days back in the 80's. NY to Seattle, down to san diego, over to las vegas , then back up rt 66 to chicago. 7 months is ridiculous
A look back on America before he helps destroy the entire thing and moves his family into a bunker. POS
On our dime. Per diem, all expenses paid for. These jerks are disgusting. While our air traffic controllers are so short-handed that some are having nervous breakdowns due to extreme stress with no vacations or time off. This is making America great again for this administration, not the citizens!
"The Duffy's" Fox News makes people stupid.
It's all grift. Our airports are a train wreck while he's touring the country on our dime. I hate the moochers.
Living on the government door while going on vacation. Does that make him a welfare queen?
What a great idea, especially when so many families would have trouble affording the gas to drive across America. 🤦🏻♀️
i bet these very same Fox News personalities would've had a very normal reaction to Buttigieg doing the exact same thing. (he wouldn't of course since he knew he had an actual job to do and isn't a reality TV 'star'.)
Was he getting paid as a govt employee during this time? How did he ever accrue that much vacation time?
All the states they visited are... *SURPRISE* conservative states. And I thought we lived in a society that decided you couldn't work for outside the office because it wasn't productive. I guess if you're a Secretary with the fed gov't or a weekend host at Fox and Friends, that rule isn't for you.
Good thing he wasn't supposed to be doing anything else important.
And I bet taxpayers paid for the whole family to vacation. Bastards.
Taxpayer's dollars spent on the Duffy's fanciful expedition and self promotion. 😠
He must make lots of "well earned" $$$$ !! I can't afford gas for my car this week at all and I don't work my part time job (at age 79) until next week!! I hope there are no emergencies !! Anyone KNOW WHERE all these 250th Anniversary Celebrations ARE ??? I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT them !!
To be honest, as a European, I’m jealous that you get seven months of vacation per year and it obviously doesn’t matter to you whether your car runs on gas or even champagne — you can just afford it!
And a random apostrophe in the family name for no apparent reason. Because Fox.
That misplaced apostrophe is going to haunt me.
is he going to refund his salary?
The rest of us who apparently live in this “pornhub world” are really, really, really getting pissed off
Not like there’s anything going on in the transportation department or anything
And they complain about Secretary Pete not ever being around!
My parents took us on 1-week long visits to timeshares in mostly obscure locations up and down the east coast for a few years. My step-brother and I enjoyed them but would never have thought to imagine a *7 MONTH* vacation. Those reality TV residuals must still be coming in. Right? RIGHT, SEAN?
Somebody tell arrogant, smug Duffy that no one can afford the gas for a road trip.
We the people paid for this crap! He and his wife should either pay it back or be thrown in jail for defrauding us.
The Trump regime thinks they are royalty and hard earned taxpayers' money is theirs for the taking
Yes and be sure to remember to dress nicely at the airport
And all he really wanted to do was visit his in-laws for the weekend but DoT being what it is these days...
Our tax dollars paying for this with expensive gas prices 🤬
The fact That the title of this execrable series is so similar to the title of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s book makes me ill
I don't know why these people have government aspirations when all they really want is to be famous.
We’re paying these people with our taxes.
Beats working for a living.
Doesn't this guy have a job paid for by us? Get your ass back to it, not shooting promo vacay videos with your milquetoast family.
And I can’t work from home anymore.
Hmm fire the DEI workforce to allow the ill equipped White workers to party on our dime! F them all! 🤬🤬
“The Duffy’s” in the chyron— those fools at FoxNews don’t even know the difference between plural & possessive
Who the hell paid for the trip? Who gets this much vacation with a new job? So disgusting...
100% he made a handful of "official" stops to claim that .74c /mile - just dirty math here, he traveled 5,200 miles which gives him $3,848 in tax free reimbursement, plus whatever the GSA per diem is for example: Miami Dade County is $145 lodging + $92 meals / per night. 7 months of this!
Did they stop by Puck’s place?
And they only visited red states? Because that’s where the REAL America is, right? 🤮
Absolutely nobody in the cabinet has taken a minute to read their job description, they do whatever they think the job is. The secretary of transportation thinks he should transport his family through the US.
Are we paying for this crap, too???
These are the most sick deranged people to walk planet earth and we have to do all we can to remove them from power et every fucking level of government and then drive them into prisons or out of the country once we take our democracy back from these ABUSERS AND PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS.
Is he getting a taxpayer funded paycheck for this?
All at Taxpayers Expense, No Doubt!
Does DOGE know about this?
Yeah America, get out there and take a road trip!! With gas inching every so closer to $5 gallon! Go out there and see the sights in the car many people cannot afford!! Fuck all the way off #Republicans, and fuck you too Fox
The unnecessary apostrophe in the chyron is triggering this old copy editor.
This is all this administration knows how to do. TV appearances, social media posts. When you don’t know how to do the job you are in, you revert back to the last job you thought you were good at, and try yo incorporate it into your new role. They are all like this. Every. Single. One. FAIL
So wrong on so many levels. Can we get a refund on his salary for most of that?
