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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy filmed seven-month 'road trip' while in office
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy filmed a seven-month family 'road trip' reality series while serving in office. Ethics and spending watchdogs criticized the trip, noting Duffy continued to collect his federal salary during the period and raising questions about potential use of taxpayer resources for the production. Hours after the show's public revelation, a person was killed at Denver International Airport after trespassing onto a runway and being sucked into a Frontier Airlines jet engine. Because Duffy oversees aviation safety and federal transportation budgets, the extended absence and possible taxpayer-funded production create apparent conflicts and oversight concerns.
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
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?
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.
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.
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 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'.)
Its not like planes are crashing, going bankrupt
And I can’t work from home anymore.
A look back on America before he helps destroy the entire thing and moves his family into a bunker. POS
Are we paying for this crap, too???
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!
It's all grift. Our airports are a train wreck while he's touring the country on our dime. I hate the moochers.
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
"The Duffy's" Fox News makes people stupid.
Imagine the GOP hissy fit if Buttigieg & his family did that - esp w/ all the issues w/ oh I dunno MID-AIR COLLISIONS AT AIRPORTS (just top of mind to start)... MAGATS would've stormed his office w/ pitchforks, drawn/quartered him & burned down his family home w/ the fam inside, not showcase on Fox
And a random apostrophe in the family name for no apparent reason. Because Fox.
But anything that has gone wrong while he was fucking off across the country is Biden's fault.
Who paid for the gas?
Does DOGE know about this?
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
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.
I remember Mayor Pete being excoriated for bringing his husband along on an international visit
I can't WAIT to see Sean Duffy's Great American Road Trip fail miserably with the American public. #clueless #ToneDeaf
I don’t like the FREELOADING RICH PEOPLE eating & vacationing on our dime
Not like there’s anything going on in the transportation department or anything
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.
Living on the government door while going on vacation. Does that make him a welfare queen?
Is he getting a taxpayer funded paycheck for this?
And we paid his salary while he did a TV show for seven months. They just throw our money around like a bunch of drug addicts.
so many questions.. Does this motherfucker not have a job to do? How much of that trip was paid by taxpayer money? Is this why he still doesn't seem to know that Delta increasingly appears to be in a death spiral?
is he going to refund his salary?
Good to know he is busy bsky.app/profile/cnn....
Why are taxpayers paying him?
Was he getting paid as a govt employee during this time? How did he ever accrue that much vacation time?
The rest of us who apparently live in this “pornhub world” are really, really, really getting pissed off
And they complain about Secretary Pete not ever being around!
Who paid for his trip? Why wasn't he working on the numerous problems with our transportation industry?
How much vacation time does a Cabinet secretary have?
“Sean Duffy’s ‘Road Trip’ is brought to you by the American people’s taxes. Don’t like it? Well then fuck you anyway.” - FOX promo
Well this tracks since being on Road Rules seems to be his only qualification.
Yes and be sure to remember to dress nicely at the airport
Meanwhile we’ve had more plane accidents and incidents that no one has explained
The fact That the title of this execrable series is so similar to the title of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s book makes me ill
We’re paying these people with our taxes.
I guess that explains why planes are crashing into people, crashing into each other, crashing into light poles… good thing he doesn’t have an important job.
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.
All his secretaries, like him, are mere brands, figure heads to toss bread and make circus. All distractions fit into tiktoks while big big money make real their 'Great Again' -by turning back the clock on a century of civil rights gains.
I guess being on a taxpayer funded vacation is better than him pretending to do his job.
The Trump regime thinks they are royalty and hard earned taxpayers' money is theirs for the taking
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 all he really wanted to do was visit his in-laws for the weekend but DoT being what it is these days...
Explains why planes keep falling out of the sky or crashing into one another
Good f-ing grief. No wonder the airlines are in trouble.
I don't know why these people have government aspirations when all they really want is to be famous.
This is disgraceful. What a slap in the face for people who go to work everyday.
That misplaced apostrophe is going to haunt me.
Despite the money part..............THIS IS SO EMBARASSING
We’re all over here trying to figure out how to afford fuel to get to work…. Trying to figure out how to afford healthcare…Trying to figure out how to afford groceries…. Trying to figure out how to afford a roof over our heads… Trying to figure out how to survive…
Who the hell paid for the trip? Who gets this much vacation with a new job? So disgusting...
They are all celebrity Aristocracy living off government hand outs.
We PAID him a salary during his 7 month FAMILY VACATION????? I want my tax dollars back from the DEAD BEAT.
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!
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is doing a bang-up job.
And they only visited red states? Because that’s where the REAL America is, right? 🤮
All at Taxpayers Expense, No Doubt!
I wondered how Duff got that tan.
I sure hope he paid taxes in all the states he was “working” from
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He's vblogging his fucking vacation. To show that america is great when you're rich. Enjoy these years, kids. You'll get older and understand what a monster he is.
Right after we started paying him To do a real job.
Our tax dollars paying for this with expensive gas prices 🤬
It would be a shame if they found out life on the road is not as friendly as they believed it to be and cut their trip short. You don’t have to bake the cake if you don’t want to. Just saying.
