WATCH: This hilarious video puts the American ‘Buttigieg’ pronunciation debacle to rest!
We’ve got the giggles.
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know that Pete Buttigieg, Maltese-American mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is contesting for the big spot in the White House. Yup, if he wins, there will be Maltese blood running the Land of the Free!
Mayor Pete’s electoral campaign is now in full swing, but a lot of people in the US are hung up over his last name - and a very Maltese one at that. News anchors, talk show hosts, and well, practically all of America find it hard to pronounce ‘Buttigieg.’
Mayor Pete, as everyone in South Bend calls him, even posted a pronunciation guide on his Twitter bio: all together now, BOOT-edge-edge. Hilariously, this led one creative dude, Aaron Nemo, an associate producer on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert, to record an animated song that will help people remember. And it's brilliant!
Aaron mentions all the ways that people have pronounced Buttigieg, including badger-judge, boat-tea-church, bowling-jewish, bush-toe-(gargle), exaggerating the whole thing!
Mayor Pete is gaining 2020 momentum for the presidential race. His campaign is seeing large crowds coming out to meet him, big fundraising numbers, an increase in Google searches and air time. So who knows, maybe he will be sworn in after all!
Watch the hilarious video here: