Pete Buttigieg Sums Up How Trump Makes Our Lives Worse In Refreshingly Simple Way
The former transportation secretary is receiving praise online for urging liberals to use everyday language to communicate — especially when it comes to articulating the ways President Donald Trump sucks.
'We do have to look at what we're doing that makes it hard to hear what we have to say,' Buttigieg told NPR last week. 'Too often, we talk in terms that are academic, and when we're talking about deeply important things like freedom and democracy, we still have to have a way of talking about it that relates to how everyday life is different.'
Buttigieg then demonstrated how effectively simple language can point out how Americans' lives are 'different and worse' now that we have 'an autocrat in power' who's 'appointing incompetent people over very important things in our lives.'
He went on to take aim at four of Trump's Cabinet members.
'So, right now we have the secretary of defense in charge of defending the American people who is accidentally texting military strike information internally to journalists,' Buttigieg said of Pete Hegseth, who did exactly that in March when a staffer unwittingly added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat.
Buttigieg then moved on to the health secretary.
'We have the person in charge of American public health who is a quack, who doesn't believe in medicine,' Buttigieg said of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been spreading misinformation about vaccinesfor years. 'And now measles is on the rise in America.'
He then called out the education secretary, whose mistakes are extra embarrassing for someone in charge of America's academic future.
'We have a secretary of education in charge of your kids' educational well-being who has spoken about the importance of 'A-One,'' Buttigieg said, referring to Linda McMahon. 'Which means she does not understand that the acronym is 'AI.' Which means she does not understand the most important development affecting education in our lifetimes.'
Buttigieg's final criticism was directed at a Cabinet member notorious for her cosplay and slow response to a devastating natural disaster.
'We have a secretary of Homeland Security who sat on funding and did not allow it to go to Texas during the floods for at least two days, for no good reason,' Buttigieg said of Kristi Noem.
'Those are the kinds of things I think we need to talk about before anybody can hear us in these high-minded academic discussions about freedom and democracy,' Buttigieg concluded.
When a clip of Buttigieg's remarks made its way to X, formerly Twitter, many left-leaning folks appreciated his 'simple, vivid language that everyone can understand.'
'Pete just seamlessly rattles off an itemized list of how Trump's Cabinet officials have f*cked up and how it impacts your life,' one user noted.
'Simple yet brilliant,' another user echoed.
'Buttigieg is so good at breaking things down in clear language,' another user said.
'trumps horrible yes men stooge picks for cabinet undeniably makes your life worse as an American,' an X user said, agreeing with Buttigieg.
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