On Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC, moderator Chuck Todd had fully unqualified variety rent Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on this system to preview President Joe Biden’s upcoming state of the union handle. Throughout the pleasant dialogue, Todd requested the sympathetic softball query that why isn’t all of Biden’s accomplishments not penetrating the American public. It apparently by no means occurred to Todd that the majority of Biden’s so-called accomplishments he’s going to tout are detrimental insurance policies he’s inflicted on the American individuals.

Proper out of the gate, Todd bemoaned how Biden isn’t getting the credit score he thinks is deserved. “Look, he is obtained a variety of issues to tout,” Todd famous earlier than asking “why do you assume it has not penetrated the American public?”

Buttigieg responded that “these items do not promote themselves,” and went on to regurgitate the traditionally inaccurate speaking factors that Biden’s now former Chief of Workers spouted: 

Not too long ago the President hosted a send-off for Ron Klain the departing chief of employees and he put it in a method that I assumed was particularly shifting if you assume again in historic phrases to what it means to inherit one of many hardest conditions confronted by any President since F.D.R. Handed probably the most vital laws on our economic system in some ways since F.D.R. Whereas going through the biggest land battle in Europe since Truman, attaining the second most essential healthcare invoice since L.B.J. And an important infrastructure invoice since Eisenhower, as Ron put it.

“Yeah, that’s the factor. None of it appears to accrue to his profit these days,” Todd mentioned disappointingly. 

“Folks say that then this President has exceeded expectations many times politically and functionally in phrases what we’re getting completed,” Buttigieg replied. 

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The transcript is beneath: 

NBC’s Meet the Press
2/5/2023
10:30:30 a.m. Jap 

CHUCK TODD: Let’s go to the President’s State of the Union. Look, he is obtained a variety of issues to tout. Why do you assume it has not penetrated the American public? 

PETE BUTTIGIEG: Look, these items do not promote themselves it’s one of many causes I’m actually trying ahead to that State of the Union handle. I’ll say that there have been so many accomplishments beneath this administration it may be troublesome to listing them in a distilled method. Not too long ago the President hosted a send-off for Ron Klain the departing chief of employees and he put it in a method that I assumed was particularly shifting if you assume again in historic phrases to what it means to inherit one of many hardest conditions confronted by any President since F.D.R. Handed probably the most vital laws on our economic system in some ways since F.D.R. Whereas going through the biggest land battle in Europe since Truman, attaining the second most essential healthcare invoice since L.B.J. And an important infrastructure invoice since Eisenhower, as Ron put it.

That was only the start of the listing of accomplishments. However one of many issues that we discovered was that that is occurring concurrently with among the hardest circumstances ever. We acknowledge that. There proceed to be a variety of points People are going through daily whilst we see extraordinary financial information. 500,000 jobs simply created within the final month. 

TODD: Yeah, that’s the factor. None of it appears to accrue to his profit these days. 

BUTTIGIEG: Folks say that then this President has exceeded expectations many times politically and functionally in phrases what we’re getting completed.