Trump Junior Launches Disgusting Bigoted Attack On Pete Buttigieg

Donald Trump, Jr. claimed in a video this week that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg only got the job that he's in now because he "checked certain boxes", and his sexuality was apparently one of those boxes. Junior made it clear that he believes Buttigieg got the job because he is gay, and says that Buttigieg's lack of experience is responsible for a host of problems the country has seen in the past year. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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On Wednesday of this week, the F a a experienced a computer outage that grounded near every single flight in the United States for several hours, once again, causing more chaos across America's airports. Later that evening, Donald Trump Jr. Made another one of his frantic constant hand moving videos where he attacked transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg by suggesting that the only reason Buttigieg is our transportation secretary is of course, because he's gay, that as Trump Jr. Implied, is the only qualification that mattered to the Democrats. Here is what Junior had to say. This is a blow to people who get really important jobs with no experience to basically check off some identity politics boxes folks. Mayor Pete, mayor of the small town in Indiana, he's a gay American, so he should just run for president and we're going to get behind it. And guess what? When you don't get that, if you get in line with the Democrat Party, we will give you a major cabinet position where it doesn't really matter because equality means of opportunity, not of outcome.

In the age of equity, there seems to be some scary stuff going on at the faa. Guess what? When you were 36,000 feet in the air, maybe you just want a competent person there. Not someone who checked the box like to me, mayor Pete did. So the only thing you brought up about him was that he was gay. And then you mentioned that, uh oh, he is checking the boxes for the, you know, the social Justice warriors basically. So you think Buttigieg only got that job because he's a gay American and a Democrat. Now listen, you can criticize Pete Buttigieg all day long if you want. You can talk about where his administration has failed. But if you're gonna sit there and go for that low hanging fruit, trying to say like, oh, he is just got the job because he is gay, then you've already lost the argument.

Because believe it or not, there's actually good arguments to be made that yeah, Buttigieg is in over his head. We have seen disaster after disaster in this country with regard to things controlled by the transportation office in just the last 12 months. You know, the rail workers strike that. Basically this administration screwed up royally by siding with the uh, uh, train station, um, the supply chain shortages. The Southwest Airline debacle this FAA failure this week. Yeah, there's a lot of failures at this administration with the transportation, uh, uh, department, and they haven't been handled well at all. And Pete Buttigieg is in charge and he doesn't seem to have solutions to these problems. Sure.

But he was not put in that position because he is a gay man. And for Trump, Jr. To even suggest that is disgustingly bigoted. You wanna talk about people that aren't qualified to have the positions that they're in Donald Trump Jr. Like literally, I don't even have to go into details. You are Donald Trump Jr. And you have the audacity to say that there's people in this country that are in positions they don't deserve. They're just in it because of their name, because they checked a couple boxes. Gee, I wonder how many boxes you checked to be in the position to be running the entire Trump organization. Huh? Are you actually qualified to do it? Might there be somebody in this country who's better at it? I'm sure there is, but you got the job not just because you're a Nepo baby, but because you checked a couple of boxes yourself.

You're not qualified for that position.