{"id":86907,"date":"2019-05-12T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86907"},"modified":"2019-05-11T21:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T01:33:45","slug":"donald-trump-compares-pete-buttigieg-to-mad-magazine-cartoon-alfred-e-neuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86907","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Compares Pete Buttigieg to Mad Magazine Cartoon Alfred E. Neuman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sabo-MadpeteButtigieg1-640x480-e1557624347574.jpg\" alt=\"sabo \" \/><br \/>\nSabo strikes again<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>By: Charlie Spiering<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident Donald Trump ridiculed Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Friday, describing him as Alfred E. Neuman, the cartoon icon from Mad Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,\u201d he said when asked by Politico reporters about his thoughts on Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana who is now running for president.<\/p>\n<p>Newman was first published in the magazine in 1956 and famously appeared as a write-in candidate for president on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Newman is entirely fictional, but still gets some of the protest vote in recent presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg responded to the president, admitting that he had to Google the fictional character to figure out what the president was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be honest, I had to Google that, I guess it\u2019s a generational thing, I didn\u2019t get the reference,\u201d he told reporters on Friday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The comparison only goes so far; one is a vacuous, empty headed idiot, and the other is a cartoon. Read the rest here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/05\/10\/donald-trump-compares-pete-buttigieg-to-mad-magazine-cartoon-alfred-e-neuman\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tip of the hat to Poetrooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabo strikes again By: Charlie Spiering President Donald Trump ridiculed Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Friday, describing &hellip; <a title=\"Donald Trump Compares Pete Buttigieg to Mad Magazine Cartoon Alfred E. Neuman\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86907\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump Compares Pete Buttigieg to Mad Magazine Cartoon Alfred E. Neuman<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-link","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86917,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86907\/revisions\/86917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}