Tr*mp’s ‘Real World’ circus: Transportation pick Sean Duffy & his wife are even more vile than we thought
The Real World alum Sean Duffy, who has been tapped to replace Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation. Talk about a downgrade.Stay woke with our briefing while staying informed on all things LGBTQ+ entertainment, life, and more!Thank you, Mr.
President. I’m eager to help you usher in a new golden age of transportation. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/lrBFLdo4D8Duffy made a name for himself in the late ’90s by appearing on The Real World: Boston in 1997 followed by Road Rules: All Stars in 1998, where he met his future wife, Fox News personality Rachel Campos (more on her in a sec), as well as a string of other trashy reality shows in the early ’00s.Much of his time on The Real World involved drinking, partying and getting wasted, repeatedly trying to seduce a lesbian cast mate (Genesis Moss Keefer) on camera despite the fact that she was a lesbian, and bickering with cast mate Kameelah Phillips, who he called a “b*tch”, accused of being racist against white people, and compared to Hitler.Phillips has since gone on to become a respected OBGYN, public speaker, and women’s health advocate.
As for Duffy, after his reality TV career dried up, he got into politics. He rebranded himself as a far-right ideologue, serving in the U.S.
House of Representatives from Wisconsin’s 7th district from 2011 through 2019, until he resigned so he could return to his trashy TV roots by taking a gig at–you guessed it!–Fox News.As a congressman, Duffy opposed both marriage equality and employment protections for LGBTQ+ people working for the federal government, and he supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage nationwide.He also opposed abortion and at one point reportedly tried arguing that his extreme anti-abortion stance was actually pro-LGBTQ+ because he wanted to protect gay fetuses, who he feared could be outed through prenatal diagnostic testing and aborted by expecting parents who had been hoping to for a heterosexual baby.
