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Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Pete Buttigieg, criticized former Vice President Mike Pence’s latest comment that the transportation secretary had gone on “maternity depart,” telling ABC’s “The View” that the dig “flies within the face” of Pence’s household values.
Over the weekend, Pence delivered the road on the annual Gridiron Membership dinner in Washington – an occasion that historically options politicians making jokes about notable Washington figures. Pence had stated, “When Pete’s two kids have been born, he took two months maternity depart, the place upon hundreds of vacationers have been stranded in airports, the air site visitors system shut down, airplanes almost collided in midair. I imply, Pete Buttigieg is the one individual in human historical past to have a toddler and all the remainder of us get postpartum despair.”
The White Home known as on Pence to apologize for what they described as a “homophobic joke” that was “offensive and inappropriate” and Chasten Buttigieg advised “The View” on Thursday that he hasn’t heard from the previous vp. He additionally responded to Pence’s former chief of workers Marc Brief, who earlier this week stated the White Home “ought to spare America the fake outrage” and that it “could be sensible to focus much less on placating the woke police and focus extra on financial institution failures, planes almost colliding in mid-air, prepare derailments, and the continued provide chain disaster.”
Buttigieg advised “The View,” “I feel it’s not woke … to say that one thing is homophobic or misogynistic. It doesn’t make it woke, you already know, it doesn’t make you a snowflake to inform somebody that they’ve made a mistake.”
“I feel Republican or Democrat, we will all agree that … when your child’s linked to a ventilator, you don’t need to be wherever however their bedside,” he added, citing the truth that the secretary would go to a digital background within the hospital room’s lavatory to get on a Zoom name so no one may see he was in a hospital.
“I simply don’t take that when it’s directed at my household and I don’t suppose anyone else would, particularly while you carry a really small, medically fragile youngster into it,” he continued.
Buttigieg additionally asserted that Pence’s dig “flies within the face of what he says he’s.”
“He says he’s a ‘household values’ Republican. … I don’t suppose he’s working towards what he preaches right here,” he added, arguing that the dig was “a part of a a lot greater development.”
Talking to reporters in New Hampshire later Thursday, Pence stated that Pete Buttigieg “can’t take a joke.”
The Buttigiegs adopted twins in 2021. After saying he would take two months paternity depart to be together with his new child son and daughter, Pete Buttigieg obtained an onslaught of damaging reactions from right-wing pundits.
“It’s an even bigger dialog in regards to the work that ladies do in households, proper?” Chasten Buttigieg added. “Taking a swipe in any respect girls and all households, and anticipating that ladies would keep residence and lift kids, I feel, is a fairly misogynistic view, particularly from a person who simply final yr stated that we needs to be supporting extra individuals who undertake.”
This story has been up to date with further developments.
