Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg turned 42 on Friday. We suspect he was surprised and honored when none other than President Joe Biden decided to sing him “Happy Birthday”.
Biden was speaking at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting at the White House. The event attracts mayors from all over the country. Buttigieg, who was formerly the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, earlier in his career, was in attendance in his capacity as Transportation Secretary.
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“My wife, she has a tradition in her family … and on everybody’s birthday, you’ve got to sing ‘Happy Birthday,’” he added. “So stand up and let’s sing ‘Happy Birthday.’”
Biden and the crowd duly sang. Buttigieg, seated in the front row, stood up and shook the President’s hand.
Watch below.
📺 This is great! President Biden just led a crowd in singing “Happy Birthday” to Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg:
Biden wasn’t the only person to wish Buttigieg a happy birthday. He was also presented with a cake by staff at another meeting. A video he posted on Instagram showed him trying to think of something to wish for.
“Yesterday I would have wished for appropriations or a CR [continuing resolution], but now that we’ve banked that I can go big,” Buttigieg joked, taking a moment to think of something before blowing out his candles.
He captioned the clip, “Grateful for all the warm wishes—and the cake.”
In 2019, Democrat Buttigieg made history when he ran as an out-gay candidate for President (following in the footsteps of Fred Karger who mounted an unsuccessful bid for the GOP nomination in 2012). Hot on the heels of Republican Ron DeSantis suspending his campaign yesterday, let’s take a moment to enjoy Buttigieg recalling advice he received from former President Jimmy Carter when his own campaign began to falter.
Pete Buttigieg turns 42 today. But he already has lifetimes of stories to tell. #HBDSecretaryPete
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“My wife, she has a tradition in her family … and on everybody’s birthday, you’ve got to sing ‘Happy Birthday,’”
LOL LOL No one else’s family sings that rare song, bless Doctress Jill and Joe for introducing it to us.
Joe is so out of it that I bet Pete really is 30.
Wow. You really do have Biden derangement syndrome. You should try your “humor” over at say Breitbart or Newsmax where it would be appreciated. Echo Chamber and all.
Awe, why so mean to me? I really hope Joe and Mayor Pete got to share some chocolate chocolate chip ice cream and had a fun bike ride at Pete’s party. Although the way Joe falls off standing bikes, he might need training wheels.
Funny how Baron is always bringing up diversity, which is something he (and his political party) doesn’t really care about at all. What a lying hypocrite he is.
Happy Birthday to Pete Buttigieg, and great for the president to sing him “Happy Birthday.” The garbage person-ogre who was president from 2017-2021 would know how to sing “Happy Birthday” to someone else even if the words were on giant cue cards in front of him.
Aren’t you girls tired of your pointless tit for tat responses to each other? Seems like the same 4 people that show up in every thread to stoke fires. Grow up and give some actual thought provoking comments that aren’t the bitchy personality of their poster.
Veep for POTUS! She could do it and she’d be great. I and millions of Americans would be good with that. And we’d finally get our First Gentleman!
_________
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday pinned blame squarely on Donald Trump for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, saying the former president is “proud that women are silently suffering” without a guaranteed right to abortion.
“The previous president expressed his intentions quite clearly. And fast forward to just recently, says he’s proud of what he did,” Harris told CNN’s Laura Coates during an exclusive interview in Wisconsin, where the vice president was launching a national tour in support of reproductive rights.
She said the likely Republican nominee relishes his role in new, restrictive abortion laws that have emerged in the aftermath of the high court ruling.
“By inference, he is proud that women have been deprived of fundamental freedoms to make decisions about their own body; by inference, proud that doctors are being penalized and criminalized for providing health care, proud that women are silently suffering because they don’t have access to the health care they need,” Harris added. “So, let’s understand that the stakes are so very high.”
She’s not asking for any. But each time she speaks out, she’s clear and she is right. More Kamala! The trolls already have Joe in the grave, accompanied by thier usual viciousness, but should he go…hello Kamala!
Behind closed doors, they must be sufficiantly occupied with the task of lining up and looking at alternative Dems. DC is abuzz with an overabundance ot think tanks.
abfab, Some of my favorite Kamala quotes:
“We got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to have taken this seriously,”
“So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong.”
