Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg tried to choose his words "carefully" when asked to comment on Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ recent attempt at attacking former President Donald Trump. Nevertheless, he ended up taking the Florida Governor to task anyway.

What Happened: The so-called "DeSantis War Room" Twitter account posted a rather odd video that observers — including Log Cabin Republicans (a GOP group that represents gays and lesbians) — have called "homophobic."

“I'm going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up shirtless bodybuilders and just get to the bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space,” Buttigieg said on CNN's Sunday show, "State of the Union."

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The video proudly likens DeSantis to movie characters like the fictional serial killer in "American Psycho" and financial criminal Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street." It also weaves in footage of random bodybuilders and Brad Pitt from "Troy" for unstated reasons.

In one instance, it seemingly pokes fun at a Trump speech from 2016. At the Republican National Convention, the then-candidate expressed sympathy for the LGBTQ community after a mass shooting occurred at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in DeSantis’s home state of Florida. The tragedy left 49 people dead.

Why It Matters: The video was released on the same day that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a website designer who refused to accept a gay couple as clients.

DeSantis remains popular among Republican primary voters, but trails Trump who manages to maintain support despite his ongoing legal troubles.

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