Sean Duffy Warns His Daughter She’ll Be ‘Perverted And Contorted’ By Attending Harvard

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pledged to “lean into America’s 250th birthday” with his new travel-themed reality series, but his thoughts on a different subject are raising eyebrows among viewers.

“The Great American Road Trip” chronicles Duffy’s seven-month trek across the U.S. with his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children. The second episode, which was unveiled as part of the delayed full series drop on YouTube Wednesday, finds the Duffys preparing to visit Boston to tour the city’s colleges on behalf of their 18-year-old daughter, Paloma.

Titled “College Dreams and a Homecoming,” the episode is a callback to Duffy’s reality TV roots, as he rose to prominence in 1997 as one of the stars of “The Real World: Boston” before entering the political arena. It kicks off with him urging Paloma to reconsider attending Harvard University if she gets accepted, as the school is likely to feed her views that are “contrary to the way my kids were raised.”

“They have professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls like you and, I think, corrupt their minds,” he explains.

When Paloma suggests attending a “liberal” institution like Harvard would offer her a less “one-sided” education than if she chose a conservative school, Duffy stands firm, noting that she’s at risk of becoming “perverted and contorted.”

It wasn’t long before isolated clips of Duffy’s remarks began circulating online, where they drew a blistering response.

“What’s ‘perverted and contorted’ is denying your child the chance to attend Harvard if she’s able to get in,” one person wrote on X.

Added another, “This is so depressing, she has certain aspirations and as a parent he should support her. Instead he’s crushing her dreams. He’s also insinuating that she can’t think for herself. I really do feel bad for her.”

The response to Duffy’s remarks isn’t particularly surprising. When the trailer for “The Great American Road Trip” was unveiled in May, many deemed it ill-timed, given the numerous issues ― from soaring gas prices to high-profile aviation accidents ― that had affected the transit sector of late.

“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,” Pete Buttigieg, who served as transportation secretary under former President Joe Biden, wrote on X.

It wasn’t long before Duffy responded to the “radical, miserable left” who had slammed “The Great American Roadtrip” by arguing that it was “too wholesome” and “too patriotic” for their liking.

“They’re upset because they don’t want you to celebrate America! And they definitely don’t want you to teach your kids civics & patriotism,” he wrote on X. “So they tell lies to undermine the mission.”