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Duffy embarked on the all-expenses-paid Great American Road Trip, designed as a “guide to the historic landmarks, open roads, and small towns that tell 250 years of this country’s story.” But as the financing has come into view, the trip looks less like civic uplift than a rolling ethics problem.

forbes.comHere’s How Much Multimillionaire Transport Secretary Sean Duffy Got Paid While Taking A Corporate-Sponsored Family Road TripBoeing, Toyota and Shell sent Duffy and ten family members on multiple all-expenses-paid vacations while he continued to draw a taxpayer-funded salary.

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yet another disgusting grift on hard-working, tax-paying Americans we deserve far, far better take a vacay on your own dime, schmuck…but how about doing the work that you were picked to do—despite being completely unqualified for it—first

He was the one that suggested we should all take a road trip this year for vacation. Do we send our bills to him?? I need his address.

Duffy embarked on the all-expenses-paid Great American Road Trip, designed as a “guide to the historic landmarks, open roads, and small towns that tell 250 years of this country’s story. === The 250 year story might end up missing a few years.

Duffy spent 7 months making this documentary. 7 months that he was Secretary of Transportation. During those months was when the government was shutdown and TSA agents not being paid. But Duffy was paid his salary while taking a road trip.

Fucking grifters using tax payers money to take long vacations with family. The whole fucking administration is corrupt t the bone

okay, so supposedly Duffy's family vacation isn't being paid with American's taxes. probably BS! but should that be the only concern, who's paying for it. What about the fact most only get 2wks of vacation. This guy is doing months, making a documentary per-se. Why is a doc being made of his vaca?

There is so much nothing in between all the small towns that his administration is starving and poisoning and gutting and they are gonna be mad and since they don't have jobs and JD Vance is trying to take their land, they're gonna be fucking pissed. Those are the people with all the guns.

I have news for you, I am a minority in my neighborhood and this hood is better armed than any country town I grew up in. I laughed at my old racist friends who think a revolution would be riding in a pickup up to the city to shoot some liberals. "Boys, you would not make it one block in my hood".

Carnaval barkers and shills running the country. It's no wonder planes are crashing, airline carriers are bankrupt, airport wait times are interminable. And in the midst of the chaos, Duffy holds prayer breakfasts then scurries over to Fox to blame Biden. Pathetic.

@flashgman.bsky.social the fact that multiple corporations covered everything for ten family members while the government paycheck never paused once is what i keep coming back to 😑 i skipped a trip this year bc of what things cost and watched this land on the exact same day

Where’s DOG-E boys to check on federal employees in 2026? How many workers can call into. their $265,000 a year job half heartedly by saying they are working from home, while getting a lucrative influencer -sponsored contract worth million for a reality show?

You would think these incompetent buffoons would want to lay low, not call attention to themselves since they are not qualified for the position they hold, but no not MAGA they are bold, loud in bragging about their blatant corruption, they follow the con man in chief

Taxpayer funded vacay with his family. His “road trip” as Transportation Secretary should have been visiting airports & ATC installations that have problems, then go to Congress with a detailed plan to fund the corrections to the air transportation system. Then do railways

So he was paid by corporations to drive around and do pull ups at airports? Listen Dem establishment If you don’t run on GOP Corruption And you should all have marching orders to insert these two words in every interview/ conversation Then u are idiots

Note not only that there's a hard pattern in which almost no Cabinet or agency head Trump appoints has any background in the sphere that the Dept/agency is charged with handling, but also that some are absentee figureheads who use Dept/agency funds to travel constantly for fun and, re Duffy, INCOME.

On June 6, 2025, the then Sec'y of the Navy gave a speech commemorating the anniversary -- NOT of the June 6, 1944 Allies' invasion of Normandy -- but of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I recall wondering at the time if he planned to be in Normandy on Dec. 7.

When the Sec'y of the Navy doesn't know June 6 wasn't that 'date that will live in infamy', when all of those American *naval* vessels were sunk and war was declared. Totally mind boggling. Would have made a great SNL skit though.

This guy is Secretary of Transportation - which does include such things as the FAA and air traffic control operations, including staffing the control towers at, y'know, air ports now that Musk's no longer overseeing that. He did in early '25 force a halt to Musk's 2nd waive of ATC/trainee layoffs.

MAGA and trump do not care ... taxpayer funded things like this are your problem not theirs... zero consequences .. little or no negative media coverage ..... the #GreatAmericanRoadTrip... all expenses tax payer paid holiday

That's a great idea!!! With the price of gas, we could visit places.... if we were paid a living wage. It seems that all Trump's Administration are taking vacations on the taxpayers money!!

The BIGGER headline should be about the hypocritical Republicans not caring that Duffy didn't actually perform his job for all those months while getting paid for it while they certainly were quite upset when Buttigieg took a little time off for paternity leave during his tenure.

shell-sponsored family vacation on our dime. and he's still getting paid. the corruption is barely even hiding anymore... like they care about infrastructure. how many other cabinet members are cashing in like this?

This is called bribery and further part of those companies paying the bribes are foreign companies who are not even allowed to contribute to political campaigns. call it what it is

I don’t think Sean’s gonna get the receptions he thinks he is…I think he might actually draw some crowds of people know where he’s headed… be a shame if lotsa people followed him to restaurants and hotels and never gave him a moment of thought race…😏

Showing US landmarks is a great idea. An even better one? For what it cost him and his family and film crew, etc. could have / should have selected several low-income families or school classes and let them document the road trip. Dipshits!

And be real. It's not like the heads of these benefactor companies absorb this out of civic good. Consumers pay. Ever wonder why insurance companies and credit card companies sponsor so many elite events? When you get your statements and fees, it's obvious.

I say this often. Imagine how much less our premiums would be and how better our services would be if we didn't have to pay for 24-7 pharmacopeia advertising, sports arena naming, phalanx shaped rockets, yachts, mistresses ...

Wow. I can only hope to see all those places one day. But alas work and budgets to deal with. Grift for his kids to have the vacation of a life time.

I saw a preview clip of their road trip. One destination was Chicago. The country needs Duffy to let America know about the #3 city in the country - and one of the top tourist destinations. What's next....letting people know about Disney? Vegas? Niagara Falls? NYC?