They filmed it for reality show didn’t they?
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.
MFer thinks he's on Road Rules
Well I guess he figured as Transportation Secretary his job was all about "transporting." In this case, just his family.
All on our dime 🤬
This entire administration is just one long, rage-inducing reality show
Because after Trump appointment and confirmation by Senate, he could care less if you actually do your job. He has his “win”.
Even MORE of a useless POS than I thought, wow.
Did they stop by Puck’s place?
Disgusting that this is all one big reality tv show to them and not actual human lives that they’re playing with
Man. This guy is really tone deaf...
It looks like there's no luggage in the car at all.
So he took his kids out of school for half a year for a vacation?
They’re stealing us blind, it’s always all on the taxpayer’s dime.
So not working I see
So how do the rest of us get a government funded vacation?
MAGA is trying to compare Sean Duffy taking a road trip with his family filming a reality show for 7 months to Pete Buttigieg taking paternity leave for two months to care for premature twin babies. Dumbest cult ever.
So the Real World asshole gets paid to go on vacation with his family, meanwhile I had to go back to work 6 weeks after a c section because our country fucking lacks proper maternity leave for women. Fuck him AND his family 🖕🖕
It's ALWAYS okay when Republicans do it. Ari Melber was talking about how Trump is spending what little time he isn't golfing working on his vanity projects like picking the right color blue for the reflecting pool. I remember RWers going apeshit over Obama doing a March Madness bracket.
Actually, Pete's baby boy was in critical condition & he stayed by his side in the hospital icu. And he had a it set up so that he could still work. It wasn't to go on a trip of a lifetime,joy riding thru America on the tax payers dime while gas is thru the roof & planes are crashing.
Are we still paying him with our tax dollars? 🤬
Republicans, the party of “We don’t know why we are republicans but we do NOT approve of what anyone does in life.” “And we are all together!” Democrats, we approve of everyone, everywhere, all the time.” “Hold on, I disagree. Not all the time.” “Yes, completely all the time.” I’m in group 2.
Duffy is just as inept and incompetent as the rest of the “Didn’t Earn It” appointees
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.
And his wife was on the San Francisco cast as the "conservative Catholic" who was horny as fuck for the nasty-ass Puck, who would blow snot onto the street while riding his bicycle. She's been a hypocrite since her early 20s AT LEAST!
He’s a lumberjack and he is not OK.
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”
Did he see any unemployed air traffic controllers looking for work while he was driving around?
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.
I see a lot of people are commenting on how unqualified Sean Duffy and other cabinet members are. It’s useful to recall what Steve Bannon said in 2017. They can’t build a new authoritarian order until they destroy the old one.
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!!!!!
Because each and every member of this cabinet is there INSTEAD OF someone who actually do the job. Because someone who knew the job, was doing the job, and cared about the job might object to what Trump decrees.
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?!!
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
interesting... That's not my world
It’s where most washed up reality stars end up.
My “I don’t spend so much watching porn online that I shoehorn it into every conversation” shirt…
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.
“While the working class is standing at the pump doing financial triage, they are eating cake while building a billion-dollar ballroom and painting buildings that do not require painting and throwing seven-month television-ready family caravans on the public tab.” open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
No one in this admin actually does any work other than social media trolling & podcasts. FFS.
He and his wife are terrible people.
Obama wore a tan suit once.
They wouldn't let Sec Buttegieg off to be with his child in the ER though. I wish we had someone who knew how to call this out .
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.
@schiff.senate.gov when you voted to confirm Sean Duffy was this what you envisioned him doing
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
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.
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!
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
I had to refuse delivery of an Edible Arrangement that a towing company sent to my 911 dispatchers for Christmas once because it was valued too high for an acceptable “gift” to public employees
So the Secretary of Transportation is sponsored by Boeing and United Airlines? That seems quite wrong.
On our dime. Fucker better pay it back.
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!
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.
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.
Most likely all paid for by taxpayers!
I've been hearing these annoying public service announcements from Sean Duffy on the radio where he says he reminds his kids to buckle up on road trips. Are they PSA's or promos for his show??
So tired of all these goddamn corrupt GRIFTERS. ALL of them are GRIFTERS. Impeach, remove, Article 2 section 4 them ALL. Make an example of them.
Puts all those pressers blaming Biden and Pete into focus now doesn’t it. He wasn’t doing the job😡
Apparently that's funny to republikkkans.
Didn't this shit used to be illegal?
That sound you hear is air traffic controllers (and a host of other FAA inspectors and staffers) screaming into the abyss about how overworked they are as Sean Duffy wanders America for a reality tv show.
I've got an Op-Ed on FAA staffing issues that I've been submitting to various national publications - none of them picked it up. I'll post it to my newsletter next week. That Duffy feels comfortable going on a family vacation while so many of them are overworked is appalling.
Wholesome family stuff, while controllers haven't seen their kids awake for a week, cool! If only there was some way for a nation to extract money from billionaires, to pay for investments, but unfortunately, there's no such thing.