Joe Rogan slaps Pete Buttigieg over grumbling about white construction workers, says diversity hiring leads to ‘disasters’

Popular podcast host Joe Rogan slammed Pete Buttigieg after the transport secretary complained there were too many white people working in the construction industry, suggesting that diversity hiring could lead to “disasters”.

Buttigieg last week focused on alleged racial inequality on construction sites during an appearance at the National League of Counties conference.

“We’ve heard a lot of stories from past generations of infrastructure where you’ve got a neighborhood, often a colorful neighborhood that finally sees the project come to them,” he explained.

“But everyone in the hard hats on this project looks like, you know, — doing well-paying jobs — they don’t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood,” Buttigieg confirmed.

Buttigieg didn’t mention the Ohio train derailment while speaking at a conference this morning, but he did find the time to say there were a lot of white people working on the construction. pic.twitter.com/q4WNcq10h9

– Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 13, 2023

RELATED: A Train Derailed in Ohio Releases Toxic Chemicals into the Air, So Naturally Pete Buttigieg Should Focus on White Construction Workers

Joe Rogan blasts Buttigieg over racially charged comments

Joe Rogan responded to Buttigieg’s comments and focused on this month’s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, an environmental disaster that released toxic chemicals into the air, on the land, and in that community’s water.

“Do you know it [Buttigieg] He gave a speech that day about how many white people work on construction sites? Rogan asked guest Bridget Vitassi.

“As these construction sites are being created in these communities, people in the community can benefit from it.”

Buttigieg’s comment, Rogan said, “shows a profound lack of understanding of skilled labor.”

“Like, you have to hire people who are really good at it, and if they’re not in that community, you have to hire them from outside of that community,” he explained.

“That’s why these unions are important, and that’s why it’s important to look if you see what happens when you have unskilled labor and unskilled people working on buildings, you have bad disasters.”

Joe Rogan on Pete Buttigieg’s comments about white construction workers: ‘Shows a profound lack of understanding’ pic.twitter.com/ZEieL3i4bN

– The Post Millennial (PostMillennial) February 17, 2023

RELATED: Joe Rogan praises Kayleigh McEnany as the ‘best ever’ White House press secretary: ‘That lady was a killer’

Rogan: Railroad is a colossal failure

Rogan went on to describe the Ohio train derailment as a “fiasco” for the Department of Transportation.

Buttigieg’s response – or lack of response – has led to criticism on the website Both sides From the political corridor and calls for his resignation.

The Minister of Transport was ridiculed not only for the comments about the white construction workers themselves, but the fact that he ignored a train derailment during the same appearance.

Tucker Carlson interviews a resident of East Palestine who photographed the rainbow-polluted water near her home

“You bottled it, you labeled it, you dated it. So DeWine and EPA, here’s the bottle of water they can drink while they force us to go to the store and buy… https://t.co/ysGiNvhj04 pic.twitter.com/AVwV2QZovw

– Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) February 17, 2023

The Daily Mail reported that Buttigieg “took ten days to say anything in response to the incident and even after that seemed to shift some of the blame onto the Trump administration.”

When he finally spoke out about the toxic train exit, his words made things infinitely worse. Here he downplays it as just one of his many aberrations.

Buttigieg: “Although this terrible situation has received a great deal of attention, there are approximately 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing.”
pic.twitter.com/q51ytsBb4f

– Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 16, 2023

If you need proof of Rogan’s claim that assorted appointments can lead to “absurd disasters,” one need only look to Pete Buttigieg, a man who was specially hired into a role in which he had no experience or knowledge, based on his sexual orientation.

He’s one of Biden’s many diverse administrative staff, and he’s been an absolute disaster.