More Dispatches from the Dumbest Timeline
Reality show edition.
NPR reports: Transportation Secretary Duffy filmed a reality show, funded by firms he regulates.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has returned to his reality television roots, filming a cross-country road trip with his family that will be released as an unscripted series ahead of America’s 250th birthday in July.
“The Great American Road Trip” follows Duffy, his wife and nine children on what he calls “a civic experience” — and encourages other families to follow suit.
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The video shows the family snowmobiling out West, visiting Philadelphia’s historic landmarks, thanking veterans at a diner and enjoying waterslides, interspersed with some backseat teasing and hints of a dramatic emergency-room visit. It also features cameos by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, country musicians Kid Rock and John Rich, a Benjamin Franklin reenactor and President Trump, who describes their exploits as “a little trip all over.”
Again with Kid Rock!
But more importantly:
Those involved say production costs were covered by a nonprofit by the same name, The Great American Road Trip Inc. Its public list of sponsors is stacked with travel-related companies — like Toyota, Boeing and United Airlines — with ties to the Department of Transportation, raising more questions.
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Duffy has said filming happened in one- to two-day windows like “weekends and the kids’ spring break” over a seven-month period. Both the Great American Road Trip Inc. and the Department of Transportation declined to confirm when exactly that window was.
Sizemore, the Department of Transportation spokesperson, told NPR over email that “in these brief stops, the Secretary also often conducted additional visits like touring air traffic control towers and assessing port infrastructure.”
That doesn’t sound conflict-of-interest-y at all, now does it?
Plus, how does this relate to his job? Since when is DOT the tourist bureau?
Elect a reality show star, get reailty show government, I guess.
As I’ve said before, Trump didn’t select a cabinet, he cast a TV show, and the ‘stars’ turned secretaries have reverted to what they do best: performing. ‘Judge’ Jeanine, Hegseth and Duffy ooze incompetence every time they open their mouth.
A quick reminder that Republicans absolutely lost their sh!t when the previous Transportation Secretary took time away from the office to be in the pediatric ICU when one of his twins stopped breathing.
It is absolutely unacceptable that this alleged government employee/public servant took time away from his JOB for this reality show nonsense.