Trump cracks up policy team with Buttigieg roast in the Oval

by DBS Wire

It was classic Oval Office theater on Wednesday—President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy turning a routine policy announcement into a full-blown roast of former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And yes, the name-mispronunciation gag made a triumphant comeback.

Trump was unveiling his administration’s plan to bring car prices back down to Earth, scrapping the Biden-era fuel-efficiency mandates that critics say forced automakers to build the cars Washington wanted—not the cars American families actually buy. Buttigieg, of course, was the face of Biden’s Transportation Department during that regulatory binge.

As Duffy began laying out the failures of his predecessor—“Biden and Buttigieg actually did an analysis using—”
Trump interrupted with a deadpan: “Boot-edge-edge.”

Without missing a beat, Duffy echoed him like a seasoned warm-up act: “Edge-edge, that’s right. Boot-edge-edge.”

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The room erupted—Trump, Duffy, cabinet members. It was the kind of laughter you only hear when everyone knows the joke, and the target, all too well.

And it didn’t stop there. Not even a minute later, Buttigieg’s name surfaced again, and Duffy dutifully revived the now-standard Trumpworld pronunciation.

“These rules are gonna allow the automakers to make vehicles that Americans wanna purchase,” Duffy said, “not vehicles that Joe Biden and ‘Boot-edge-edge’ want them to build, which is important.”

Cue another wave of Oval Office chuckles.
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This wasn’t a one-off. Trump has made it a running bit to deliberately butcher Buttigieg’s famously tricky surname whenever it pops up—he even pulled the same move during Tuesday’s cabinet meeting. And let’s be honest: if Buttigieg hadn’t spent half of 2021 lecturing Americans about electric vehicles during a supply-chain crisis, Trump probably wouldn’t have such an easy punchline.

But really—can you blame him? After four years of Buttigieg explaining why Americans should absolutely love high gas prices and electric car mandates, perhaps this is the karmic boomerang.

And hey—if Washington insists on clown-car regulations, it might as well enjoy a little comedy with them.