'Rewarding a flasher': CNN host balks over giving attention to MAGA's latest craze
October 24, 2024
A CNN host was reluctant to discuss MAGA's latest celebration Thursday because she compared it to "rewarding a flasher."
Brianna Keilar was talking about a video starring Tucker Carlson that went viral after it was shown at a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday — and was loved by the crowd.
The video has the ex-Fox star describing Trump as the "daddy" of the country who is "disappointed" in the Americans — and who is coming home to punish them. The crowd began chanting "Daddy Don" as Trump took the stage.
While the internet erupted with comments about Carlson's "creepy" and "weird" speech, Keilar was nervous to even address it.
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"Sometimes I wonder if talking about moments like that is kind of like, I don't know, unintentionally rewarding a flasher by paying attention to them," she said.
"But at the same time, you know, I do think it raises an interesting question, which is this appeal of Trump meting out a punishment? What do you think it is?"
In the past, Trump has promised "revenge," "painful retribution" for his perceived enemies. An NPR investigation "found more than 100 times when Trump has said his rivals, critics and even private citizens should be investigated, prosecuted, put in jail or otherwise punished."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Tia Mitchell said that she was at Trump's Georgia rally on Wednesday and that the message resonated with the audience.
"So again, Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump continued to speak to a specific audience, and so the metaphor of daddy being home and disciplining a way where teenagers just speaks to kind of their world vision of this kind of traditional family that kind of part of what's baked into the MAGAsphere and Christian nationalism," Mitchell said.
She noted it also drives home the message of an "aggrieved" Trump and that he should be rewarded with another trip to the White House.
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