The trailer released a few days ago looks like any new reality television show. A well-known TV personality and athlete takes his wife and nine children for a road trip cross-country, climbing the Rocky steps and visiting the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, seeing Fenway Park in Boston and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, enjoying water slides and riding snowmobiles, laughing, chatting — and sometimes squabbling. 

The trailer even shows a healthy dose of "lows," including an apparent injury and a hospital visit.

But this isn't your typical reality show.

"The Great American Road Trip" stars Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and starts with a visit to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. The show, which will stream on YouTube, boasts corporate giant sponsors, some of whom may have paid up to $1 million, that include Toyota, Boeing, Shell and United Airlines — all companies that the U.S. Department of Transportation regulates. And it comes as Duffy's........

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