Pete Buttigieg Has A Gallows Curiosity About Tucker Carlson
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Pete Buttigieg Has a "Morbid Curiosity" About Tucker Carlson's "Very Specific" Gay Sex Questions
A conversation about the birds and the bees is always a bit awkward, but most especially if it’s between former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Buttigieg turned down Carlson’s invitation to speak about “very specific” questions about gay sex while speaking to journalist Kara Swisher for a live taping of the podcast On with Kara Swisher at the University of Michigan last week.
“First of all, I do not think I want to discuss anything with Tucker Carlson,” Buttigieg said in response to a question from Swisher about Carlson’s recent comments. “But I cannot think of a topic I would like to discuss less with Tucker Carlson than that. Even though I will admit some level of morbid curiosity on what the hell he thinks … actually no.”
Buttigieg’s comments come only a few weeks after Carlson, during an episode of his podcast The Tucker Carlson Show, called the former secretary a “fake gay guy” and said that he has some “very specific questions about gay sex” that he’d like to ask to prove that his sexuality.
“I suppose it’s a sign of progress that their idea of a conspiracy is that I’m actually secretly straight,” Buttigieg continued. “We are through the looking glass now.” Swisher had her own advice on what Buttigieg could have said.
“Do you know what you have to say?” she asked the politician. “You have to say ‘Tucker, I’m not interested.’”
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Swisher’s sit down with Buttigieg encompassed a wide range of topics, including if he plans to run for president in 2028 — “I don’t know,” he responded. “It’s 2025!” — and whether he’d endorse New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani in the upcoming election.
“I’m not getting formally involved in the New York City mayor’s race, but between those choices you laid out, it’s not close,” he said. “I think he has been absolutely right to be relentlessly focused on affordability.”
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Buttigieg is one of many prominent Democrats who is considered a potential pick for the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee, alongside California Governor Gavin Newsom, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 2024 candidate Kamala Harris.
Buttigieg has made headlines several times in the past few months, both for his own comments, as well as for what other Democrats have said about him. In July, the former transportation secretary said that there were “serious fairness issues” regarding trans athletes competing in women’s sports divisions while appearing on the news program Morning Edition. A few weeks later, Buttigieg doubled down on his comments while speaking on Substack Live, and added that the fate of trans athletes “should be handled by communities and by sports leagues, not politicians.”
Earlier this month, in her memoir 107 Days, Harris said that she had considered Buttigieg for vice president on the 2024 ticket, but reconsidered whether America was ready for the pair.
Buttigieg, Harris wrote, “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man [...] But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she wrote in her memoir. “Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”
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