Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has been talked about as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential nominee.

President Donald Trump slammed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for running the agency "into the ground" following the D.C. plane crash disaster.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg fired back at Trump after being blamed for the recent plane crash in Washington, D.C.

Pete Buttigieg, former transportation secretary and former South Bend mayor, called Trump's comments during today's press briefing "despicable."

"Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch," Buttigieg wrote on X.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Trump on Thursday for his reaction to the devastating incident after Trump baselessly blamed the Biden administration’s policies for threatening air safety. Buttigieg called out the president for “lying” about the crash in a post on social media platform X.

Trump left more questions than answers in his expletive attacks on Democrats and diversity practices during Thursday's press conference.

In his first news conference since the aircraft collision over the Potomac River, President Donald Trump on Thursday implied that diversity, equity and inclusion programs could be the cause, although an investigation has only just begun into the fatal disaster.

President Trump at moments of national tragedy has always been more comfortable finding fault than providing comfort or expressing empathy.

An interview with former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem about Trump's efforts to blame the D.C. crash on DEI, his anger at facing scrutiny, and why all this bodes badly about what's to come.

Former US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has hit back at Donald Trump, branding the US president “despicable” after he attempted to blame him for this week’s deadly plane crash in Washington,