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Trump Nicknames Buttigieg Alfred E. Neuman. Buttigieg Says Who? Mad Magazine Mocks Him Mercilessly.

Hank Berrien

On Friday, President Donald Trump fired off a deathless nickname for South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, referring to him as Mad magazine icon Alfred E. Neuman, setting off a chain of events that included Buttigieg protesting he didn’t know what to whom Trump was referring and culminating in Mad Magazine hilariously mocking Buttigieg.

Trump’s characterization of Buttigieg came during an interview with Politico in which he was asked what he thought of Buttigieg and joked, “Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States.”

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