and famous boy detective.

(upbeat music)

First things first, a lot of people are asking,

how do you pronounce this guy's name?

It's pronounced Pete, okay?

It's like peaches, but you just stop, all right?

Pee, that's it.

Oh, and as for his last name,

we're still figuring that one out.

- Pete Buttigeg, Buttiget, Buttigeg.

- [Female Anchor] South Bend Mayor Pete Buttige, Buttigeg,

I always say this wrong.

- [Male Anchor] Buttigeg.

- [Female Anchor] Buttijeg.

- [Male Anchor] Indiana Mayor Pete Bugeteg.

- Buttijeg.

- [Male Anchor] Buttigig.

- Buttigig?

- [Male Anchor] Mayor Pete Buttedgedge.

- [Male Anchor] Pete Buttegeg, edge edge.

- On Pete Buttigieg.

- Peter Buttag, the mayor of Indianapolis.

- [Male Reporter] Best way to pronounce your last name?

(laughs)

- Buttigieg, but around South Bend,

they just call me Mayor Pete and that's fine with me.

- Oh thank God, Mayor Pete.

We'll take Mayor Pete, we'll take Mayor Pete.

Yeah, because people are really struggling with this one.

It's not Buttiedge, it's not Buttijay,

and it's definitely not Buttag.

(audience laughs)

But now that we're on the same page on how to say his name,

what has he done?

- The guy who's only 37, Pete Buttigieg,

boasts an impressive resume.

First elected mayor of his hometown at age 29,

a Harvard educated Rhodes scholar,

as well as a Lieutenant in the Navy reserve.

- [Male Anchor] Took an unpaid seven month leave

during his mayoral term for a deployment to Afghanistan.

- [Female Anchor] Not only the first openly gay

Presidential candidate, he's also a newlywed.

- [Female Anchor] Would be a President of firsts.

The first to be elected in his 30s, the first millennial,

the first openly gay Commander in Chief,

and the first Mayor.

- This is the only chance you'll ever get to vote

for a Maltese American, left handed, Episcopalian,

gay war veteran, mayor, millennial.

(audience laughs)

- Okay, wait.

Wait, wait, wait.

Maltese American?

Are you guys telling me this guy is part little dog?

(audience laughs)

Because if that's true,

he is gonna win every white person's vote in this country.

White people love them little ass dogs.

(audience laughs)

Love them!

But seriously though, I can see why people are impressed

by Buttigieg, right?

He has such a unique bio.

He's a veteran, a Harvard graduate and a Rhodes scholar

who's openly gay and also so young that if he served

two terms as President, when he came out,

he would still only be 46.

Yeah, plus he's a concert pianist

and speaks seven languages, including Norwegian,

which he learned just so that he could read Norwegian books.

(audience laughs)

Compare that to America's current President,

who has read zero books and is fluent in zero languages.

Now if you're watching this, going,

"Trevor, why are you only showing us the positive things

"about Pete Buttigieg?"

Because that's all we could find, all right?

(audience laughs)

No, I'm being serious.

There's no dirt on this guy, like nothing.

Usually candidates have some skeletons somewhere,

but even his skeletons are singing his praises.

"He gave me calcium for my bones."

(audience laughs)

He's the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana

and host of Nathan For You.

He did a Fox Hall, he did a Fox Town Hall on Sunday

and he showed that visiting Fox doesn't have to mean

that you endorse them.

- You know, a lot of folks in my party were critical of me

for even doing this with Fox News.

I mean, when you got Tucker Carlson saying that immigrants

make America dirty, when you've got Laura Ingram comparing

detention center with children in cages to summer camps,

then there is a reason why anybody has to swallow hard

and think twice before participating

in this media ecosystem.

But I also believe that there are a lot of Americans

who my party can't blame if they are ignoring our message

'cause they will never hear it

if we don't go on and talk about it.

I hope you'll join me in making sure that that next era

is better than any that we've had so far.

(audience claps and cheers)

- Thank you Mayor, and thank you -

wow, a standing ovation.

- Wow, standing ovation.

Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News,

trashed their most popular anchors

and then got a standing ovation at the end.

That is amazing!

(audience cheers)

That is amazing!

Because if someone came to your house

and told you how ugly your kids were,

you'd probably be like, "Get the hell out of here."

You wouldn't be like, (claps)

"Someone had to say it.

"You got a big ass head Billy, you got a big ass head.

"Someone had to say it."

(audience laughs)

And it wasn't just the audience.

Some reporters on Fox News actually credited Buttigieg

for coming onto their network.

