The Clinton Global Initiative University’s annual meeting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee was held Saturday. I know. I didn’t realize such a thing existed, either. Hillary shared the stage with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. During their conversation, she called him a trailblazer and Mayor Pete got all excited about that. He feigned humility, though, because that’s what Pete does. No word on whether an SUV dropped him off outside the venue so he could ride a bike to the entrance.

Hillary praised Buttigieg for everything but his job performance and specific professional success. The first thing she talked about was his biography.

“When you read about your biography, your accomplishments, you’re often described as a trailblazer. You are the first openly gay cabinet member, you’re the youngest person to ever hold the office of Secretary of Transportation, you’re one of the youngest people to make a serious bid for the presidency, so there’s no doubt that along the way being the first often requires knocking down some barriers, some misconceptions,” Clinton said of Buttigieg.

She went on to call him “courageous” for his decision to come out, and asked him what he would tell others grappling with the same situation.

“Yeah, I mean, again, I’m humbled to have a word like ‘trailblazer’ used when I’m sitting next to you and knowing all the cracks you put in that glass ceiling,” Buttigieg responded.

But I am mindful of how things changed for me when I was able to come forward and realize that it was time to be who I was and let the consequences be what they might,” he added, before going on to detail his decision.

She’s obsessed with his sexuality, not talking about his accomplishments unless being gay is considered an accomplishment. Buttigieg served in the military during “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Clinton administration policy that removed the official ban on gay people serving in the military, though a statutory ban continued. In 2010 Congress voted to repeal the policy and Obama signed the legislation. It officially ended on September 20, 2011.

What we see from Buttigieg is that he promotes himself using his sexuality. He is the first openly gay person to run for the Democrat nomination for president. He’s an openly gay member of the Biden administration, though he can’t claim to be the first gay member of a presidential administration. That goes to Ric Grenell, a Republican and the Ambassador to Germany during the Trump administration. Pete was bold enough to go from being the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana to see himself as president. He won Iowa during the Democrat primary season but nothing else. Then he dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden and the rest is history. Now he is failing spectacularly as the first openly gay transportation secretary.

So, the slobbering between Pete and Hillary is cringeworthy. The only election (s) Hillary ever won was her run for senator in New York. That was her reward for standing by her man during impeachment, though she said on national television that she wasn’t a stand-by-her-man kind of woman. Turns out, she was. Anything for power.

The Global Clinton Initiative event had more than 780 students registered to attend. It was the first GCI meeting in person since 2018 because of the pandemic. The audience was comprised of students from 92 countries and 42 states. Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and others were there, too. It’s a three-day event in which students begin work on activism projects that they can continue in their home states.

Apparently, Buttigieg was the biggest name they could get from the world of elected officials.

It sounds as though the grift is alive and well for the Clintons. It’s not clear, at least to me, why they linked up with Vanderbilt University.

CGI, founded by Bill Clinton in 2007, has supported more than 11,800 students in more than 160 countries with $4.5 million in funding. The goal is for students to commit to projects to help make communities better and then grow those projects.

Pete brought up the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment as he talked to Hillary. He insisted the federal government was on the scene in the first few hours, despite what he called an alternative narrative. He said the Biden administration was wrongly criticized. People who “are trying to create problems instead of solving them” were behind the criticism. Hillary piped up that she knows a lot about being criticized. Hillary, the Queen of Victims, rides again.

After her weekend in Nashville, Hillary traveled to Abu Dhabi for the 2023 Forbes 30/50 Summit. That is where she celebrated International Women’s Day on Wednesday. Women’s Wear Daily reports she was wearing “one of her signature power suits.” No surprise there. She wore a black pantsuit.

Clinton was joined on stage by other pioneering women in their fields, including tennis player Billie Jean King, The Honest Company founder Jessica Alba, lifestyle entrepreneur Ayesha Curry, feminist author and women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem and Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska. Forbes 30/50 Summit, which runs through Friday, is an event that brings together leaders from the worlds of policy, business, and NGOs to build relationships with each other.

Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski moderated a conversation with Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, and Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska on gender parity. Hillary played the victim once again.

When it comes to being the only woman in the room, Sec. Clinton knows the territory well. “Too often, it’s a lonely time when you’re a woman who is in a position of having to speak up or make a point in an unfriendly atmosphere,” she said.

Ugh. Her tune never changes.