Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently slammed President Donald Trump’s corrupt administration and the masked brutality of his immigration enforcement agents in a Monday conversation with Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Randall Woodfin.

Buttigieg said, “If you want policy to change, if you want this White House to take care of you, actually it’s surprisingly easy. Any one of you ought to try this: Take a million dollars, donate it to the ballroom that they’re building in the East Wing.”

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“Take another million dollars; I assume we all have a couple more lying around, right?” he continued. “Put it in the fund for that crypto company. Take another million dollars. Last time I checked, that is the entrance fee, not the membership, but just the initiation fee for a membership at Mar-a-Lago. And that’s all you’ve got to do to start getting your calls returned by this White House.”

“Now, for those of us who don’t happen to have a few million dollars lying around to be able to do something like that, then it’s a problem, right? But that’s what we’ve been reduced to,” he added.

Regarding the administration’s mass deportation campaign, Buttigieg said, “A lot of people thought they were voting for a government that would find someone who was dangerous, who was a violent criminal, who had convictions, and deport them, not somebody who has been in the country for years raising children, paying taxes, often opening a business.”

Criticizing masked ICE officers and their extrajudicial killings of U.S. citizens, Buttigieg said, “It’s not too much to ask that if we are going to give somebody life-or-death powers walking the streets of an American city, that they’d be expected to show their face.”

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