# Do his job or make a YouTube series-can you guess which The Secretary of Transportation decided to do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 11, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976 "2026-05-11T00:36:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/1 "2026-05-11T00:36:04Z")
You don’t a brain filled with Pop Rocks to guess which one Sean Duffy decided to go with: [Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy defends new reality show amid backlash](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sean-duffy-dot-fire-back-critics-new-reality-show-rcna344428) “The Great American Road Trip,” a five-part reality series set to air on YouTube in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary, follows Duffy as he travels across the country with his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children. The motto is: To love America is to see America,” Duffy says in the show’s [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPNmTYUi9DY). “It’s more than a road trip. It’s a civic experience. It’s one of the most powerful ways to understand the vast, beautiful, complicated place we call home.” And ““We’re encouraging everyone to go take a road trip to celebrate America’s 250th birthday,” Duffy says in the trailer, which also features the family meeting with President Donald Trump.” Have you _seen_ the rising price of gas lately?? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/2 "2026-05-11T03:59:59Z")
That should be “Sean Doofus.” 🤦🏽‍♀️ Heather Cox Richardson included that story in her compendium of news at the end of the day on Friday. And it wasn’t even the most outrageous bit of news that happened on Friday. These people keep outdoing, or is it **UN** doing, themselves. > The biggest of those stories was not that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took his family on a seven-month road trip to film a television series called _The Great American Road Trip_ while he was supposed to be doing his job as secretary of transportation, or that he told _Fox & Friends_ this morning that “it fits any budget to do a road trip” on a day when the national average for a gallon of gas was $4.54. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/3 "2026-05-11T05:03:29Z")
> “it fits any budget to do a road trip” on a day when the national average for a gallon of gas was $4.54. Maybe he’s driving a Tesla. Wait, better still, a Cybertruck, since they have nine kids (and counting), in keeping with JD Vance’s dictum for white procreation and admonishment of “childless cat ladies”. So, hubby at the wheel of the Cybertruck, as befits a manly man, with the loyal wife at his side, three kids in the back seat, and six in the truck bed. Perhaps in a burst of Trumpian genius, Sean “Doofus” Duffy will mount a small wind turbine (“windmill” to Trumpsters) on the roof of the Cybertruck which will charge it as they drive, thus precluding the need to ever stop at any charging stations. Trump may award him the Nobel Peace Prize (I understand that he has one) for finally inventing perpetual motion. None of this would surprise me. Seriously, I think my dog has more intelligence than any of these troglodytes. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/4 "2026-05-11T05:42:58Z")
To be fair, nobody in this administration seems to actually _have_ any job duties aside from stroking Trump’s ego. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/5 "2026-05-11T06:32:03Z")
I think this is great news, rather like when Trump goes golfing. I encourage Trump, and all members of his administration, to spend as much time not running the country as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/6 "2026-05-11T09:06:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > he told _Fox & Friends_ this morning that “it fits any budget to do a road trip” on a day when the national average for a gallon of gas was $4.54. Well for some, an affordable road trip is a hundred miles or a thousand miles while for others it’s only five miles or ten miles. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/7 "2026-05-11T11:14:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > So, hubby at the wheel of the Cybertruck, as befits a manly man, with the loyal wife at his side, three kids in the back seat, and six in the truck bed. > > Perhaps in a burst of Trumpian genius, Sean “Doofus” Duffy will mount a small wind turbine (“windmill” to Trumpsters) on the roof of the Cybertruck… On the roof of the vehicle? But then where will they put the crate that holds the family dog? Because unlike Ted Cruz, who left the dog at home when the family flew to Mexico, the Doofus kids insisted that Daddy bring Fido along. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/8 "2026-05-11T13:15:00Z")
He could have justified the trip a little bit by saying he took the opportunity to visit airports along the way to inspect their exercise facilities. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/9 "2026-05-15T04:23:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You don’t a brain filled with Pop Rocks to guess which one Sean Duffy decided to go with: [Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy defends new reality show amid backlash](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sean-duffy-dot-fire-back-critics-new-reality-show-rcna344428) > “The Great American Road Trip,” a five-part reality series set to air on YouTube in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary, follows Duffy as he travels across the country with his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their **nine children.** I don’t intend to watch a second of this horseshit, but I do wonder, how the hell are they transporting all those kids, not to mention all their bags? Are they taking their road trip in a school bus? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/10 "2026-05-15T09:25:01Z")
Not to mention aides and security. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/11 "2026-05-15T11:11:21Z")
Not to mention the camera crew. It must look like the circus done come to town. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-his-job-or-make-a-youtube-series-can-you-guess-which-the-secretary-of-transportation-decided-to-do/1029976/12 "2026-05-15T12:54:13Z")
A side note: 9 kids? That poor woman.