{"id":122856,"date":"2019-05-20T14:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122856"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:49:28","slug":"why-does-pete-buttigieg-really-remind-so-many-of-alfred-e-neuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122856","title":{"rendered":"Why does Pete Buttigieg really remind so many of Alfred E. Neuman of MAD Magazine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Compares Pete Buttigieg to Alfred E Neuman \u2013 Buttigieg Responds: \u201cWho\u201d?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by sundance<br \/>\ntheconservativetreehouse.com<\/p>\n<p>Oh gosh, this is funny.\u00a0 Politico\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/05\/10\/trump-pete-buttigieg-nickname-1317460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had a phone interview<\/a>\u00a0with President Trump where they asked him for opinion of Democrat candidate Pete Buttigieg.\u00a0 President Trump responded with a one-liner:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u2026\u201cAlfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-163642\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg?w=640\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg 476w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg?w=300 300w\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"163642\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/05\/11\/trump-compares-pete-buttigieg-to-alfred-e-neuman-buttigieg-responds-who\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"476,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"buttigieg \u2013 alfred e neuman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-neuman.jpg?w=476\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So immediately everyone starting to look at the Mad Magazine character and compare the images.\u00a0 Too funny, Pete Buttigieg\u00a0<strong>really does look like<\/strong>\u00a0Alfred E Neuman.<\/p>\n<p>Making things funnier, Buttigieg had no idea who the character was.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ouch! Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pete?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pete<\/a> Buttigieg responds to \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>\u2069 slam that he is \u201cAlfred E Neuman\u201d \u2014\u201cI had to Google that..I guess it\u2019s a generational thing.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZL11noISYL\">pic.twitter.com\/ZL11noISYL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carla \u2018Bluechecked\u2019 Marinucci (@cmarinucci) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmarinucci\/status\/1127029998928326656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-163643\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg?w=640&amp;h=482\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg?w=640&amp;h=482 640w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg?w=150&amp;h=113 150w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg?w=300&amp;h=226 300w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg 680w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"163643\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/05\/11\/trump-compares-pete-buttigieg-to-alfred-e-neuman-buttigieg-responds-who\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"680,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"buttigieg alfred e newman 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/buttigieg-alfred-e-newman-2.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/05\/11\/trump-compares-pete-buttigieg-to-alfred-e-neuman-buttigieg-responds-who\/\">https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/05\/11\/trump-compares-pete-buttigieg-to-alfred-e-neuman-buttigieg-responds-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Compares Pete Buttigieg to Alfred E Neuman \u2013 Buttigieg Responds: \u201cWho\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}