Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy filmed seven-month 'road trip' while in office

Old Union Guy255

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.

Jason Smith122

So his 17 kids just…didn’t go to school?

whitney7.bsky.social77

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.

Jamminjean71

Sean was gone for 7 months and we didn't notice?

littledoodle.bsky.social60

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.

baconspecial.bsky.social44

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.

Zeb Ulon36

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'.)

Democratic Free Press31

Its not like planes are crashing, going bankrupt

Not on the LIST29

And I can’t work from home anymore.

Tracy Eastwood27

A look back on America before he helps destroy the entire thing and moves his family into a bunker. POS

Andi Johnson24

Are we paying for this crap, too???

Vonn21

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!

Stallfortime19

It's all grift. Our airports are a train wreck while he's touring the country on our dime. I hate the moochers.

The Apostrophe17

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

Duckula Flow17

"The Duffy's" Fox News makes people stupid.

Granuailynn13

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

Crazy Cat Lady Abroad13

And a random apostrophe in the family name for no apparent reason. Because Fox.

Ralivan9

But anything that has gone wrong while he was fucking off across the country is Biden's fault.

Linda Marie 🕊️9

Who paid for the gas?

Creedence Clearwater Remodel9

Does DOGE know about this?

forced2bnice2u.bsky.social8

Hmm fire the DEI workforce to allow the ill equipped White workers to party on our dime! F them all! 🤬🤬

Dave Del Greco8

“The Duffy’s” in the chyron— those fools at FoxNews don’t even know the difference between plural & possessive

Tickles La Rue8

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.

dzeiher8

I remember Mayor Pete being excoriated for bringing his husband along on an international visit

enrich128

I can't WAIT to see Sean Duffy's Great American Road Trip fail miserably with the American public. #clueless #ToneDeaf

CUNTY Spaulding7

I don’t like the FREELOADING RICH PEOPLE eating & vacationing on our dime

rob787.bsky.social7

Not like there’s anything going on in the transportation department or anything

Destiny's Problem Child 🏳️‍🌈7

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.

Kitty Kowalski7

Living on the government door while going on vacation. Does that make him a welfare queen?

Kitty Kowalski7

Is he getting a taxpayer funded paycheck for this?

GET OUT OF MY WAY!7

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.

Pragmatic Politic6

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?

happyrumrunner.bsky.social6

is he going to refund his salary?

Feathered Stone6

Good to know he is busy bsky.app/profile/cnn....

Dr Robin5

Why are taxpayers paying him?

drsmutt.bsky.social5

Was he getting paid as a govt employee during this time? How did he ever accrue that much vacation time?

Nothin’ but Blue Skies from now on5

The rest of us who apparently live in this “pornhub world” are really, really, really getting pissed off

Michael in CHI5

And they complain about Secretary Pete not ever being around!

Barbara Castellano5

Who paid for his trip? Why wasn't he working on the numerous problems with our transportation industry?

Eric Reese5

How much vacation time does a Cabinet secretary have?

@The Real Crustocrates5

“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

Yo-Yo Mendez4

Well this tracks since being on Road Rules seems to be his only qualification.

[‘name’, ‘here’]4

Yes and be sure to remember to dress nicely at the airport

💙True Blue 206💙4

Meanwhile we’ve had more plane accidents and incidents that no one has explained

And.And4

The fact That the title of this execrable series is so similar to the title of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s book makes me ill

Mel4

We’re paying these people with our taxes.

Linda G4

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.

Fátima4

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.

Francisco De Gavman3

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.

mariafartaroma.bsky.social3

I guess being on a taxpayer funded vacation is better than him pretending to do his job.

@gretagroots3

The Trump regime thinks they are royalty and hard earned taxpayers' money is theirs for the taking

StefFun3

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!

Hair Furor 🐔🌮3

And all he really wanted to do was visit his in-laws for the weekend but DoT being what it is these days...

Dungargee3

Explains why planes keep falling out of the sky or crashing into one another

Freestatefemale3

Good f-ing grief. No wonder the airlines are in trouble.

Jen Jeffers 🐰3

I don't know why these people have government aspirations when all they really want is to be famous.

35rcl.bsky.social3

This is disgraceful. What a slap in the face for people who go to work everyday.

A. E. Fisher3

That misplaced apostrophe is going to haunt me.

Caliphate Pontificus3

Beats working for a living.

Lettymontana3

Despite the money part..............THIS IS SO EMBARASSING

yewknow.bsky.social3

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…

ICEshootsDogs3

This entire administration is just one long, rage-inducing reality show

Resist Tyranny3

Who the hell paid for the trip? Who gets this much vacation with a new job? So disgusting...

Autumn3

They are all celebrity Aristocracy living off government hand outs.

Just a gal in Aspen3

We PAID him a salary during his 7 month FAMILY VACATION????? I want my tax dollars back from the DEAD BEAT.

RainDropPuddles3

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!

Melayna3

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is doing a bang-up job.

Claire Splan3

And they only visited red states? Because that’s where the REAL America is, right? 🤮

John Ryan3

All at Taxpayers Expense, No Doubt!

Tim Murphy3

I wondered how Duff got that tan.

Its Getting Clear3

What a clueless insensitive jackass.

Deadwood CS3

I sure hope he paid taxes in all the states he was “working” from

Bumblesnatch2

Tone Def - the new family show

Joe Aconite🎃📽️🎙️🐺🌕🐸2

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.

