"This term, okay. So this is when straight guys pretend to be gay with each other. Straight white guys. Straight white guys Black guys are just getting on it and they're like, they're doing really good."
Buttigieg made his national ambitions clear when he launched an ultimately unsuccessful presidential run in 2020 while mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He served in the Biden cabinet as transportation secretary, where he was forced to contend with a pile-on of crises.