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BREAKING: Transportation Secretary's reality show sponsored by an airline and a plane-maker; Press awaits the spinoff, 'The Great American Recusal'  ···  RALLY: President asks supporters to pretend he's on the ballot; supporters ask whether that comes with a pretend sticker  ···  TRADE: Canada 'at war' with the U.S. over tariffs; Press notes it is the first war in which both sides apologized first  ···  CORRECTIONS: The Press reported that a think tank had until 'close of business' to retract a chart; the chart has asked for an extension  ···
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The Daily Flip · Reality TV Desk

Secretary Buttigieg Releases a Family Reality Show on YouTube, Sponsored by the Airline and the Plane-Maker He Regulates

'The Great American Road Trip' premiered this week after a two-month delay for what the Secretary described as ethics editing. The sponsor list was not edited

By The Gander DeskAug 23, 2026
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Rewritten from real coverage of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's 'The Great American Road Trip,' the family reality series that premiered on YouTube on Aug. 19 with Boeing, United Airlines, Toyota, Shell and others among its sponsors, prompting an ethics complaint. Tap flip and watch 'a celebration of America's 250th' turn back into 'the regulator took the regulated on vacation.'
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg released a multi-episode reality series this week in which he, his wife and their children travel the country in a recreational vehicle, visit national landmarks and are conveyed from stop to stop by a list of corporate sponsors that the Department of Transportation is, on weekdays, supposed to be regulating.

The Secretary said the delay was to make sure the show complied with ethics rules, a process that appears to have involved editing the episodes and leaving the sponsors where they were. A watchdog group filed a complaint with the department's inspector general anyway, noting that the family received flights, hotel rooms and a cruise from companies with business before the Secretary, and that the phrase 'gift from a regulated entity' does not become a different phrase when it is filmed.

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Trade War Desk

President Obama Puts a 50% Tariff on $20 Billion of Canadian Goods After Talks Collapse, Then Posts That Canada 'Wants the Benefits of Being a State, Without Being One!!!'

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Postal Desk

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Resignation Desk

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Party Unity Desk

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Inaugural Desk

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Back Channel Desk

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Convention Desk

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Audit Desk

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Bipartisan Desk

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