Candy England2

Right after we started paying him To do a real job.

TD Warner2

Our tax dollars paying for this with expensive gas prices 🤬

Cunty Poopster2

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.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈2

They filmed it for reality show didn’t they?

Kris Gates2

Thank goodness they're avoiding the west/best coast where I live.

Zach2

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.

esbee2010.bsky.social2

MFer thinks he's on Road Rules

peanut24.bsky.social2

Well I guess he figured as Transportation Secretary his job was all about "transporting." In this case, just his family.

Karrina H2

All on our dime 🤬

redundantverbosity.bsky.social2

Because after Trump appointment and confirmation by Senate, he could care less if you actually do your job. He has his “win”.

Jean Paul Satire™2

Even MORE of a useless POS than I thought, wow.

Escalante Sam2

Did they stop by Puck’s place?

icecreamrocksss.bsky.social2

Disgusting that this is all one big reality tv show to them and not actual human lives that they’re playing with

C. Allen2

Man. This guy is really tone deaf...

Kai Mast2

It looks like there's no luggage in the car at all.

Mirco Wilhelm2

So he took his kids out of school for half a year for a vacation?

Sheila2

They’re stealing us blind, it’s always all on the taxpayer’s dime.

Feathered Stone2

So not working I see

litzz1110

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.

littledoodle.bsky.social7

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.

HippyChick3

Duffy is just as inept and incompetent as the rest of the “Didn’t Earn It” appointees

wbrind.bsky.social2

Are we still paying him with our tax dollars? 🤬

BD Max 🌵 🏜️ 🌄🌎🌏🌍💙🇺🇦🦋🧢2

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.

Craig Carlisle6

He and his wife are terrible people.

Agora016194

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 .

Bright Bart3

Obama wore a tan suit once.

mruelberg.bsky.social2

Good thing those plane crashes must not have occurred at critical times. And must have breathed a sigh of relief when the TSA workers finally got paid. Maybe the Sec of Agriculture can look into a cooking show to follow up on the something else with a piece of chicken, a broccoli and a tortilla.

ContentSean8

The Transportation Secretary should not have that kind of time on his hands.

be-zen.bsky.social6

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!

Kathy6

He’s a lumberjack and he is not OK.

KatieBea3

Don’t forget his wife was the naive conservative who had trouble accepting the liberal roommates.

resist96.bsky.social3

How much of our taxpayer dollars did he use on this….i imagine he said it was “business”

BeeCard2

Did he see any unemployed air traffic controllers looking for work while he was driving around?

Iceblue28

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.

Cheryl Price5

And he wife was the conservative villain on the Real World. I hope Pedro haunts her.

kslehman.bsky.social3

But then there’s those little details like GAS PRICES!!!!!

JLRoberson3

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.

adayinmylife64.bsky.social11

I’m sure many Americans would love a 7 month extremely well paid vacation. Why do we pay these fools?!!

Michelle Wu for President5

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

Don Moeller🇺🇦5

interesting... That's not my world

Missing the real RHONY5

It’s where most washed up reality stars end up.

💐Alice Anne Fayth💐3

My “I don’t spend so much watching porn online that I shoehorn it into every conversation” shirt…

barely-sane.bsky.social2

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.

aveline72.bsky.social2

Wtf does that mean as an expression? I have never heard anyone say that in my entire life.

msdobalina.bsky.social24

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.

And George Wendt15

@schiff.senate.gov when you voted to confirm Sean Duffy was this what you envisioned him doing

Democratic Free Press13

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

nils2.bsky.social12

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.

Mich2Cali • 🏳️‍🌈12

sean duffy is reality show personality who plays Transportation Secretary on TV.

timeforsanity.bsky.social8

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!

Gizmoz7

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

Meatball Ron: Summer of Ron6

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

nils2.bsky.social6

So the Secretary of Transportation is sponsored by Boeing and United Airlines? That seems quite wrong.

auntieranty.bsky.social6

On our dime. Fucker better pay it back.

Nada Pasa4

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!

six63.bsky.social4

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.

KCL6553213

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.

The Resistance CO2

Most likely all paid for by taxpayers!

Hipster Dipster2

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??

Mike HeXt2

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.

Southpaw T Rex2

Puts all those pressers blaming Biden and Pete into focus now doesn’t it. He wasn’t doing the job😡

Bigfoot192

Apparently that's funny to republikkkans.

Freethinker2

Didn't this shit used to be illegal?

Dweb3

What a bunch of shit.

JC2

And what consequence will there be? None.

tmel1219.bsky.social2

So out of touch with ordinary Americans

Michael D2

Paid for by our tax dollars. 🤬

Patrick Cant6

How come the blatant criminality by this administration is treated like a cute sidebar? These people are stealing our tax dollars and lying about it.

Cynfulfan2

TWENTY THREE Democrats voted to confirm this grifter

Trixie 🌸🇨🇦2

So he started a new job in Jan 2025, and has spent 7 of of those months away on holidays? He’s literally only had the job for 15 months, that means he’s been vacationing for almost half the time he’s been employed. Does he need a reminder that his salary is funded by taxpayers?😐

Greg 🇨🇦🥁🎸2

Nobody hates it because it’s joyful. quality time with your family is well spent. They hate it because you should have been doing your job. 3 people are dead from *runway incursions* alone, nearly decapitated & 4 last week. A self inflicted economic disaster due to oil based transit in general.

AvGeeknologist 2

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.