Powerful.
Vice President Kamala Harris, whose approval rating, “Is a 2024 problem,” according to Newsweek. She is “notably less popular than Mike Pence, Biden, Dick Cheney, and Al Gore were after the same number of days as vice president.”
Be more concerned with your approval rating, Sharon Wiseman. You do love your numbers. You’re a sicko. Go and weigh your old carcass and tell us all about your poundage.
Kamala Harris is the liberal version of Sarah Palin. When Palin saw Russia from her house, these same idiots were aghast. The brainless blue jersey cheerleading squad strikes again. I’m not falling for it, and neither is the vast majority of independent voters in this country. We have memories. You same idiots were falling over yourselves about Sarah Palin. We can rewind the tape.
And you, tranzygranny, the biggest embarrassment not only to a Queer community but to the world community. Palin has room for you up in Alaska. You might keep better up there….
I’ll pass, thanks. Not a fan of Sarah Palin. Not a fan of your left-wing version of Sarah Palin either.
“We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues…and to work together as we continue to work, operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together…we will work on this together.”
A real Abe Lincoln, that one. Continue to eat your Sarah Palin left-wing word salads and pretending to be enlightened, Abby. You’re so smart.
One or two words is all you can understand, but here goes………… You go on and on and you never really say anything. You’re a freak. We know. We get it. You’ve told the world a thousand times before, yet you keep going with more and more outrageousness…….about yourself. Waste product fits.
I think a few more transitions and you’ll come out perfect.
Well, if it’s so simplistic, refute the arguments as opposed to rolling over like the dogs you are. Snark and retreat are the only tools in your pathetic arsenal. Y’all like to talk a big game, but it’s plain as day that you can’t even back up what you believe. You’re both overgrown children.
And waste product aptly fits your copy-and-paste song lyric brain cell, Abcrabs. Your brain cells are so limited that you can only shoot diarrhea streams about song lyrics. It’s rather sad. But you’re a sad and old pathetic gay man waiting for death to arrive. I don’t envy your life.
40 more years and Democrats will think he’s old enough to be President, if they’ve overcome the homophobia that turned him into a token cabinet secretary.
FreddieW, a southern boy, still hooked on slavery, now an old man, obviously. Our token Gay Idiot. Pull yourself together. It’s not too late, southern man. Your log cabin awaits.
There’s a reason why Southern Comfort was made for slave-owning white pigs………..like you FrederiKKK. Too much pain to tamp down with out your stills. Drink up. Your memory might begin to fade. You lean on substance too much which is a dead give a way to your own foibles.
Big deal and who really cares. yet the gay community still thinks these clowns who’ve done little for America and the American people walk on water. God help us if this fiasco gets another term to screw us deeper into trhe ground that we already are. If you’re happy with a Swiss cheese of a southern border, your taxes getting to nosebleed heights, dealing with crime and some of the highest prices in years for food and fuel among other things, you need to have your heads examined. This isn’t a conservative versus a liberal thing, it’s about what’s happening under the current administrationm who’ve proved their ineptitude and incompetence dealing with all the important issues. Please if your opinion differs or don’t like my comment, that’s your right, no need to be nasty and bitter criticizing mine. The last time I woke up this was America where each of us has the right to free innocous non violent, non threatening speech, unlike russia, china or as real as socialism gets north korea.
Pete is 42. He is a Harvard/Oxford/McKinsey neoliberal. As a community we are too smart to get behind another identity politician pushing for the wealthy to get more of our wealth.
I’m overjoyed that Pete is showing America that gay people are normal people. However, Einstein said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” More neoliberalism of New Democrats isn’t going to return the focus of government back to the working poor.
Our nation’s problems are more “rich vs. poor” than right vs. left – now that the “left” of the New Democratic party are just Reaganites. How much better does the warm salty yellow trickle-down feel coming from our guys, not theirs?
At least we get the “joy” of paying for the killing of 25,000+ thousand Palestinians.
We should remember that those 3 year old Palestinian kids should have chosen to be born Israeli… just as we are told that we should have chosen to be born straight.
