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Harvard figured out how to ‘corrupt’ young girls’ minds, Sean Duffy tells daughter

Duffy said Catholic values would not allow him to send Paloma to Harvard, and the clip from his reality show drew online backlash.

  • On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's reality show, The Great American Road Trip, debuted on YouTube, featuring a clip where Duffy tells his 18-year-old daughter, Paloma Duffy, that attending Harvard University is "out of the question."
  • Citing his Catholic values, Duffy argued that Harvard academics have "professionalized figuring out how they can take good young girls and corrupt their minds," urging Paloma to reconsider the institution.
  • The Latter-day Saints Democrats account wrote that keeping a child out of Harvard because of fears they will be "corrupted" reveals a lack of confidence, while critics on X called the position "perverted and contorted."
  • Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the show "brutally out of touch," noting that regular families struggle with rising gas prices while Duffy produces the reality series.
  • This personal stance arrives amid ongoing tension between the Trump administration and Harvard, including a March lawsuit accusing the school of failing to address antisemitism, which a Boston judge dismissed Thursday as "too isolated and episodic.
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Mediaite broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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