Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hammered President Donald Trump on Sunday over his political action committee’s recent effort to use images from the dignified transfer of American service members killed in action to rake in cash, telling CNN that the president was clearly no longer fit for office.
“Just this week, we saw campaign fundraising materials being put out, emails where the president’s committee, the president’s political operation, was raising money off of images of him at a dignified transfer,” Buttigieg told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America’s war dead, he is unfit to be the commander in chief.”
Held earlier this month, the dignified transfer ceremony marked the return of the bodies of six U.S. service members killed in Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. Trump controversially attended the event wearing a baseball cap, one that appears identical to one the president’s political operation sells on its website for $55.
Trump was not only widely condemned for not removing his hat during the solemn event, but also for his campaign’s subsequent use of the moment in fundraising appeals.
“Take your hat off, you disgusting little man,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote in a social media post when footage of Trump at the event sporting the baseball cap first aired.
Buttigieg: “The president’s political operation was raising money off images at a dignified transfer. Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America’s war dead, he is… pic.twitter.com/OXmLsBYLFe — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026
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