Pete Buttigieg, former transportation secretary and former South Bend mayor, called Trump's comments during today's press briefing "despicable."

President Donald Trump slammed former Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg after a deadly collision between a helicopter and a plane near Reagan National Airport.

President Donald Trump slammed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for running the agency "into the ground" following the D.C. plane crash disaster.

Pete Buttigieg was less than thrilled when President Donald Trump called him out Thursday during a news conference.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Trump on Thursday for his reaction to the devastating incident after Trump baselessly blamed the Biden administration’s policies for threatening air safety. Buttigieg called out the president for “lying” about the crash in a post on social media platform X.

Pete Buttigieg is looking into a potential Senate run in 2026 in Michigan, which was won by President Donald Trump in 2024.

In his first news conference since the aircraft collision over the Potomac River, President Donald Trump on Thursday implied that diversity, equity and inclusion programs could be the cause, although an investigation has only just begun into the fatal disaster.

Trump said he didn't know what caused the crash but "we have some very strong opinions and ideas."

Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump for a news conference Thursday in which he said that his predecessors and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night’s fatal collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called President Donald Trump “despicable” after he blamed Buttigieg for Wednesday night’s collision between a commercial flight and a helicopter over Washington,

President Donald Trump began his White House briefing with a moment of silence and a prayer for the victims of Wednesday's crash at Reagan National Airport.