DONALD Trump mocked Democratic contender Pete Buttigieg saying “whoever the hell that is” after the former Mayor’s surprise Iowa victory.
Buttigieg, 38, was belittled by Trump at the Opportunity Now summit for disadvantaged communities in North Carolina on Friday evening.
“It turned out to be Pete Buttigieg,” the president said. “Whoever the hell that is? Mayor Pete.”
“Somebody explain that one to me. Have you ever seen anything so crazy?” he added, before deriding his rival party’s healthcare policies.
“[Democrats] can’t count simple votes but they want to fix your healthcare system,” he told the amused crowd.
Trump blasted Buttigieg after he, and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, both declared themselves the winners after the Iowa caucus.
The state couldn’t confirm a winner during the first voting contest in the Democratic presidential primary after the failure of their vote-counting app.
Buttigieg and Sanders were extremely close in the unofficial vote tallies but the Indiana politician said he was the victor first.
The margin between Buttigieg’s win was extremely slim at 0.1 percent and he essentially tied with Sanders at 564 votes to 562.
It would appear the ex-mayor used this unconfirmed success to further his campaign ahead of the next New Hampshire contest.
“The Democrats don’t know what they hell they’re doing,” Trump jibed. “The only thing they didn’t check was to see if the app worked. It didn’t. It all fried.'”
But Trump didn’t reserve all his ire for Mayor Pete after he sauntered into the venue serenaded by Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to be an American.”
The “impeachment hoax” was also top of his agenda at the Charlotte gathering after the Senate acquitted him of all charges – including abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
“Now that is a thing of the past. Now they have a failed impeachment hoax,” he said. “They can put that on their resume. That doesn’t go good on a resume.
“That is a failed hoax. Every one of them has to put it on their resume,” he added, after becoming the third US president to be impeached by House Democrats.
The Donald appeared to be in jovial form as he thanked one attendee for donning his MAGA hat, saying: “Thank you for putting on that beautiful hat. I love that hat.”
In an unexpected twist, he also described “powerful people, big people” weeping in the Oval Office he still inhabits post-impeachment.
“You see them start to cry — tough people,” Trump claimed. “They have not cried since they were a baby.
“And some of them never cried at all even when they were a baby and they start to cry when they enter the Oval Office.”
Trump seemed to be positively jubilant during his lively speech after he fired several officials who testified against him this week.
EU ambassador Gordon Sondland and decorated solider Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman were given their marching orders today.
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