"I'm still recovering a little bit from the experience of trying to inhabit the mind of Mike Pence," Buttigieg recently joked.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg argued on Thursday that it’s a “strategy” for Donald Trump to push the racist lie that Haitian immigrants are eating pets. “There’s even more to it than demonizing immigrants, although that’s obviously part of what he’s doing,” Buttiegieg told CNN ’s Kaitlan Collins.