Right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson was ridiculed on social media for comparing Donald Trump‘s potential second term as president to a father coming home to discipline his children.

Carlson made this comparison during Wednesday’s Turning Point Action rally in Duluth, Georgia.

“There has to be a point at which Dad comes home,” he said during the rally. “Yeah, that’s right. Dad comes home. And he’s p—ed. Dad is p—ed.” 

“He’s not vengeful,” he added. “He loves his children. “Disobedient as they may be, he loves them because they’re his children; they live in his house.”

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“But he’s very disappointed in their behavior, and he’s going to have to let them know,” the right-wing political commentator noted. “He’s going to have to – ‘Get to your room right now and think about what you did.'”

“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. And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie; it’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me, and you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl,'” Carlson told the crowd. 

“And it has to be this way,” he claimed. “It has to be this way ’cause it’s true.” 

“And you’re only going to get better when you take responsibility for what you did,” Carlson said. 

“That’s not said in the spirit of hate,” the commentator shared. “It’s not said in the spirit of vengeance or bigotry, far from it. It’s said in the spirit of justice, which is the purest and best thing there is, and without it, things fall.”

Carlson’s speech was soon mocked by users on the social media platform X.

“Does anyone else find this very creepy?” the user @LoriCKW asked. “Tucker Carlson is suggesting fathers need to vigorously spank their 15-year-old daughters.”

Later that afternoon, another user  wrote on the platform that Carlson’s words were ” just F-ing creepy.”

“So, now @TuckerCarlson has fantasies about ‘daddy’ spanking him,” @EdanClay stated. “He was on stage yelling s— about ‘daddy’s coming home, and he’s going to spank you!’ These people went from weird to f–king creepy in no time flat!”

In late February, Carlson was criticized for stating that Moscow is a much nicer place than any city in the United States during an interview at the World Government Summit 2024. Critics mocked his unsophisticated perceptions of Russia.

Carlson was fired from Fox News when his racist text messages were made public during a court case against Dominion Voting Systems, in which Fox paid nearly $1 billion to settle the case. 

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Alessio Atria

Article by Alessio Atria