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Pete Buttigieg TORCHES Host Over Trump Economy Spin

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller gives his take on the heated CNBC Squawk Box exchange between Pete Buttigieg and Joe Kernen over Trump’s economy, gas prices, and the war in Iran. Kernen tries to argue with weak MAGA talking points about Biden-era inflation and partisan blame, but Buttigieg pushes back so well that Kernen's co-host literally laughs at him. Tim breaks down why Buttigieg’s approach is resonating and how bad it is for the state of pro-Trump economic defenses.

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0:00.0

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0:38.0

That's so rare these days.

0:39.6

That's so often that you're doom scrolling and I like to joy scroll.

0:43.4

And that happened for me because Slayer Pete Buttigieg was on CNBC's Squawk Box.

0:51.5

If you don't know that, a show, it's a morning financial show. It's kind of like the Fox and Friends of CNBC. And, you know, it's not like Fox and Friends in the sense that it's all right wingers. There is a single person that kind of reflects the doozy view on Squawk Box. His name is Joe Kernan. He and Pete got into it on the state of the economy, the war in Iran, and it was delicious.

1:17.4

I've already on social media offered to welcome both of them to the Bullwark YouTube page

1:22.4

where hopefully they could do a longer version.

1:25.1

I want to see, I want to see like a Joe Rogan podcast length engagement between Kernan and Buttigieg.

1:33.1

Give me three hours.

1:34.1

I can host it.

1:34.9

I'll just kind of just fade into the background and let them go, just kind of direct the conversation.

1:40.0

We'll see if they take me up on that.

1:41.4

But if you have not had this joy yet, or even if you had already and just want a second

1:46.5

helping, I figured we should go through some of the highlights of Pete showing how you do it

1:51.7

when you're arguing with somebody that's trying their best to rationalize their support of Donald

1:59.5

Trump and MAGA.

2:18.6

Just really quick before we go into it, please subscribe to the feed, help us out here. We're trying to get up to 2 million subscribers. And also, like, part of the reason why I'm showing this is I've been on this, like the Democrats in this moment, Donald Trump is vulnerable. The arguments of people on his side are as weak as they've ever been. Democracy would be going into more challenging spaces.

2:23.0

It's something that I'm trying to do myself, but that I like that you need actual democratic politicians doing.

2:25.2

And so I want to, you know, give out candy to the ones who are doing it right.

2:30.9

And Pete is obviously like the prime example of us. So let's watch

2:36.5

this together. We'll play some of the highlights from Pete and Joe Kernan. I understand that.

2:41.9

And look, I'm saying this is somebody who knows what it's like to be sent to war by a U.S.

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