Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has been talked about as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential nominee.
Pete Buttigieg was less than thrilled when President Donald Trump called him out Thursday during a news conference.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg fired back at Trump after being blamed for the recent plane crash in Washington, D.C.
Pete Buttigieg, former transportation secretary and former South Bend mayor, called Trump's comments during today's press briefing "despicable."
"Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch," Buttigieg wrote on X.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Trump on Thursday for his reaction to the devastating incident after Trump baselessly blamed the Biden administration’s policies for threatening air safety. Buttigieg called out the president for “lying” about the crash in a post on social media platform X.
Trump left more questions than answers in his expletive attacks on Democrats and diversity practices during Thursday's press conference.
In his first news conference since the aircraft collision over the Potomac River, President Donald Trump on Thursday implied that diversity, equity and inclusion programs could be the cause, although an investigation has only just begun into the fatal disaster.
An interview with former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem about Trump's efforts to blame the D.C. crash on DEI, his anger at facing scrutiny, and why all this bodes badly about what's to come.
Investigators recovered the black boxes from a passenger plane that collided mid-air with a military helicopter killing all 67 people.
Americans turn to their leaders for solace in times of mourning. Donald Trump has used national tragedies to make political points or demean critics.