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Adam Gabbatt

Sean Duffy’s family road-trip reality series: we watched it – will anyone else?

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Sean Duffy, the transport secretary, at an event in Washington in May last year. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

It would be fair to say that the Trump administration’s celebration of the United States’s 250th birthday has been unorthodox – involving, as it has, an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event at the White House, a poorly attended state fair, and a car race through Washington, before which the US president will take a lap of honor.

On Tuesday, however, Donald Trump officials dropped perhaps their weirdest 250th offering yet: a six-part travel show in which the US secretary of transportation take his entire family on a startlingly self-involved, creatively funded road trip around the country.

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