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Getting 'Not Weird' In Georgia

‘Dad’ Trump Giving ‘Bad Little Girl’ a ‘Vigorous Spanking’

Russia loving Fox News exile Tucker Carlson launched a deranged rant Wednesday likening Donald Trump to “Dad,” who is going to give a “vigorous spanking” to a “bad little girl.”

Speaking before Trump at a rally in Duluth, Georgia, Carlson compared a Trump victory in next month’s presidential election to when “Dad comes home,” prompting a delirious ovation from the staunchly MAGA crowd.

Carlson, in his winding and idiosyncratic tangent, posited America as a misbehaving child and Trump the patriarchal savior needed to spank her.

“If you allow your 2-year-old to smear the contents of his diapers on the wall of your living room and you do nothing about it, if you allow your 14-year-old to light a joint at the breakfast table, if you allow your hormone addled 15-year-old daughter to slam the door of her bedroom and give you the finger, you’re gonna get more of it and those kids are going to wind up in rehab,” the firebrand talk show host told the crowd. “It’s not good for you and it’s not good for them. No, there has to be a point at which Dad comes home.”

Carlson, who has three adult daughters, said, when “Dad” Trump comes home, “he’s pissed” but “not vengeful” and “loves his children, disobedient as they may be.” He then said the father figure would need to let the metaphorical child know “he’s very disappointed in their behavior.”

And here is where things came perilously close to the creepy borders where Humbert Humbert and fascist coded rhetoric meet.

“When Dad gets home, you know what he says?” Tucker asked. “‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking.”

Carlson noted this spanking, in the words of the imagined progenitor administering it, would “‘hurt me more than it hurts you. I’m not going to lie. It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.’”

When Trump came on stage later in the event, the faithful MAGA flock shouted “Daddy’s home” and “Daddy Don.”

The metaphor never quite resolved to a place that explained what a “vigorous spanking” of America by “Dad” Trump would look like in practice.

Tucker Carlson’s bizarre speech at a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday left many stunned social media users questioning the former Fox News host's message.

“'Daddy’s coming home,' says Tucker Carlson. This is really creepy. I am not sure what is happening in the U.S. but it has reached a whole new level of weird. The world should be concerned,” Canadian Jill Davis, a retired newspaper editor, wrote on X.

“This is f---ing weird,” James Singer, a rapid response adviser for the Harris-Walz campaign wrote in a social media post.

Chris Jackson, a local party chair in Tennessee and Democratic strategist wrote: “These people are absolutely sick.”

"Tucker thinks daddy government needs to come in and control your life, because you’re not capable of making your own decisions," wrote the anti-Trump conservative group The Lincoln Project. "If you’re a coward like Tucker you might love iron-fisted tyrants like Putin and Trump, but here in America we don’t lick anyone’s boots."