Pete Buttigieg brushed off Tucker Carlson’s claim that he is a “fake gay” man by turning the MAGA commentator’s attack into a punchline.
Carlson’s bizarre comments came during an episode of The Tucker Carlson Show in early September when he told his guest, Michael Knowles, he wanted to ask Buttgieg some “very specific questions about gay sex” as he baselessly accused the former Transportation Secretary of bring a “fake gay guy.”
Buttigieg, who served in former President Joe Biden’s cabinet after an unsuccessful run in the Democratic presidential primaries, came out in 2015 and married his husband Chasten three years later, with who he has two children.
The Democrat sat down with Kara Swisher at the University of Michigan’s for a ranging conversation in front of a live audience when the host raised Carlson’s remarks.
“First of all, I do not think I want to discuss anything with Tucker Carlson,” Buttigieg quipped to applause, before the punch: “But also, but I cannot think of a topic I would like to discuss less with Tucker Carlson than that – even though I will admit some level of morbid curiosity on what in the hell he thinks – actually no.”
He continued: “I suppose it’s a sign of progress that their idea of a conspiracy is that I’m actually secretly straight.”
“We are through the looking glass now,” he added.
“Do you know what you have to say? You have to say, ‘Tucker, I’m not interested, okay?’” Swisher joked.
She followed: “It’s worked with people who attacked me. I’m like, ‘stop flirting with me.’ They go away really quick.”
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