Mayor Pete On Handling Trump: "It's Almost Like 'Crazy Uncle' Management"

Sitting down with Robert Acosta for an hour-long chat for Washington Post Live, Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg says he would handle Donald Trump in a general election similar to the way you handle a 'crazy uncle.'

Via Politico:

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Thursday likened his approach to taking on President Donald Trump to dealing with a “crazy uncle.” “It’s almost like a sort of crazy uncle management,” he said. “Like, he’s there. You’re not going to disrespect his humanity. But he thinks what he thinks. There’s not much you can do about it.”

He later added that he has a “pretty dim view” of Trump’s decision to “use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.” The president was granted five draft deferments — four for college and one for bone spurs in his heel — and never served in the military.

“This is somebody who, I think it’s fairly obvious to most of us, took advantage of the fact that he was the child of a multimillionaire in order to pretend to be disabled so that somebody could go to war in his place,” Buttigieg said.

Mayor Pete was also asked if he thought Trump was racist, to which he replied, “I think so.”

“If you do racist things and say racist things, the question of whether that makes you a racist is almost academic,” Buttigieg said. “The problem with the president is that he does and says racist things and gives cover to other racists.”

Watch the discussion below.