But the kids with the big ass heads,

they weren't as happy.

- Mayor Pete, who desperately needs a re-Boot-i-gieg.

Now when he wasn't pushing for tax increases

or lobbing lame cheap shots, he was trying to pass off

political pablum as some type of high minded oratory.

Maybe we should call him Pope Pete, because don't you love

how he - because he attends church, we're supposed

to treat him as the be all and end all moral authority

or the arbiter of who is and who is not

operating in good faith.

- Okay?

(audience laughs)

I get that Lura Ingram is trying to diss Pete,

but I don't know if she achieved that by calling him Pope.

(audience laughs)

People like The Pope.

It's not a great diss.

It's like going, "You know this guy Steve is always

"walking around being a dick to everyone,

"let's call him Big Dick Steve.

"That'll show him.

"Everyone will know what a big throbbing dick he has -

"I mean, he is."

Pete Buttigieg, democratic candidate,

mayor of South Bend, and real life Boss Baby.

(audience laughs)

Over the weekend, he did an interview Axios on HBO,

and one thing he said took the reporter

a little by surprise.

- If you were to win the nomination,

they'll say you're too young, too liberal, too gay

to be Commander in Chief.

You are young, you are liberal, you are gay.

How will you respond?

- People will elect the person

who will make the best President.

And we have had excellent Presidents who have been young.

We have had excellent Presidents who have been liberal.

I would imagine we've probably had excellent Presidents

who were gay, we just didn't know which ones.

- You believe that we've had a gay Commander in Chief?

- I mean, statistically, it's almost certain.

- Like in your reading of history,

do you believe you know who they were?

- My gay-dar doesn't even work that well in the present,

let alone retroactively.

(audience and Trevor laughs)

- Oh man.

That was such a great response.

I love how the journalist was like, "who?"

(Trevor stammers)

It's so funny that the journalist thinks

because Buttigieg is gay,

he automatically knows who else is gay.

Like gay people can even recognize each other

across time, yeah?

It's the same way when I tell people I'm from Africa,

some people are like, "oh my God, you're from Africa.

"Do you know Mufasa?"

I'm like, "No, you idiot.

"We went to different high schools, come on."

(audience laughs)

Also, Buttigieg is a better man than me

'cause you realize he could have said any President is gay

and that guy would've believed him.

Yeah, he could have been like,

"Well, Thomas Jefferson was totally gay."

Guy would be like, "What, how can you tell?"

He'd be like, "Oh I can tell."

(audience laughs)

Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana

and kid who always asks for more homework

is getting attention for what he's saying in his ads.

- Pete Buttiegieg has a new kind of position or an ad

this weekend that was airing in Iowa

about education, listen.

- I believe we should move to make college

affordable for everyone.

There are some voices saying, "Well that doesn't count

"unless you go even further, unless it's free,

"even for the kids of millionaires."

But I only wanna make promises that we can keep.

- [Female Anchor] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes,

a Bernie Sanders supporter,

slamming the new Iowa front runner, tweeting,

"This is a GOP talking point

"used to dismantle public systems

"and it's sad to see a Dem candidate adopt it."

- Ooh, Pete, you in trouble.

(audience laughs)

This is an interesting one.

Pete Buttigieg says that he supports free public college,

but it shouldn't apply to rich people's kids.

And in response, rich people said,

"What the (beep) is a public college?"

(audience laughs)

"Is that like a public toilet?

"I think I've heard of those."

No, but jokes aside, this ad is getting

a lot of backlash, right?

Because Buttigieg has basically drawn criticism

from the progressive wing of his party,

because they argue, if the government provides a service,

the service should be available

to all of its citizens, right?

It's the same way a public library doesn't ask

how rich you are before they let you in to masturbate.

It's a public library, everyone can masturbate,

that's what it's there for.

(audience laughs)

Now, despite the backlash, Buttigieg's campaign

is still steadily on the rise.

The major change from the last debate

is the rise of Pete Buttigieg, all right?

Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and the only adult

Michael Jackson would be into.

Over the past few weeks, he has surged

from the middle of the pack to take the lead

in Iowa and New Hampshire.

So now, between Buttigieg, Biden, Warren and Bernie,

this has become a four way race.

And if you include Corey Booker, it's still a four way race.

(audience laughs)

So with Buttigieg rising in the polls,

tonight the moderators asked him something

a lot of people are wondering,

why should a teenage mayor from South Bend, Indiana

become President of the United States?

- Mayor Buttigieg, let's talk about your record

as a candidate.

Why should Democrats take the risk of betting on you?