John Oliver Skewers Sean Duffy’s Road Trip Reality Show, One Bizarre Detail At A Time

John Oliver has joined a growing chorus of viewers left unimpressed by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s latest foray into reality television.

Duffy last week released “The Great American Road Trip” on YouTube after a significant delay. The six-episode series chronicles Duffy’s seven-month trek across the U.S. with his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children.

Since its release, “The Great American Road Trip” has drawn mostly negative reviews, with The New York Times likening it to “watching a Cabinet member Kardashianize his family while vacationing on the corporate dime.”

On Sunday’s episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver echoed those sentiments, pointing out that Duffy’s insistence that the show didn’t represent a conflict of interest despite sponsorship from companies that are directly overseen by his department rang a little hollow.

Watch John Oliver discuss “The Great American Road Trip” below.

“The only worse answer to ‘Who paid for this?’ than ‘the American taxpayer’ is ‘a bunch of companies I oversee and regulate,’” Oliver said. “Actually, I suppose an even worse answer would be ‘a bunch of companies I oversee and regulate, and also my close personal friend Jeffrey Epstein,’ but that is still pretty bad.”

Elsewhere, the host zoomed in on a controversial moment from the second episode of “The Great American Road Trip,” in which Duffy urges his 18-year-old daughter, Paloma, not to attend Boston’s Harvard University if she’s accepted.

His reasoning, as seen in highly circulated clips from the show, is that the Ivy League institution’s teachings would conflict with Paloma’s conservative upbringing, thus leaving her mind “perverted and contorted.”

Reacting to a clip of Duffy’s remarks, Oliver quipped, “Is there anything less relatable than a family whose conflict is, ‘How do I tell my daughter she can’t go to Harvard because we did too good a job raising her?’”

He also joked that Paloma’s potential interest in Harvard was, in fact, a source of concern ― though not for the reason Duffy suggested.

“Don’t be worried that Harvard’s going to corrupt your daughter’s mind,” he said. “Worry that, if she goes there ― like every other Harvard grad ― she’s never going to shut the fuck up about it.”

Duffy, who rose to prominence on “The Real World: Boston” before entering the political sphere, isn’t the only member of President Donald Trump’s administration to try their hand at a YouTube series.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month unveiled “The Real Food Show,” aimed at making “healthy, affordable cooking simple and accessible for every American” and featuring a host of guest chefs.

Last week, however, CNN raised doubts about the show’s methodology when correspondent Tom Foreman pointed out that ingredients for one of the featured recipes, intended for a family of four, ended up costing him substantially more at a local grocery store than Kennedy had claimed.

True to form, Kennedy responded by accusing CNN and anchor Erin Burnett ― who hosted the segment ― of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”