Sean Duffy Warns His Daughter Harvard Takes ‘Good Young Girls’ and ‘Corrupts Their Minds’ in New YouTube Series

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned his teenage daughter that Harvard University takes “good young girls” and “corrupts their minds” in an episode of his new YouTube reality show, The Great American Road Trip.

The series, which follows Duffy, his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children as they travel across the country, was initially slated to premiere in June as part of celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary. Its delayed release had drawn scrutiny after the ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint asking the agency’s inspector general to investigate whether Duffy’s participation violated federal gift and travel rules. CREW also raised concerns about corporate sponsors with business before the DOT, including Toyota, United Airlines, and Boeing.

In August, Duffy confirmed that the delay was because he was required to “make sure I come into compliance with all of the ethics rules now that we have in government.”

Six episodes of The Great American Road Trip were ultimately released on Wednesday. Episode two, titled “Boston: College Dreams and a Homecoming,” contains conversations between Duffy and his daughter Paloma, who graduated from high school in June.

The moment in question came as the two were discussing colleges they plan to tour while in the area, including Harvard and Boston College.

Read a transcript of the exchange below:

DUFFY: Let’s say you got into Harvard. Would you be pushing us to actually have you go?

PALOMA: Probably, because if I don’t get in, I kind of like accepted it. I’m not gonna be upset, but if I do get in, I feel like you can’t say no.

DUFFY: To Harvard?

PALOMA: Yeah.

DUFFY: Well, me and mom can say no.

The scene then cut to show a private interview between Duffy and Campos-Duffy, in which they stress the importance of Catholicism in their lives and worry that a place like Harvard would “try to undo those things.”

Duffy and his daughter then returned to the screen, with the transportation secretary continuing, “Listen, my problem is we have thought about how we raised you, and how hard we’ve worked to, I think, raise what is a remarkable young girl. If I send you there, I think what happens is they have professionalized figuring out how they can take good, young girls like you and, I think, corrupt their minds.”

Paloma then pushed back, arguing that attending a more liberal school after growing up in a conservative family would actually give her a better understanding of the world, to which Duffy responded that there would still be a risk of her getting “perverted and contorted.”

Watch above via YouTube.

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