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Trump Nicknames Buttigieg Alfred E. Neuman. Buttigieg Says Who? Mad Magazine Mocks Him Mercilessly.

On Friday, President Donald Trump fired off a deathless nickname for South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, referring to him as Mad magazine icon Alfred E. Neuman, setting off a chain of events that included Buttigieg protesting he didn’t know what to whom Trump was referring and culminating in Mad Magazine hilariously mocking Buttigieg.

Trump’s characterization of Buttigieg came during an interview with Politico in which he was asked what he thought of Buttigieg and joked, “Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States.”

Later on Friday in San Francisco, Buttigieg was queried about Trump’s remarks. Buttigieg acted as though he had never heard of the Mad Magazine icon, simultaneously mocking Trump for his age. He said, “I’ll be honest. I had to Google that. I guess it’s just a generational thing. I didn’t get the reference. It’s kind of funny, I guess. But he’s also the president of the United States and I’m surprised he’s not spending more time trying to salvage this China deal.”

Mad Magazine took no prisoners in their response:

Mad Magazine even changed its Twitter profile photo to this:

Prior to the exchange over Trump nicknaming Buttigieg, Trump had spoken at a Florida rally last week, where he took some shots at the Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination, saying, “You got a choice between Sleepy Joe and Crazy Bernie. And I’ll take any of them. Let’s just pick somebody, please, and let’s start this thing. Let’s start it. We have a young man, Buttigieg. Boot-edge-edge. They say ‘edge-edge.’ He’s got a great chance. He’ll be great. He’ll be great representing us against President Xi of China. That’ll be great. I want to be in that room. I want to watch that one.”

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