Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) speaks following the inauguration of President Donald Trump throughout an occasion at Capital One Area on January 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. | Supply: Justin Sullivan / Getty
In at the moment’s episode of ‘Not Like Us’ Is An Understatement, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) has been catching a whole lot of warmth lately for referring to President Donald Trump as “daddy,” which, notably, different Republicans and MAGA conservatives have completed since voters determined to let Trump get his rotten apricot-tinted butt shavings all around the Oval Workplace furnishings once more.
“When People see deportations or repatriations occur, they’re gonna be like, ‘Thanks,’” Donalds mentioned throughout an look on Fox Information final Sunday. “After they see the border closed, they’re gonna say, ‘That is what I voted for.’ After they see peace beginning to get away once more world wide, they’re gonna be like, ‘That is the soundness that we have been asking for.’”
“Daddy’s again,” he added.
Now, earlier than we get again to Donalds behaving as if he has already given Trump permission to assert him on his taxes despite the fact that he solely comes round each different Thanksgiving, the congressman has demonstrated one in every of my greatest frustrations concerning Black conservatives:
They speak white.
Very like white conservatives, when Donalds speaks on how “People” will really feel about their collective “daddy,” he’s actually simply speaking about white folks.
Don’t get me fallacious, there are actually quite a few Black People who’ve let conservatives persuade them that Hispanic immigrants are their shared enemy as a result of they’re taking the entire “Black jobs,” however the name for mass deportation — from “construct that wall” to “they’re consuming that cats and canines” — has been a white nationalist name to motion for greater than the final twenty years. Donalds is preaching to the identical Caucasian choir he let pat him on the top like he was Republicans’ pet “Black buddy” in 2023.
It’s nearly like they’re all his “daddy.”
Once more, to be honest, Donalds shouldn’t be the one baby left behind who has referred to Trump as their patriarch.
On Sunday, Rep. Lauren Boebert took to X to put up a photograph of TIME Journal’s cowl of Trump, captioning her put up: “Daddy’s house!”
Turning Level USA cofounder Charlie Kirk additionally posted a photograph of Trump on X with the caption “Dad is house.”
However it appears former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson will be the one to first seek advice from Trump as a father determine.
In October, Carlson predicted Trump would win the election and “spank” America like a misbehaving baby.
“When Dad will get house, you understand what he says? ‘You’ve been a foul lady,’” Carlson mentioned on the time. “‘You’ve been a foul little lady and also you’re getting a vigorous spanking proper now.’”
Ahh sure, Tucker Carlson, the person who complained {that a} cartoon mascot for M&Ms wasn’t “horny” sufficient, has additionally shared with us his fantasy of America as a younger faculty lady getting spanked by “daddy.”
So, Donalds isn’t the one one out right here sounding like he desires to sit down in Trump’s lap and let the president bounce him off his knee, but when he have been of the aforementioned “like us” selection, he would know that being a grown Black man who refers to an outdated white man who already has a raging white savior advanced as “daddy” is a positive technique to have Black folks pretending to not see him at any of the various cookouts he’d doubtless by no means be invited to.
Additionally — it’s simply bizarre, man.
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