WATCH: The View slams Mike Pence’s joke about Buttigieg’s ‘maternity leave’

The View Slammed former Vice President Mike Pence Tuesday was a day when he mentioned a joke about Secretary Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s “maternity leave.”

Pence joked last week at Gridiron dinner, an annual event attended by journalists and politicians as well as prominent public figures.

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“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,” He stated.

“Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression,” The ex-vice president continued.

The View Hosts were not enthusiastic about the comment.

“I’m mad at you because you weren’t smart enough to think of a new joke. That’s why I’m outraged, because it was sloppy and very lazy to use a thrice-used, bad joke again,” Whoopi Goldberg commented, noting that Tucker Carlson and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R.CO) didn’t find it funny.

Joy Behar joined the conversation, adding that “besides the fact that the joke was not funny, it’s coming from someone who has a history of homophobia.”

“I also have to say that this is a very, very craven attempt to appeal to the MAGA base,” Behar claimed.

“They’ve got to get this deplorable base on their side in order to win the primary and that’s what they keep doing over and over again,” She went on. “That includes Trump, of course, the king of all of it, and also DeSantis and now Pence because he wants to run for president, and that is a pathetic situation, in my opinion.”

The White House also demanded that Pence apologize for his actions, calling it a joke “offensive and inappropriate.”

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But, Pence’s team “Called the response “faux outrage.”

“The hypocrisy is especially rich considering their own Secretary of State Antony Blinken joked that he yearned for ‘the old days’ when ‘Jews did all the work,'” Marc Short, the spokesperson for the organization, said in a statement that it was releasing this information to the media. Washington Examiner.