Daddy Issues?
The Weird Right Wing News Argument About Daddy Trump.
Jesse Watters is the best little boy in all of MAGA because he loves his macho-man daddy president more than anyone else.
On Monday’s episode of Fox News’ “The Five,” Watters managed to kiss President Donald Trump’s butt in the creepiest way possible when he likened the president’s strengths to those of a father.
Watters’ disturbing remarks were prompted by a video Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) posted to social media over the weekend that showed the lawmaker lifting weights in the gym. While Swalwell worked out, he criticized Republicans for putting Congress on five-week summer recess a day early — a move many Democrats believe was pulled to avoid a House vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“I should be working right now,” the representative said while lifting what appeared to be 135 pounds. “I should be at the Capitol. I should be in a suit. Instead, Republicans sent us home because they would rather stand up for Donald Trump than release the Epstein files and stand up for victims.”
Instead of rebuking Swalwell’s implication that the Republican-led Congress went into recess early in the hopes that the Epstein outcry would die down while they were away, Watters decided to jingle his keys and distract from what Swalwell was saying by attacking his masculinity.
“Trump is politically jacked,” Watters said Monday. “And that’s what Swalwell doesn’t understand.”
He continued, “People respect you for doing things that are hard and lifting things that are heavy. Trump has real strength — Swalwell is trying to look strong, and that’s the difference.”
Watters’ chest pounding then took a really weird turn.
“Trump golfs. He has dad strength …You know dad strength? He doesn’t look like he’s in shape, but then he grabs you — one time my father grabbed me, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God this guy is stronger than I am!’ And I was like 18.’”
MAGA has proudly been referring to the president as “Daddy Trump” for a while now. During a Trump rally in October 2024, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson gave many people the willies when he compared Trump to a violent father and the nation to naughty children.
“And when dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now,’” Carlson said. “‘You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl ― and it has to be this way!’”
Since then, prominent conservatives like Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and disgraced actor Mel Gibson have hopped on the President Papa bandwagon.
Jane Junn, a professor of political sciences and gender and sexuality studies at the University of Southern California Dornsife College, told HuffPost earlier this year that the “Daddy Trump” trend is probably steeped in patriarchal beliefs that men should be “strong,” “tough and aggressive,” and “authoritative.”
She also said that those who embrace the awkward moniker likely want to “throw back to a traditional time where daddy was in charge and you just did what he said and everything will be OK.”
“I think the origin for his supporters is probably more [about] an authoritarian control, by a man, a single man,” Junn added.
But Daddy Trump on Tuesday may have put himself in legal jeopardy by admitting he knew one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims.
Trump told reporters earlier on Tuesday that Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre from him when she was employed at Mar-a-Lago.
National security analyst Marcy Wheeler has been among those following President Donald Trump's ongoing scandal involving a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who recruited girls under 18 for sex. On Tuesday, she posed a serious question.
"Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago?"
“He revealed there was more than one young woman poached from Mar-a-Lago to work for Epstein. Trump raged they were his girls "taken out of the spa. Hired. By him [Epstein]. In other words, gone."
“He's treating the financially-lubricated sex trafficking of women as mere employment.”
