Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made it clear to his daughter Paloma, 18, that he could “say no” if she was leaning toward attending Harvard University.
Duffy spoke to his soon-to-be college-bound daughter about her options during an episode of his YouTube series “The Great American Road Trip” that included a trip to Boston and stops at both Harvard and Boston University.
The clip began with Paloma suggesting that her parents would have a hard time refusing to let her go if Harvard was her choice, but Duffy was far from convinced.
“You can’t say no,” she said.
“To Harvard?” Duffy asked. “Me and Mom can say no.”
The video cut to show Duffy with his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, talking about their strong Catholic faith and how they believed it was a foundation for everything they did.
“It’s the basis of our marriage,” Campos-Duffy said. “It’s the basis of our family, so I’m nervous about the idea of Paloma going to Harvard. We spent a lot of time nurturing and providing formation for our kids, giving them an environment where they are steeped in faith, in values. and so the idea of dropping her off at a place that would undermine that or try to undo all those things makes me worried.”
Duffy added that what he wanted was to see his kids exposed to multiple viewpoints — and he was concerned that might not be what ultimately transpired at some liberal universities: “I don’t want them fed only one viewpoint that’s contrary to the way my kids were raised.”
He went on to tell Paloma that he believed she was a smart and beautiful young girl, but he worried that Harvard had “professionalized figuring out how they can take good, young girls like you and, I think, corrupt their minds.”
Duffy’s comments prompted immediate backlash from the Left, as the claimed that he was “afraid” that Paloma might get a glimpse of the outside world and decide that her parents were wrong about everything.
“Insanely stupid,” author Don Winslow posted. “I feel bad for @SecDuffy’s children.”
“Amazing — Trump Transpo secretary Sean Duffy tells his daughter he may refuse to send her to Harvard because it will ‘corrupt her mind’ … while simultaneously saying he wants her to ‘make choices for herself,'” The Tennessee Holler posted. “(Translation: he worries she’ll finally realize how full of [crap] he is).”
Very few of those complaining acknowledged the fact that, as Paloma’s parents, the Duffys would be the ones on the hook to pay for their daughter’s education — and thus had legitimate standing to challenge the merits of what they would be financing.
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