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Failed Transportation Secretary
00:03:01
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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. | |
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Failed Oversight
00:00:55
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| 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. | |