The hosts of The View condemned Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for launching a new reality show to promote American tourism during a time of rising gas and jet fuel prices.

Duffy announced his new five-part YouTube series The Great American Road Trip, which will feature the Trump official, his wife Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy and their nine children taking a road trip across the United States. Duffy began his career working in reality television, with stints on The Real World: Boston and Road Rules: All Stars, where he met his wife.

While discussing the new reality show on The View, Whoopi Goldberg noted, “All production costs were covered by a nonprofit group, The Great American Road Trip Inc., not the tax payers.” She also noted they will not receive a salary or royalties and the project was approved by ethics and budget officials.

“While all of this is going on, the TSA workers went 44 days without pay, Spirit Airlines just disappeared, just no longer there. It collapsed,” Goldberg said. She also pointed to the rising gas prices due to the war in Iran. “But Sean was doing another reality show,” she quipped. “Tax payers pay his salary. Is this really what he should be doing?”

As Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin pointed out, there are some glaring conflicts of interest here.

“This entire government is a reality show,” Navarro commented. She pointed out that the companies that sponsored the show through The Great American Road Trip Inc. – Boeing, Toyota, Shell, Royal Caribbean Group and United Airlines, – are “all under the supervision and jurisdiction of the department of transportation.”

She continued, “The conflict of interest here is glaring. I don’t know how many Americans, how many average Americans, will be able to go on a road trip when I’m paying $5.99 for a gallon of gas. It just seems that the tone deafness has no limits.”

Hostin added, “This is such a conflict of interest, when I put my lawyer hat on, I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness!'”

She then noted that ABC “reached out to the companies that sponsored this but has not heard back.”

The Great American Road Trip was created in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary. The five-part series will feature a meeting with President Donald Trump, according to the trailer. The show has faced considerable backlash since it’s been announced.

Duffy dismissed the controversy in a statement on X against the “radical, miserable left.”

“They’re upset because they don’t want you to celebrate America! And they definitely don’t want you to teach your kids civics & patriotism. So they tell lies to undermine the mission,” he claimed.

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.