Let’s be, not just for ourselves, but all of humanity, even those born “human animals” beisng killed by American bombs.
I agree our problems SHOULD be about more things than just “left vs right” but the fact is we live in today’s world and as much as I would love to get back to solving problems, there’s only one party right now willing to defend our democracy and rights and without those everything else you mentioned wouldn’t matter b/c it’ll all be gone and you’d have no say otherwise to truly do anything about it.
Btw, don’t think Trump would care about the Palestinians more than Biden. He wouldn’t considering he moved our embassy just to stir up the hornets nest which is Hamas.
And Ronbo, we should also remember that this was Queerty’s way of wishing Sec Pete Buttigieg a very happy birthday. Of which you failed to take a moment to do brcause you’re always too buy with your cliche-filled lectures.
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ShaverC
“My wife, she has a tradition in her family … and on everybody’s birthday, you’ve got to sing ‘Happy Birthday,’”
LOL LOL No one else’s family sings that rare song, bless Doctress Jill and Joe for introducing it to us.
Joe is so out of it that I bet Pete really is 30.
ShaverC
*Joe is so out of it that I bet HE THINKS Pete really is 30.
Baron Wiseman
That is outrageous! Whoever heard of family members singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to a family member!?!
(Rumor has it that Joe needed the teleprompter for the lyrics.)
Chrisk
Wow. You really do have Biden derangement syndrome. You should try your “humor” over at say Breitbart or Newsmax where it would be appreciated. Echo Chamber and all.
abfab
No one sings to Shaver. He is not happy, his bithdays are not happy and there is zero joy in his life. Ditto for Sharon Wiseman.
Baron Wiseman
@Chrisk
My bad. I really shouldn’t repeat rumors.
Many of these diversity lovers love to dish it out, but can’t seem to take it.
abfab
Um, we actually CAN take it but you never seem to have anything to give. You are nothing more that a leech.
dbmcvey
Bitter little nasty conservatives. When Republicans overturn Obergefell it’s their fault.
ShaverC
Awe, why so mean to me? I really hope Joe and Mayor Pete got to share some chocolate chocolate chip ice cream and had a fun bike ride at Pete’s party. Although the way Joe falls off standing bikes, he might need training wheels.
abfab
Because you’re an annoying person. An adult child. A brat. Empty.
ShaverC
abfab & dbmcvey, Uh oh, I think you’re cranky because Uncle Joe didn’t take you out for ice cream as well.
dbmcvey
Look at Shaver playing the victim.
“Why’s everybody so mean to me?”
Because you’re a dick, Shaves.
dbmcvey
Funny how Baron is always bringing up diversity, which is something he (and his political party) doesn’t really care about at all. What a lying hypocrite he is.
ShaverC
dbmcvey, No one could be a bigger victim than you, so I don’t even try.
abfab
Then stop trying.
dbmcvey
Says the fool who was just whining about being picked on.
I don’t get upset when you and your other sock puppets target me, because I don’t care what you AHs think.
Mack
I see you and Baron Wiseass both have your head buried deep up your backside.
Mister P
Shaves is so out of it, he thinks he’s funny.
dbmcvey
True, but do you think he really “thinks?”
abfab
He didn’t get his way over the weekend. He comes here for his daily temper tantrums. No cake for you bitch.
Kangol2
He thinks he’s a laugh riot, and I don’t mean a comic version of Don the Con’s January 6, 2021 failed coup!
abfab
A decent, Gay politician creates such anger in conservitive right wing maggots, as seen above. The other rebublican vultures are circling.
abfab
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE! AND MANY MORE!!
dbmcvey
Sweet! Happy Birthday, Pete!
ZzBomb
Happy Birthday Pete.
May the coming year see that you have luck as deep as the ocean.
Cheers
LumpyPillows
Can’t imagine Trump singing to anyone except himself. Therein lies a great example of how the two men differ.
ZzBomb
Even at a funeral, Trump has to be the corpse if it gains him attention.
LumpyPillows
Trump as a corpse… The world would be a safer, saner place, for sure.
