President Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his wife, Fox News star Rachel Campos-Duffy, who met on the MTV reality TV series “The Real World: Boston,” appeared on Fox News to reveal that over a recent seven-month period, the Duffys and their children have filmed episodes of a new reality series, “The Great American Road Trip.”
As seen below, the family kicked off the show by visiting President Trump in the Oval Office. (The Duffys have nine children.)
I love a good road trip, but this is brutally out of touch: a Trump Cabinet member making a documentary about himself while regular families can’t afford road trips anymore, because Trump and his war put gas prices through the roof. https://t.co/iNvdDGX4Bt
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) May 8, 2026
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who served in the Biden administration, reacted on social media: “I love a good road trip, but this is brutally out of touch: a Trump Cabinet member making a documentary about himself while regular families can’t afford road trips anymore, because Trump and his war put gas prices through the roof.”
Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, also wrote of the show: “The same Duffys who threw endless fits on national television when Pete was working from our son’s ICU bedside are now bragging about their multi-month, taxpayer-funded family road trip while gas and grocery prices soar for American families because of Trump’s war of choice.” (The Buttigiegs have two children.)
Stand down, Chas.
All production costs were paid for by the non-profit, The Great American Road Trip, Inc. No one in my family – including my husband – were paid to do this. We did it for FREE to celebrate America 250 & encourage other Americans to get off couches & screens and… https://t.co/s7ddr7iu6R— Rachel Campos-Duffy (@RCamposDuffy) May 8, 2026
Rachel Campos-Duffy replied to Glezman Buttigieg: “Stand down, Chas. All production costs were paid for by the non-profit, The Great American Road Trip, Inc. No one in my family – including my husband – were paid to do this.”
She added: “It was filmed in small one and two day stops over the course of seven months.”
[NOTE: The executive director of The Great American Road Trip is Tori Barnes, a veteran Washington, D.C. lobbyist and General Motors public affairs executive, who served as Executive Vice President at the U.S. Travel Association (2017–2025) and is now founding principal at Anchor Solutions LLC.]
Top sponsors of the Duffys’ show are Shell Oil, Boeing, and Toyota.