They only way to stop this from happening again is throwing all the grifters in jail later.

Not just Duffy, every one in his office that was cool with this.

Everyone from a company that funneled bribes thru this.

Every corp that bankrolled it

They do shit this blatantly because no one holds them accountable, so first chance we get hold them all accountable

Both NPR and the New York Times did the legwork to find that Duffy’s reality show isn’t funded by public money—it’s being underwritten by a nonprofit chartered in 2025 called, you guessed it, The Great American Road Trip Inc. Who are its sponsors? A ton of corporations subject to Duffy’s regulations, like Toyota, United Airlines, and Boeing. (A Toyota logo is given a conspicuous glamour shot in the trailer, something I clocked immediately.) Oh, also, the person behind the nonprofit is Tori Barnes, who previously lobbied for General Motors and the U.S. Travel Association, the latter of which is an organization that lobbies Duffy’s own department on behalf of the tourism industry.

So, basically, a recently created nonprofit—bankrolled by a laundry list of corporate interests—has facilitated a reality show that doubles as a cross-country pleasure trip for a high-powered Trump Cabinet member and his family. When the Times asked Barnes about the naked potential for graft in this arrangement, she pointed to a memorandum signed by the Department of Transportation and The Great American Road Trip Inc. that reads, in part, that the nonprofit won’t be compensated with “any favorable consideration for any future federal financial assistance, action, contract, or other financial award” by the federal government. But as the paper points out, there is no language in the memorandum extending that agreement to any of the companies sponsoring the organization. (A few more, while we’re at it: Shell, Chase Travel, Yellowstone Vacations, and, tellingly, Royal Caribbean Group.)

Basically it’s just one more avenue for paying bribes.

I hope the whole family gets some horrific incurable skin infection from the water park

I’m surprised it’s not airing on Fox News or Paramount/CBS.