Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) stirred up some controversy with some unsettling remarks during a Fox News segment, enthusiastically predicting public approval for Trump\u2019s forthcoming policies. \u201cWhen Americans see deportations or repatriations happen, they\u2019re gonna be like, \u2018Thank you!\u2019 When they see the border closed, they\u2019re gonna say, \u2018This is what I voted for,\u201d Donalds explained. \u201cWhen they see peace starting to break out again around the world, they\u2019re gonna be like, \u2018This is the stability that we were asking for.\u2019 Daddy\u2019s back! And that\u2019s what you\u2019re going to see.\u201d The trend of using the paternal term continued with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who tweeted, \u201cDaddy\u2019s home!!\u201d alongside an image of Trump on TIME magazine. Charlie Kirk, founder of the right-wing Turning Point USA, also embraced this narrative, posting, \u201cDad is home,\u201d next to Trump\u2019s official portrait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MAGA rapper Tom McDonald and comedian Roseanne Barr joined to release a track titled \u201cDaddy\u2019s Home,\u201d where they chant, \u201cWe won, you mad, it\u2019s done, too bad, boo-hoo, so sad, now your daddy\u2019s home.\u201d Kid Rock also tapped into this rhetoric at a pre-inauguration concert, roaring to his audience, \u201cCheck the stats, stop throwin\u2019 stones! Straighten up, sucker, \u2018cuz Daddy\u2019s home!\u201d Criticism of the language was immediate and severe. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and a former NAACP president, criticized the use of \u2018daddy\u2019 to describe the president. Chavis declared that Donald\u2019s comment was highly inappropriate and wreaked of submissiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaddy is not home; Donald Trump is not our daddy. He\u2019s the president of the United States. No matter who\u2019s in the White House, they\u2019re not daddy,\u201d Chavis remarked with a decisive rebuke of the congressman. \u201cThis shows another bending of the knee, another kissing of the ring when people need to be objective. Black people, in particular, should never stoop to being submissive to power,\u201d he said. Journalist Ahmed Baba also responded to the trend with alarm and embarrassment. \u201cNo amount of money or power is worth going on national television and calling Donald Trump \u2018Daddy.\u2019 I would spontaneously combust from embarrassment. I could never show my face in public again. I would exile myself in the Himalayas; this is flabbergasting,\u201d Baba commented. David Ryan Miller, an associate professor at American University, joined in the critique, noting that Donald\u2019s\u2019comment contradicts the alpha male image promoted by Trump\u2019s supporters. \u201cDon\u2019t all of the Trumpists aspire to be alpha males? Is there anything more beta than referring to another man as \u2018daddy\u2019?\u201d Miller questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) stirred up some controversy with some unsettling remarks during a Fox News segment, enthusiastically predicting public approval for Trump\u2019s forthcoming policies. \u201cWhen Americans see deportations or repatriations happen, they\u2019re gonna be like, \u2018Thank you!\u2019 When they see the border closed, they\u2019re gonna say, \u2018This is what I voted for,\u201d Donalds explained. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,760,1315],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-rep-byron-donalds","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}