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Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, has marked the arrival of the New Year by posting a new photo of the couple with their twins on social media.
The accompanying caption read, “2021 brought with it many challenges, but it also gave us a lot to be grateful for. #HappyNewYear, friends. Here’s to a peaceful and joyful 2022!”
The photo shows Chasten and Pete holding twins Penelope and Joseph (nicknamed ‘Gus’).
2021 was certainly a very eventful year for the couple. Not only did Pete Buttigieg get a cabinet role in the White House as Secretary of Transportation, but the men adopted their newborn kids at the start of September.
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Of course, besides the challenges any first-time parent encounters (including rushing one of their kids to hospital when he fell ill at Halloween), there’s been the ongoing Covid pandemic and associated supply chain problems for the Biden administration to deal with.
On Twitter, the picture has prompted over 75k likes and a similar number on Instagram. Many praised the image.
The Biden White House is historic, beautiful, kind and progressive. More of this in 2022 and beyond. America needs us all to be strong and caring.
— Dees Bees (@digweeg) January 1, 2022
Just one of many White House photos in their future, I’m sure!
— 🐝Sue Ann Rawlins ✈️🚅🚐 (@SueAnnRawlins) January 1, 2022
Some even posted their own family photos.
Happy New Year, from our family to yours! ❤️🌈 pic.twitter.com/2C7df8JEax
— Scott Hadland, MD (@DrScottHadland) January 1, 2022
It goes by too fast, a cliché but true! My two sets of twins are now in college!! Enjoy those beautiful babies—twins are the absolute BEST! 💙💗💗💙 pic.twitter.com/ehXj71dBs5
— Kristine Kenyon (@kristine_kenyon) January 1, 2022
This wasn’t the only family photo the Buttigiegs shared over the holiday. They both posted a festive one on December 25th to wish people a merry Christmas.
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/Q1NweqP9zv
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) December 25, 2021
Terrycloth
Love both of these men. Much happiness .rather read about these 2 than the 2 Andy’s Cohen and Anderson who have babies. To have babies
WSnyder
Take Chasten and Pete then compare to Matt Cawthon, Marjorie Taylor-Greene or Lauren Boebert . Which is normal? Has Family Values? Patriotic American?
ingyaom
Nice to see a holiday post from a government official without automatic weapons.
Openminded
Aww, you should know the Secret Service wouldn’t let them bring ’em in.
Kangol2
Well, neither Pete Buttigieg nor Chasten Buttigieg married a woman, like Madison Cawthorn did, after having been introduced to her by a suspected Russian spy or cut out he met at a Russian “casino” (which apparently was nowhere near where he claimed it was) and then divorced her after eight months!
So tell me again, who is making a mockery of the Christian’s so-called sacred vow of marriage?
Fahd
Buttigieg would make a nice replacement for Harris as Biden´s 2024 running mate.
nunya
Why just because he’s gay or because he has the same oral skills/qualifications of Harris?
Fahd
@Nunya – I think he’s a better orator than Harris, actually. He’s also a better campaigner. I’m also not a fan of Harris’ baggage, even though Buttigieg has his own. Why not an openly gay family man as Vice-President?
James Hart
I kind of see Chasten as kind of a loser, so it was smart of him to get Pete to have children with him so that Pete doesn’t leave him down the line. It kind of cements Pete’s feet down. This is a tried and true method of keeping someone with you. It reminds me of old movies when the woman purposely gets pregnant in order to trap the man.
Kangol2
What a hateful, sexist response. People with children, including same-sex couples, divorce all the time, and who are you to call Chasten Buttigieg, whom I assume you don’t know and who hasn’t done anything to merit that epithet, a “kind of loser.” Seriously?
Cam
Yeah because he accidentally adopted two kids.