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BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy neglects duties as he spends seven months filming a fluffy family “road trip” reality show while sky high gas prices force ordinary Americans to stay home!
Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy (who somehow balances this with a full-time Fox News gig and NINE children) turned their “Great American Road Trip” into a polished production complete with corporate mega-sponsors like Boeing, Shell, and Toyota – the very industries his department is supposed to keep honest in their business practices.
This is Kristi Noem-level cosplay, but with better production value. While regular Americans struggle with gas above four dollars a gallon nationwide and are cutting back on travel, Duffy’s family jets around the country filming contrived, feel-good content funded by the same companies that benefit from his decisions.
The Department of Transportation claims some stops were piggybacked onto “official duties,” but the whole thing reeks of using a Cabinet position for personal brand-building and family fame.
Ethics watchdogs are raising red flags about conflicts of interest and the appearance that Duffy is more focused on his next TV appearance than on actually doing the job.
Welcome to Cabinet-level dining at the Trump trough. He really doesn’t care what they do as long as they never speak ill of him. In Duffy’s case, he isn’t running the Department of Transportation as much as a family influencer brand with taxpayer-adjacent perks and corporate sponsors.
The arrogance and tone-deafness are off the charts. Duffy knows that if the boss doesn’t care, neither does he. Duffy never had worked only as a lawyer with no management experience before curiously Trump plucked him from Congress to the post in reward for his rhetorical support.
If you’re disgusted as we are by Trump Cabinet members treating their positions like opportunities for personal fame and family branding while Americans struggle with higher prices, please like and share this post.