Charlamagne Doesn’t Hold Back, Calls Out Democrats—Buttigieg Doesn’t Disagree [WATCH]

Radio host Charlamagne tha God directly criticized former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during an interview Thursday on The Breakfast Club, saying Democrats are only now acknowledging issues the public has recognized for years, as reported by The Independent Journal Review.

“My biggest problem with Democrats is it’s like everything they’re saying now, you should have been saying two, three years ago,” Charlamagne said during the interview.

“Like, we’ve been saying Democrats was cowards. So yeah, yes, y’all should have been toughened up.”

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Charlamagne referenced a comment made by former President Barack Obama at a July 11 fundraiser, where Obama urged Democrats to “just toughen up” and do “less navel-gazing” and “whining.”

Charlamagne noted that the warning came far too late and highlighted that concerns about President Joe Biden’s age were raised by the public long before Democrat officials acknowledged them.

“Jake Tapper with The Original Sin — and you read that book, and you see everybody knew that Biden was too old to run, but nobody said anything,” Charlamagne added.

“But now everybody wants to speak up.”

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He also criticized White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for now referring to herself as an “independent.” “I’m like, ‘Yo, why weren’t y’all saying this two, three years ago?’ All these things that y’all are saying, we the people had been saying,” Charlamagne said.

Buttigieg defended the Democratic Party’s policy consistency, pointing to issues like Medicaid and transportation infrastructure. He acknowledged, however, that the party needs to project more strength.

“There are a lot of things we were fighting for then that we’re fighting for now,” Buttigieg said.

“The transportation stuff, right? Sometimes we were taking hits for people thinking we were caring too much about taking care of neighborhoods that were underinvested in or hurt in the past. I believed that it was the right thing to do then. I believe it’s the right thing to do now.”

“But yeah, we have to show a level of toughness just in order to be credible,” Buttigieg added. “And in order to go up against these guys who obviously — you can fault them for all kinds of things — but they definitely project toughness.”

Earlier in the week, on July 15, Charlamagne said Democrats had shown “cowardice” by not confronting Biden sooner and said they should have informed Biden he would be a one-term president.

“It wasn’t up to him,” Charlamagne said. “So, it’s just wild to hear President Obama say that now as if Democrats haven’t been cowards for the past decade.”

President Biden remained in the race until July 2024, despite growing calls for him to step aside following a widely criticized debate performance against President Donald Trump.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson marked the one-year anniversary of Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race by sharing a 14-minute video compilation of Democrats previously asserting that Biden was mentally and physically fit for office.

The montage included clips from the March 2024 State of the Union address, where Democratic lawmakers chanted, “Four more years!”

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