During his recent remarks at the Gridiron Dinner, Pence delivered a speech full of jokes about several politicians from both sides of the political aisle. In one of those jokes, Pence mentioned Buttigieg taking “maternity leave” amid thousands of canceled flights and a supply chain crisis in October 2021.

Pence joked:

 

President Biden will probably run but, if not, there’s Pete Buttigieg, who’s an old Indiana friend. When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months maternity leave, whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways.

Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets post-partum depression. The reason I know him is that he was mayor when I was governor. Pete was so popular in Indiana he recently moved to Michigan.

However, some Democrats, including Buttigieg’s husband Chasten, immediately accused the former vice president of making “misogynistic” or “homophobic” remarks.