Tucker Carlson says former President Trump is like an angry father who needs to give “a vigorous spanking” to his enemies.
The right-wing former Fox News host told a frenzied Trump campaign rally that the ex-president was “pissed” and ready to get physical with wayward Americans who oppose him.
“Dad’s home and he’s pissed,” Carlson told the roaring crowd Wednesday night. “You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking, right now.”
Carlson said Trump is no different from a father who must command obedience from his teenage daughters.
“If you allow your hormone-addled 15-year-old daughter to, like, slam the door of her bedroom and give you the finger, you’re going to get more of it,” said the conservative host, who has four grown children. “It’s not good for you and it’s not good for them. No!”
Carlson said Trump’s return to the White House would hurt his enemies and political opponents, not himself, echoing Trump’s vows to exact retribution if he regains power.
“No, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you,’” Carlson said at the rally north of Atlanta in the battleground state of Georgia. “I’m not going to lie. It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.”
Carlson whipped the crowd into a frenzy by reassuring them that liberal elites are a “bizarre minority” in American politics, while Trump’s MAGA movement is a “gentle, tolerant” political grouping.
He warned that a Trump win would result in a “big middle finger wagging” at liberal Democrats, whom he branded “the worst people in the English-speaking world.”
Many in the crowd of 10,000 chanted “Daddy’s home!” when Trump spoke later in the evening, suggesting they approve of the harsh, paternalistic image Carlson presented.
The rally took place in the metro Atlanta area where Trump dramatically underperformed in 2020 when he narrowly lost the Peach State to President Biden.
With national polls virtually tied, Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris are again battling for Georgia and six other battleground states that will likely determine the winner of the White House.
Polling averages suggest Trump has a narrow lead in Georgia and other Sun Belt swing seats while Harris leads by an equally narrow margin in the Rust Belt so-called blue wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.