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The president-elect's son is getting roasted for believing a ridiculous post that claimed "Pete Buttigieg will leave his post as Transportation Secretary having spent $7.5 BILLION to build 8 EV charging stations."
Even X's community notes can't save Donald Trump Jr. now.
The president-elect's son is getting roasted on the site, formerly known as Twitter, for believing a ridiculous post that claimed "Pete Buttigieg will leave his post as Transportation Secretary having spent $7.5 BILLION to build 8 EV charging stations."
"His legacy will be squandering billions on something nobody wants, while millions struggle to afford the things they need," it read.
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Despite the post not providing evidence for its claims, Trump ran with news, hastily taking a shot at "woke" initiatives in his reply: "Does not seem like a great return on investment... but hey he checked a woke box so it's totally worth it."
This prompted Buttigieg himself to hit back, sharply responding by telling Trump: "The tweet you quoted is false."
As Buttigieg pointed out, not only has the federal government not spent nearly that much on electric vehicle charging stations, but it has constructed far more than just eight single stations. He also noted that the money to construct the stations doesn't come from the federal government at all, but rather the states.
"To start with, $7.5B has not been spent, nor anything like that. That's the entire program budget for the NEVI program, which is to help build out a national charging network by 2030," Buttigieg wrote. "Secondly, there are chargers now operational in nine states (which does not mea 9 chargers, to be clear). These are only the first handful though. Most are to be built in the 2nd half of the decade. Third, in this program the chargers are built by the states, not the federal government."
Buttigieg's takedown of Trump was so succinct, his replies were soon after linked below Trump's post by X's Community Notes fact-checking feature.
