“The tone deafness. The secretary of transportation was on a seven-month road trip with his nine children for a TV show,” she said during CNN’s “Newsnight.”<\/p>\n
Duffy announced that he and his family filmed a show called “The Great American Road Trip,” to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. The trip has received pushback from the left,<\/a> including from former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, amid high gas prices.<\/p>\n “You know that he was not on a road trip for seven months. You know that that is factually inaccurate. Come on,” Jason Rantz, a conservative radio host, said.<\/p>\n DUFFYS FIRE BACK AFTER PETE BUTTIGIEG, HUSBAND ATTACK NEW ROAD TRIP TV SERIES: ‘RADICAL, MISERABLE LEFT’<\/a><\/p>\n Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy arrives at BlackRock\u2019s 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 2026. (Daniel Heuer\/Bloomberg)<\/p>\n Navarro countered, “He has been on a road trip during those seven months.”<\/p>\n “A couple of days at a time. He was not on for seven months. That\u2019s just not fair and not accurate,” Rantz said.<\/p>\n CNN host Abby Phillip said he was filming a reality TV series.<\/p>\n SEAN DUFFY: TAKE A GREAT AMERICAN ROAD TRIP AND REDISCOVER OUR AMAZING COUNTRY<\/a><\/p>\n Rantz noted that Duffy filmed over the course of a couple of days throughout the seven months, which Phillip argued didn’t make it better.<\/p>\n “The View” co-host Ana Navarro speaks during “The View” on April 20, 2026. (ABC\/TheView)<\/p>\n Duffy has pushed back on criticism of the trip, posting in a statement to X, “The radical, miserable left has noticed our awesome Great American Road Trip trailer\u2026 and they hate it. It\u2019s too wholesome. It\u2019s too patriotic. It\u2019s too joyful. They\u2019re upset because they don\u2019t want you to celebrate America! And they definitely don\u2019t want you to teach your kids civics & patriotism.\u00a0So they tell lies to undermine the mission.”<\/p>\n He said in the statement that zero taxpayer dollars have been spent on him or his family.<\/p>\n LIBERAL ‘VIEW’ CO-HOST AGREES WITH TRUMP TRANSPORTATION SEC ON CALL TO DRESS BETTER WHILE TRAVELING<\/a><\/p>\n “The series was filmed in short, one to two day production windows \u2014 such as weekends and the kids\u2019 spring break,” his statement continued.<\/p>\n Duffy also said the series was reviewed by career ethics and budget officials at the DOT.<\/p>\n Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks during a news conference at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pa., on Oct. 24, 2025. (Ryan Collerd\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n “Our message is really simple: to love America is to see America. So put the phone down, hit the open road, and rediscover what makes America great,” the transportation secretary said.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n Duffy also addressed the criticism<\/a> during an interview with CNN’s Scott Jennings.<\/p>\n “I said seven months but it was over the course of, on average it was about two days a month on a road trip. Go to a destination, quickly film it. In April, I took the kids on spring break and hit multiple locations,” he said. “We have been one of the most productive DOTs in<\/a> the history of DOT. And so again, your Democrat colleagues on CNN, they know that, but it’s just a cheap shot to say that I’ve taken time off.”<\/p>\n Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The View” co-host Ana Navarro was called out on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[277972,38593,88,38592,6145,92],"class_list":["post-643868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-american-stories","tag-culture-trends","tag-entertainment","tag-fox-news-media","tag-transportation","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sean](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sean-duffy-smiling-scaled.jpg\")
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