When planes were crashing and trains were derailing, Trump’s transportation secretary was busy doing something else.
Sean Duffy and his family, it was revealed much later, were filming a reality show for YouTube.
It made sense. Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy (now a Fox News contributor) met on MTV’s “The Real World.” They are totally manufactured people who have lived like they were on “The Truman Show” for 30 years.
But now “The Great American Road Trip” has debuted on YouTube. There are six episodes, about 25 minutes apiece.
No one is watching them.
So far, “The Great American Road Trip” has amassed a total of 23,000 views over the six episodes.
Episode 2 got a little jolt when I — and a few others subsequently — revealed that Duffy didn’t want his bright, articulate daughter to go to Harvard because it would “corrupt and pervert” her. it was a cringe episode that showed the Duffy’s to be backward, small minded people afraid to let their child discover the, uh, actual real world.
But even that publicity didn’t help. I don’t think anyone was surprised to learn that these two morons from a reality show were of no value whatsoever.
The biggest revelation was that they have nine children — nine! — and that soon each one will start rebelling. That’s the series I’d like to see, when the first one says their gay, trans, or brings home a non white companion.
Luckily the government did not pay for this waste of time. Forbes estimates that corporate sponsors kicked in around $5 million. The same sponsors — like Boeing, Toyota, Shell, Google, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, United Airlines, Lyft and CRH (a provider of building materials for highways and other critical infrastructure) are said to have spent $100 million lobbying Congress last year.
So basically, donations were a shakedown, like everything else in the Trump administration. It’s a protection racket.
It’s all money flushed down the toilet. And who knows what will happen to the daughter who wanted to go to Harvard? The parents want a Catholic school, like Boston College, and will probably get their way.
