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What Now? with Trevor Noah

The Broken Promise: Democracy, the Economy & What Comes Next with Pete Buttigieg

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Has democracy unraveled in America? And if so, what can leaders on both sides of the aisle do to save it? Former Secretary of Transportation and 2020 Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg joins Trevor and Eugene in this wide-ranging discussion.

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0:00.0

A graduate of Harvard, a road scour, a naval reserve officer who deployed to Afghanistan,

0:05.1

and the mayor of a small city in Indiana.

0:07.4

Buttigieg is now the first openly LGBTQ elected official to run for president.

0:12.1

I'm running for president because I think our country is running out of time.

0:15.1

We cannot keep doing the same thing over and over and over again and expected to get better.

0:20.0

The Senate overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary.

0:25.4

He's overseeing one of the most significant investments in America's bridges, roads, and rails

0:30.5

in more than half a century.

0:31.9

What made Peter stand out was his leadership.

0:34.8

You kind of knew that there was an extraordinary potential there.

0:43.3

This is What Now with Trevor Noah. Pete Buttigieg. Do you miss being called Mayor Pete?

1:02.0

I'll always go by Mayor Pete.

1:03.3

Oh, you still go by Mayor Pete. I like that. Have you done LinkedIn?

1:06.2

I'm logged in a LinkedIn in a while. Yeah, maybe. I don't know.

1:08.9

That would be great if you had a LinkedIn.

1:10.6

I should. Maybe I do. I should check now that you mention it. I still have my while, but yeah, maybe. I don't know. That would be great if you had a LinkedIn. I should.

1:11.0

Maybe I do.

1:11.6

I don't know.

1:11.9

I should check now that you mention it.

1:13.2

I still have my old, you know, I wonder if my MySpace is still up somewhere.

1:17.1

Just like someone trying to link with you there.

1:19.1

You know what I always think about people's social media profiles is the people who don't pay attention to the world world, but pay attention to the social media, and then they're friends with you on MySpace, and they're just like, I wonder whatever happened to Pete. Like, think about it. There's people like that out there who are friends with you on like MySpace, Facebook, any of those things. You went off. You went and did things in the world. They're still friends with you there and they're like,

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