Pete Buttigieg, the former Transportation Secretary and full-time virtue signaler, decided to open his mouth after President Trump successfully deposed the illegitimate president of Venezuela. And once again, it confirmed what we already knew: the man shouldn’t be trusted with anything more complex than a toy train set.

This time, Buttigieg took a swipe at President Trump’s successful operation to capture Venezuelan dictator and full-time cocaine dealer Nicolás Maduro. The operation, by the way, went off without a hitch. Four strategic targets were hit, zero American casualties, no loss of a single piece of military equipment, and Maduro is now sitting in an NYC jail cell with an indictment list longer than Joe Biden’s list of forgotten passwords.

But instead of applauding a flawless mission that removed a narco-tyrant indicted for everything short of jaywalking, Buttigieg dusted off the old anti-war talking points and lobbed a tired accusation: “An unpopular president – failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home – decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.”

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president – failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home – decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this…

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) January 3, 2026

Trump posts an epic video of our military’s take down of Nicolas Maduro from his presidential palace:

Let’s pause here. First, Trump’s approval ratings are cruising and the economy is rebounding like Dennis Rodman in his prime. Second, this wasn’t a war, it was a surgical operation. And third, if removing a brutal dictator who’s been starving his people and flooding U.S. streets with cocaine is now considered a negative, someone please check Pete’s moral compass — it might be held together with duct tape and NPR tote bags.

Ummm… pic.twitter.com/QPjW94Jrgv

— Sir Wayne Nooten (@WayneNooten) January 5, 2026

Buttigieg, ever the self-own machine, forgot one little detail: the internet never forgets. Within hours, a 2020 tweet resurfaced where Pete sang a very different tune. Back then, he wrote, “I stand behind Juan Guaidó and the Venezuelan people as they strive to reclaim their democracy and defend their rights.” So in 2020, Maduro was a dictator who needed to go. But in 2026, removing him is apparently a crime against humanity. Ah, the magical shape-shifting hypocrisy of Democrat politicians.

The illegitimate takeover of the Venezuelan National Assembly is further evidence that dictator Maduro will stop at nothing to consolidate his grip on power. I stand behind Juan Guaidó and the Venezuelan people as they strive to reclaim their democracy and defend their rights.

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) January 6, 2020

And the internet let him have it. Users on X tore into him like he was the last donut at a CNN staff meeting. One commenter wrote, “I always take military advice from men who wear breastfeeding bras.” Another asked, “Was Obama also ‘losing his grip on power at home,’ or was that (D)ifferent?” The roasting was non-partisan, merciless, and entirely deserved.

This you? pic.twitter.com/A6AF1QBEmZ

— Anna Khait (@Annakhait) January 4, 2026

Let’s not forget, this is the same Pete Buttigieg who couldn’t solve a supply chain crisis, let railroads crumble on his watch, and seemed more focused on chest-feeding and climate buzzwords than actually doing his job. And now he wants to critique a clean, decisive foreign policy win? Please.

Whatever you say man pic.twitter.com/iwAolXpBDR

— ScienceRespecter (@InLuvWScience) January 3, 2026

The Biden administration, during its four long years of snoozing through foreign policy, put a $25 million bounty on Maduro’s head but did absolutely nothing to collect. Trump, in less than a year back in office, got it done. And now Democrats are mad it wasn’t their team who scored the touchdown? Sorry folks, that’s not how leadership works. You don’t get points for writing checks you never cash.

What Pete Buttigieg and his fellow Democrats hate isn’t the operation — it’s that Trump succeeded where they failed. They hate that he acted decisively. They hate that he did it without dragging us into a quagmire. And most of all, they hate that he reminded Americans what competent leadership looks like.

So while Pete is busy tweeting from his moral high horse with a broken GPS, the rest of us are watching the world get a little safer under the steady hand of President Trump. Maduro is gone, America is back in control, and Pete Buttigieg is right where he belongs — in the comments section, getting ratioed by his own hypocrisy.