CNN
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg cannot speak directly on Ron DeSantis’ campaign video that openly criticized Donald Trump’s limited sympathy toward LGBTQ people due to the Hatch Act.
But that didn’t stop him from wondering why DeSantis couldn’t do anything better with his time—and getting in one devastating dig at the 2024 hopeful.
“I’m going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up shirtless bodybuilders and just get to the bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space,” Buttigieg told Dana Bash during Sunday’s State of the Union. “Which is, again, who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off? And what public policy problems do you get up in the morning thinking about how to solve?”