The Democratic candidate said he thought the comparison was 'kinda funny' but suggested that perhaps the president could have made better use of his time.
President Donald Trump on Friday reached into his big bag of insulting nicknames and christened Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg as "Alfred E. Neuman." However, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor said he was probably too young to get Trump's joke.
When the 37-year-old Buttigieg was asked later about the president's efforts to include him in the rogues' gallery that includes"SleepyCreepy Joe" ,"Leakin' Lyin' James Comey," "Pocahontas" , and"Crooked Hillary" Clinton, he told reporters that he didn't get the joke at first. In response to Buttigieg's claim that he had to Google Neuman to understand the president's insult, Mad's twitter account asked,"Who is Pete Buttigieg? Must be a generational thing.""We have a young man, Buttigieg," Trump said at a campaign rally Wednesday night."Boot-edge-edge. They say 'edge-edge.'"
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