Sean Duffy faces backlash for new family reality show: ‘unfocused and out of touch’

US transportation secretary announces The Great American Road Trip amid transportation crises and rising fuel prices

Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, hauled his family into a van for a wholesome, seven-month trek across the nation, which was filmed for an upcoming reality TV program, he told Fox News on Friday.

The revelation drew immediate blowback as “tone-deaf”, from critics who pointed toward various crises that have recently hammered the country’s transportation sector.