Folks that can’t afford gas paid for this douche bags vacation and not a peep from any democrat about locking these fuckers up.
Of course! He only has a part time job. He can always go on line and check dear leader’s blathering.
Wow, totally not propaganda feel.
Doesn’t he have a job? One that we pay his salary for. One that usually requires more than 40 hours a week.
And this was also when he was temporary NASA administrator as well.
Excuse me? We need this vacation paid back in full
How much did this cost us?
Anything for the publicity. These fuckers are all going to jail come November or I’m leaving. It really has become that simple.
All while planes and trains are crashing. Another fucking grifter on our tax dollars.
Planes crashing on the runways, into each other, engines falling off but thank GOD the Cable-TV guy has his priorities straight! Right on #FoxAndFriends! This is gonna PISS that stuffed-shirt #SecDrunk and his $1000 hair-cut right tf OFF!
Who is getting paid for this series on the taxpayer's dime?
I always think whenever someone posts about Sean Duffy, it should say, “Sean Duffy, the guy who danced naked in a hotel window”. It is so important to understand how he qualified for a job in the trump administration.
For those of you too young to remember, early seasons of The Real World always had a rural white person with no exposure to diverse cultures and that was Sean Duffy the lumberjack from northern Wisconsin. That is his only qualification
He was also a drunken frat boy who came from a wealthy family. Daddy was a lawyer. Not salt of the earth. Typical Republican douche bags. And his and his wife's religion and children are just props they exploit for their careers.
The Transportation Secretary should not have that kind of time on his hands.
Don’t forget his wife was the naive conservative who had trouble accepting the liberal roommates.
How much of our taxpayer dollars did he use on this….i imagine he said it was “business”
He’s a lumberjack and he is not OK.
Did he see any unemployed air traffic controllers looking for work while he was driving around?
I believe Sean Duffy's wife that Sean Duffy lives in a PornHub world.
I always knew PornHub was wholesome good family stuff.
I’m sure many Americans would love a 7 month extremely well paid vacation. Why do we pay these fools?!!
interesting... That's not my world
My “I don’t spend so much watching porn online that I shoehorn it into every conversation” shirt…
People are asking a lot of questions about my “this road trip with my family is NOT porn, it is good clean family fun” shirt that are answered by the shirt
It’s where most washed up reality stars end up.
These neo-Nazis are just soooo wholesome. What about the families whose lives you ruin by abducting them without due process and shipping them to brutal prisons? Assholes.
Wtf does that mean as an expression? I have never heard anyone say that in my entire life.
Sean Duffy’s main qualification for the job is that he was once featured in MTV’s Road Rules, so I guess he’s playing to his strengths.
So wait. He's been on vacation with his family for the past 7 months? Are his kids home schooled? Apparently his job is able to be done anywhere. This is why there are so many incidents with airplanes, control towers, etc..No leadership. The entire admin is just in it for the grift on taxpayer dime.
And he wife was the conservative villain on the Real World. I hope Pedro haunts her.
But then there’s those little details like GAS PRICES!!!!!
Former Fox News contributor Sean Duffy revealed that he spent seven months making a reality show while serving the country as Secretary of Transportation.
Must be nice to "work" for this regime. All they do is vacation.
Goooooodddddaaammmmmmmmmn I'm not a historian, but these people seem like the most "in your face" grifters in the history of democracy. If anyone was worse, I'm not sure I want to know about it.
These people dont work. As planes are crashing, tSA not getting paid. Hes filming propoganda for 7 months 7bmo th road trip is expensive. Paid by taxpayers
@schiff.senate.gov when you voted to confirm Sean Duffy was this what you envisioned him doing
sean duffy is reality show personality who plays Transportation Secretary on TV.
The Great American road trip paid for by the U.S. taxpayers? Patel, Noem, and many of Trump’s cabinet make good use of free travel apparently!
Corruption at its best.Duffy was and is always a Reality Show contestant,his service in Congress & his current position as Sec of Transportation are all part of his plan to fleece Americans while blaming the previous admin for all the GOP mistakes and problems. Infrastructure Bill ws undr Biden.
Is 7 months paid vacation for Cabinet secretaries something out of Project 2025? It does make sense that appointing unqualified people and then giving them 7 months of vacation would contribute to the goal of dismantling the federal government and making people’s lives worse.
So he gets paid by most of the corporations he's supposedly overlooking to take a seven month road trip. While he's being paid by the American people to oversee these same corporations. Gee, where could a conflict of interest be there? That'd be just like someone giving the prez a jet or something
Taxpayer funded family trip baby! Look at everything the GOP can get away with knowing absolutely NOTHING will ever happen to them. Thanks for voting for this shit America!
I knew this guy was a weaselly scumbag since I first saw him back on The Real World. It's sad that society has allowed this PoS to ascend as far as he has, but it's not shocking since PoS people tend to do well in the society we've crafted.
So the Secretary of Transportation is sponsored by Boeing and United Airlines? That seems quite wrong.
On our dime. Fucker better pay it back.