'Boot-EDGE-EDGE': Trump tries to pronounce 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg's name at Florida rally

President Donald Trump offered an over-the-top pronunciation of South Bend, Indiana, mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's name.“We have a young man, Buttigieg,” Trump said in a speech on Wednesday. “Boot-EDGE-EDGE. They say 'EDGE-EDGE.'”After getting through the pronunciation of his name, Trump went on to downplay Buttigieg's foreign-policy experience in his speech.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.President Donald Trump offered an over-the-top pronunciation of South Bend, Indiana, mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's name during a rally in Panama City Beach, Florida on Wednesday.“We have a young man, Buttigieg,” Trump said in his speech. “Boot-EDGE-EDGE. They say 'EDGE-EDGE.'”Read more: Pete Buttigieg is running for president in 2020. Here's everything we know about the candidate and how he stacks up against the competition.Tweet Embed: //twitter.com/mims/statuses/1126284232668655619？ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw .@PeteButtigieg getting name-checked by President Trump at his #MAGA rally tonight. (No nickname, yet.) pic.twitter.com/nAiSD9WfpdButtigieg says his last name is pronounced “BOOT-edge-edge,” however, his husband, Chasten, uses the phoenetic pronouncer “buddha-judge” or “boot-a-judge.”Buttigieg's name has confounded other celebrities — media mogul Oprah Winfrey's playful nickname for the 2020 candidate is “Buttabeep, Buttaboop.”Buttigieg says he's used to the confusion: “Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me ”Mayor Pete,“ he wrote in a Medium post in 2016. ”My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else.“After getting through the pronunciation of his name, Trump went on to downplay Buttigieg's foreign-policy experience in his speech.”He's got a great chance doesn't he,“ Trump said. ”He'll be great, he'll be great. Representing us against President Xi of China. That'll be great, that'll be great. I want to be in that room, I want to watch that one.Prior to becoming mayor, Buttigieg was a US Navy intelligence officer, graduated from Oxford University with a degree in politics, worked in a multinational consulting firm, and can speak seven languages.