Trump confusingly tweets he 'can live' with Buttigieg as president

Donald Trump.
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Did former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg just pick up an endorsement from ... President Trump?

The short answer is likely no, but a lot of folks were befuddled by a tweet Trump sent Wednesday, which seemed to indicate he doesn't think losing to Buttigieg would be the end of the world.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.