Pete Buttigieg, former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Presidential candidate, and current Secretary of Transportation, has revealed his preferred form of commuting across Washington D.C.
He's a biker, y'all!
Michael Stratford, an education reporter for Politico, tweeted a video of Buttigieg biking through Navy Yard in downtown Washington.
And Secretary Buttigieg's husband, Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, wasted no time in throwing shade at his spouse.
Did you forget to pick up milk on the way home Pete?
He immediately had people laughing.
Bikeshare programs, which are fairly new to the USA (the very first community bicycle share showed up in Portland, Oregon in 1994 but did not receive government attention or funding until the early 2010s) are one of the many types of programs Secretary Buttigieg is tasked with overseeing in the Department of Transportation.
Buttigieg using one of his own programs received some attention as a hopeful sign the Biden administration would focus on further public transit options.
But alas, there were still no groceries.
As one astute Tweeter posted:
"I didn't know I needed the "spouses of cabinet members drag them for not stopping at Safeway" Twitter, but there you are."
We wish Pete and Chasten all the best in their new home in Washington and hope that Pete remembers to hit up Trader Joe's next time.
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