Pete Buttigieg: We Don’t Know When Trump Will Stop Being Active in Politics But It Will Come

KIMMEL: “I mean, besides it being hurtful and damaging and inhumane and all of those things, isn’t it just dumb? I mean, aren’t people going to be very angry when they realize they’re paying another $1200 a month for health insurance?”
Buttigieg: “I would think so. Yeah. And look, that’s one of the reasons why you see right now some Republican, not a lot, but some Republicans starting to do something remarkable, which is defying this president. You’re seeing it with people I never thought you would see this from. Marjorie Taylor Greene, you know, Nancy Mace criticizing Republican leadership. In Indiana, the statehouse there, very Republican state, Republican super majority, the president of the United States personally begging them to redo the districts, and up until now, at least, doesn’t have the votes. And I think that’s really telling, because I think in the same way that before taking over this country, he took over his party, I think the way that his power is starting to collapse will be first within his party and then more broadly in the country. But here’s the thing. These Republicans are doing something that many in my party are still struggling to do, which is actually to imagine what happens next. They’re doing this because they’re thinking ahead and they are aware of something that we know as a fact is true, but have trouble picturing, which is the day will come when Donald Trump is no longer active in American politics.
(Cheering and Applause)
And we have to be ready for that day. We have to envision what comes next.”
KIMMEL: “I hope that day will come.”
Buttigieg: “We don’t know when, but it will come.”