Transportation Secretary “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg has shown us before how utterly arrogant and out-of-touch he can be. Earlier this month he opined about electric vehicles and said, “I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.” That doesn’t sound elitist, Pete, not at all. 

See:

Pete Buttigieg's Arrogant Condescension: Compares Americans' Gas Vehicles to Landline Phones

But in a seeming bid to outdo his own arrogance, Mayor Pete took to the airwaves of MSNBC Sunday to proclaim that Washington, D.C. is safe—super safe—and that he can walk his dog unmolested to the Capitol. He went on to say, “You couldn’t do that when we all got here!” as if to imply that somehow D.C. was safer now than it was when Biden came into a office, a provably false assertion.

There’s a bit of a problem with his claim (bolding theirs):

DC saw its deadliest year in more than two decades, with 274 people killed and a homicide rate that makes it among the deadliest cities in the country. Violent crime also spiked nearly 40 percent in the nation’s capital, driven largely by a surge of armed robberies and carjackings, many of them perpetrated by kids. The city reported more than 950 carjackings in 2023, and shocking news coverage about teen carjacking rings rattled residents and people who worked there.

Oops. Don't tell that to Buttigieg:

BUTTIGIEG (who has a constant security detail): "I can safely walk my dog to the Capitol today in a way that you couldn't do when we all got here!"

Last year, D.C. had its deadliest year in 20+ years and saw the largest violent crime spike of any major U.S. city. pic.twitter.com/Jreo3W1Hsj

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 7, 2024

But Buttigieg would have you believe it's the right-wing media that's the problem, not the reality on the ground:

We need to talk about the reality here and again there is a lot of funding and a lot of energy going into telling a different story, especially on ideological news outlets and online. 

But the the simple facts and the simple reality are right here, staring us in the face, including the fact that I can safely walk my dog to the Capitol today in a way that you couldn't do when when we all got here. 

That statement to me sums up the entire approach of Joe Biden and his administration toward the American people—do not trust your eyes, do not trust your experiences, trust what we tell you. They whine incessantly about how their messaging is the problem, or that the media is failing to tell everyone just how wonderful life is under Mumbles, or that we the people just aren't smart enough to recognize their brilliance. 

It's almost funny to hear Pete say, "The simple facts and the simple reality are right here, staring us in the face." Yes, that's true, and here's a fact for you, Mayor: "...no other city has experienced a crime surge — or the accompanying national scrutiny about its meaning — like the nation’s capital has."

A recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll showed that crime is the fourth-highest concern among voters and that only 40 percent of respondents approved of President Biden’s handling of crime and violence.

But at least Pete can walk his dog safely. Not so for everyone:

When he made the comments on Sunday, there was a quadruple shooting around six miles southwest of the Capitol building, Fox 5 reported. And just days before, a woman was caught in crossfire in southeast D.C. but was not injured. 

When Buttigieg rose from obscurity and came onto the scene with his 2020 presidential campaign, he portrayed himself as an aw-shucks good guy who cared about the regular people. However, with recent comments like these, he's taken off the mask and revealed himself as another snobbish Washington elitist who doesn't care what you're experiencing—just so long as he's able to amble along the Potomac with his security detail.