Kangol2
Happy Birthday to Pete Buttigieg, and great for the president to sing him “Happy Birthday.” The garbage person-ogre who was president from 2017-2021 would know how to sing “Happy Birthday” to someone else even if the words were on giant cue cards in front of him.
bachy
Basic kindness doesn’t appear to be in his wheelhouse.
JRamonMc
Aren’t you girls tired of your pointless tit for tat responses to each other? Seems like the same 4 people that show up in every thread to stoke fires. Grow up and give some actual thought provoking comments that aren’t the bitchy personality of their poster.
abfab
Such as yours?
LumpyPillows
They live for it.
abfab
Veep for POTUS! She could do it and she’d be great. I and millions of Americans would be good with that. And we’d finally get our First Gentleman!
_________
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday pinned blame squarely on Donald Trump for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, saying the former president is “proud that women are silently suffering” without a guaranteed right to abortion.
“The previous president expressed his intentions quite clearly. And fast forward to just recently, says he’s proud of what he did,” Harris told CNN’s Laura Coates during an exclusive interview in Wisconsin, where the vice president was launching a national tour in support of reproductive rights.
She said the likely Republican nominee relishes his role in new, restrictive abortion laws that have emerged in the aftermath of the high court ruling.
“By inference, he is proud that women have been deprived of fundamental freedoms to make decisions about their own body; by inference, proud that doctors are being penalized and criminalized for providing health care, proud that women are silently suffering because they don’t have access to the health care they need,” Harris added. “So, let’s understand that the stakes are so very high.”
bachy
The VP has the intelligence and the balls. What she doesn’t have is the support she absolutely deserves.
abfab
She’s not asking for any. But each time she speaks out, she’s clear and she is right. More Kamala! The trolls already have Joe in the grave, accompanied by thier usual viciousness, but should he go…hello Kamala!
Behind closed doors, they must be sufficiantly occupied with the task of lining up and looking at alternative Dems. DC is abuzz with an overabundance ot think tanks.
ShaverC
abfab, Some of my favorite Kamala quotes:
“We got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to have taken this seriously,”
“So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong.”
Powerful.
abfab
Tell the world about your least favorite Kamala quotes. F uck off ShaverC. You have no place at this table.
Or just tell us a few of your favorite Polish jokes. Starting with you.
Baron Wiseman
Vice President Kamala Harris, whose approval rating, “Is a 2024 problem,” according to Newsweek. She is “notably less popular than Mike Pence, Biden, Dick Cheney, and Al Gore were after the same number of days as vice president.”
abfab
Be more concerned with your approval rating, Sharon Wiseman. You do love your numbers. You’re a sicko. Go and weigh your old carcass and tell us all about your poundage.
decrans
Kamala Harris is the liberal version of Sarah Palin. When Palin saw Russia from her house, these same idiots were aghast. The brainless blue jersey cheerleading squad strikes again. I’m not falling for it, and neither is the vast majority of independent voters in this country. We have memories. You same idiots were falling over yourselves about Sarah Palin. We can rewind the tape.
abfab
And you, tranzygranny, the biggest embarrassment not only to a Queer community but to the world community. Palin has room for you up in Alaska. You might keep better up there….
decrans
I’ll pass, thanks. Not a fan of Sarah Palin. Not a fan of your left-wing version of Sarah Palin either.
“We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues…and to work together as we continue to work, operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together…we will work on this together.”
A real Abe Lincoln, that one. Continue to eat your Sarah Palin left-wing word salads and pretending to be enlightened, Abby. You’re so smart.
abfab
Waste product.
decrans
Here comes the desperate one-word responses. You besmirch the Absolutely Fabolous name. A witless pushover time and time again.
abfab
One or two words is all you can understand, but here goes………… You go on and on and you never really say anything. You’re a freak. We know. We get it. You’ve told the world a thousand times before, yet you keep going with more and more outrageousness…….about yourself. Waste product fits.
I think a few more transitions and you’ll come out perfect.
dbmcvey
abfab has more truth in his one word responses than decraps has in the paragraphs of lies he types.
decrans
Well, if it’s so simplistic, refute the arguments as opposed to rolling over like the dogs you are. Snark and retreat are the only tools in your pathetic arsenal. Y’all like to talk a big game, but it’s plain as day that you can’t even back up what you believe. You’re both overgrown children.
decrans
And waste product aptly fits your copy-and-paste song lyric brain cell, Abcrabs. Your brain cells are so limited that you can only shoot diarrhea streams about song lyrics. It’s rather sad. But you’re a sad and old pathetic gay man waiting for death to arrive. I don’t envy your life.
