Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been exposed as a thoroughly unqualified Biden cabinet appointment who only got the job because he checks the right box. Regardless it’s the chemical burning in Ohio, the baby formula shortage or the supply chain crisis, Buttigieg has been completely and thoroughly exposed.
Recently, his big pal and mayor of College Park, Maryland was arrested for child porn. “Mayor Pete” seems rather agitated by that, as was evident by his meltdown and tantrum throwing on CNN during yet another softball interview today. He whined about Tucker Carlson.
Pete Buttigieg admits he got it wrong on the Ohio train derailment response.
But while the criticism is fair, he says, the critics are mostly not.
“It’s really rich to see some of these folks – the former president, these Fox hosts – who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,” the Transportation Secretary said. “You think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?”
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Buttigieg acknowledged mistakes. He said he should have gone to East Palestine, Ohio, earlier. He said he failed to anticipate the political fallout from the toxic train derailment, despite months of transportation problems like mass flight cancellations and an air traffic control system shutdown that left many Americans frustrated.
Then Mayor Pete decided to cuss out Trump:
His voice got tighter.
“Who cares what shoes I was wearing, when I was there to draw attention to an agenda that will save lives on our railroads?” Buttigieg said.
As for any suggestion from Trump or supporters that the former president’s trip to East Palestine pressured him to go: “That’s bull—-,” Buttigieg said. “We were already going to go.”
For now, he says he wants to leverage the attacks over the derailment into action that could otherwise take years to come through government bureaucracy.
“People who have sided with the rail industry again and again and again are suddenly acting like rail safety advocates,” Buttigieg said. “But it also creates the chance to call them to the table and say, ‘OK, if we’re serious now, let’s do this.’”