Pete Buttigieg Nails The Telling Reason Behind Trump's 'Old F.U.'

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has argued that Donald Trump flipping the bird and mouthing the words “fuck you” to a heckling-Ford auto worker, TJ Sabula, is expected behavior from the president.

During a talk at the Detroit Auto Show on Wednesday, Buttigieg was asked about the incident that took place during Trump’s visit to a Ford factory in nearby Dearborn, Michigan.

“President Trump did literally what I believe he’s been doing figuratively for some time, which is give autoworkers the finger,” Buttigieg told Detroit Free Press reporter Liam Rappleye.

“Look, he’s been a union buster, he has presided over the loss of manufacturing jobs in this country and then when somebody sees someone as powerful as him come into their workplace, he gives them the old F.U.”

Video shared by TMZ on Tuesday shows the exchange between Trump and Sabula, who called the president a “pedophile protector” in a nod to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his administration’s handling of files linked to the late convicted sex offender.

Sabula, who has since been suspended from his job, told The Washington Post that he had “no regrets whatsoever” about heckling the president. The United Auto Workers union said it would defend Sabula following the suspension.

Buttigieg said Trump’s reaction to the heckling is, “in some ways, just in character for him.”

“And, obviously, my sympathies are with the worker and not the president,” he concluded.