FreddieW
40 more years and Democrats will think he’s old enough to be President, if they’ve overcome the homophobia that turned him into a token cabinet secretary.
abfab
FreddieW, a southern boy, still hooked on slavery, now an old man, obviously. Our token Gay Idiot. Pull yourself together. It’s not too late, southern man. Your log cabin awaits.
FreddieW
Have you sobered up from the holidays, abfab? Doesn’t sound like it.
abfab
There’s a reason why Southern Comfort was made for slave-owning white pigs………..like you FrederiKKK. Too much pain to tamp down with out your stills. Drink up. Your memory might begin to fade. You lean on substance too much which is a dead give a way to your own foibles.
Stop.
FreddieW
You poor thing! I do hope that bile is just alcohol. I would hate to think it’s purely you.
abfab
Get your lotion and jerk off to your John Wayne videos. And Fred, we already know that you hate to think.
winemaker
Big deal and who really cares. yet the gay community still thinks these clowns who’ve done little for America and the American people walk on water. God help us if this fiasco gets another term to screw us deeper into trhe ground that we already are. If you’re happy with a Swiss cheese of a southern border, your taxes getting to nosebleed heights, dealing with crime and some of the highest prices in years for food and fuel among other things, you need to have your heads examined. This isn’t a conservative versus a liberal thing, it’s about what’s happening under the current administrationm who’ve proved their ineptitude and incompetence dealing with all the important issues. Please if your opinion differs or don’t like my comment, that’s your right, no need to be nasty and bitter criticizing mine. The last time I woke up this was America where each of us has the right to free innocous non violent, non threatening speech, unlike russia, china or as real as socialism gets north korea.
abfab
Some of us think YOU walk on water. Including yourself. Get a grip.
ZzBomb
If the border is Swiss cheese now and wasn’t under Trump, what changed? When Biden pretty much carried over Trump’s border policies.
I await a well thought out and crafted response in return.
ZzBomb
Also North Korea isn’t socialist. It’s an autocratic dictatorship.
abfab
Zz…..you are a breath of fresh air. Thank you for tutoring those trolls in search of tutors.
And actully winemaker, you do need to be critisized, constructively or not. Nasty and bitter….sounds like you.
Ronbo
Pete is 42. He is a Harvard/Oxford/McKinsey neoliberal. As a community we are too smart to get behind another identity politician pushing for the wealthy to get more of our wealth.
I’m overjoyed that Pete is showing America that gay people are normal people. However, Einstein said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” More neoliberalism of New Democrats isn’t going to return the focus of government back to the working poor.
Our nation’s problems are more “rich vs. poor” than right vs. left – now that the “left” of the New Democratic party are just Reaganites. How much better does the warm salty yellow trickle-down feel coming from our guys, not theirs?
At least we get the “joy” of paying for the killing of 25,000+ thousand Palestinians.
Ronbo
We should remember that those 3 year old Palestinian kids should have chosen to be born Israeli… just as we are told that we should have chosen to be born straight.
Let’s be, not just for ourselves, but all of humanity, even those born “human animals” beisng killed by American bombs.
ZzBomb
I agree our problems SHOULD be about more things than just “left vs right” but the fact is we live in today’s world and as much as I would love to get back to solving problems, there’s only one party right now willing to defend our democracy and rights and without those everything else you mentioned wouldn’t matter b/c it’ll all be gone and you’d have no say otherwise to truly do anything about it.
Btw, don’t think Trump would care about the Palestinians more than Biden. He wouldn’t considering he moved our embassy just to stir up the hornets nest which is Hamas.
abfab
And Ronbo, we should also remember that this was Queerty’s way of wishing Sec Pete Buttigieg a very happy birthday. Of which you failed to take a moment to do brcause you’re always too buy with your cliche-filled lectures.
p.s humans ARE animals.