Here's Your Naked Transportation Secretary, America

Video shows Trump Transportation nominee Sean Duffy stripped down to his infrastructure

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Former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) represents a dramatic escalation of RePresident-elect Donald Trump’s penchant for nominating dudes caught on camera without their shirts.

And, in Duffy’s case, without his or anyone else’s pants.

Trump has already announced other nominees whose mere shirtlessness drew attention from both parties. Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., drew raves from the right for his physique despite there being zero correlation between personal fitness and fitness to oversee public-health agencies.

And Defense Department nominee Pete Hegseth got lots of attention from the left for pictures of him shirtless, revealing not only his pecs, but his symbols of Christian nationalism harking back to the Crusades, which were crusades against Jewish and Muslim people.

But yesterday, Trump upped the ante by naming someone who’s actually been caught on camera going the full MAGA.

Trump extended extended his male-nudity streak by nominating Duffy, who literally streaked (while holding something in front of his genitalia) on camera in 1997.

In the clip below, Duffy at first seems to approximate a strip tease and then — fully naked but covering his genitals — appears to rub his naked ass on the window. The scene runs a little more than 20 seconds. Duffy was in his mid-to-late 20s at the time.

It’s not clear how women in the scene felt about being in the same room with the naked Duffy, whose party opposes letting transgender women use women’s bathrooms while clothed.

Duffy was tapped by Trump to run the Department of Transportation, which oversees transportation infrastructure and regulates aspects of air, train, and road travel. Duffy’s most relevant experience enforcing rules for America’s roads is his work on “Road Rules: All Stars," the MTV reality show, and also "Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons."

His prior experience in 1997’s “Real World: Boston,” from MTV, included Duffy getting naked in front of cast members. The music appears to have been added by MTV to mask the silence that would otherwise underscore how awkward it all is.

In 2010, the New York Times referred to a video of Duffy, in the show, that was then utilized against Duffy when he ran for Congress:

“Some of Mr. Duffy’s youthful indiscretions that were captured on film and dredged up by his opponents included a drunken toga party and images of him dancing on a pool table in his underwear.”

It’s not clear whether the Times was referring to a separate clip. The clip above doesn’t seem to involve a pool table. And the underwear visible in the beginning of the clip doesn’t make it through the whole thing. Duffy conceals his personal infrastructure, but MTV appears to have digitally blurred some of it.

The clip above is an excerpt from a slightly longer clip posted on YouTube in 2012 — while Duffy was in his first congressional term — by a small account called OppoVideoResearch, which hasn’t posted any clips for years.

Although Trump said Duffy is qualified for the job because of his experience and connections from his time in Congress, it’s not clear what the jibbity-fuck Trump is talking about. None of Duffy’s committee or even subcommittee assignments involved transportation aside from him having to get to and from the meetings.

The largest organization Duffy is known to have co-managed is his family, which includes the nine children he has with his wife.

In the video, however, Duffy displays one important Trump criterion, almost all of his white skin, and very nearly shows his other criterion, his presumably white ween. All of Trump’s appointees have at least one of those criteria, and most have both.

Announcing Duffy, Trump said that his mandate will include purging America’s airlines of non-white employees. “[H]e will make our skies safe again by eliminating DEI for pilots and air traffic controllers,” Trump posted with zero sense of irony or shame about his almost all-white cabinet.

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