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Feb. 22, 2023 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Pete Buttigieg Couldn't Care LESS About East Palestine - WATCH.
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Well, Pothole Pete Buttigieg is at it again.
Our failed transportation secretary, who's worried about things like there being too many white people employed on a particular construction site and how that's somehow racist, rather than fixing the disastrous infrastructure problems that are plaguing our country every day.
As we had multiple toxic train derailments last week alone, Pete Buttigieg is out there lecturing us about racism.
And this week on GMA, he gets on there to talk about the criticism of the government's crappy handling of the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, as we're going through a toxic waste bill.
Quote, look, I was the mayor of my hometown for eight years.
We dealt with a lot of disasters.
That's like Pete's only qualification, right?
Disasters. Disasters.
He didn't deal with anything. OK, South Bend, Indiana was certainly a disaster there.
He was there apparently for eight years and did it.
But because he checked a diversity box, he gets to run for president.
Because he then ran for president, we got to make him a cabinet secretary.
Then we got to run and tout that we have the first openly gay cabinet secretary.
None of it's based on competence.
He's failed in every way, shape or form.
And then he took paternity leave while The people of America, all 350 million of them, suffered.
Watch for yourself. The administration has come under some fire for its response.
The mayor of East Palestine has said it took nearly two weeks for the White House to contact him.
There were shouts of, where's Pete Buttigieg, at a town hall meeting last week.
What's your response to that?
When are you going to go to East Palestine?
Well, I am planning to go, and our folks were on the ground from the first hours.
I do want to stress that the NTSB needs to be able to do its work independently.
But when I go, the focus is going to be on action.
Look, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years.
We dealt with a lot of disasters, natural and human.
Well, he's going to finally make it there two weeks later, three weeks later.
Guess what? Just like FEMA, when they said, we can't help the people of East Palestine.
We can't do anything about it.
It doesn't really matter. Then Donald Trump, my dad, a real leader, steps up and says, he's going there this Wednesday, like tomorrow.
Okay? All of a sudden, FEMA... We have re-evaluated the situation and now we're going to do something.
Because it's all BS, folks.
It's all about the optics.
Just like Mayor Pete. He checks off a box.
He gets to be cabinet secretary.
They make a big deal. First openly gay cabinet.
You know, Rick Riddell doesn't get any credit for that when he was appointed into a similar position by Donald Trump.
No, no, he's a conservative, so we can't talk about it.
They figure out the ways it's different.
They highlight one and ignore the other because that's all it is, folks.
It's about identity politics.
So Mayor Pothole Pete, Okay, who's overseen the worst infrastructure disasters of our lifetime, who is just focused on anything but like transportation and our infrastructure.
Pothole Pete, you know, gets to talk about all the things he did.
Look, I understand. I'm different.
I did a great job. No, you didn't.
You checked a bunch of boxes.
So they gave you positions of power.
You failed miserably.
350 million Americans have suffered under it.
You won't bother to go to the things that you're supposed to be overseeing.
And now you're going to go after you've been pressured by the Internet and probably by the fact that Donald Trump has decided to lead since our own leaders refuse.
That's not leadership, Pete.
That's failure. It's failure.
It's a disaster.
You've done nothing. And you shouldn't get any credit for now showing up after being bullied into it three weeks later.
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