Conservatives who’ve depicted Donald Trump as a robust “daddy” lastly whipping the nation into form have spent the previous few days expressing over-the-top fears about cities. Regardless of their so-called robust man picture, leaders on the suitable have provided fearful treatments whereas pushing lies about city crime.
Throughout the 2024 marketing campaign Republicans characterized Trump as a “daddy” who was coming to straighten out misbehaving Individuals supposedly coddled by maternal politicians like former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
In latest weeks the suitable has doubled down on this cringeworthy imagery, adopting the track lyrics “daddy’s residence” to herald Trump’s purported management on the world stage.
However now “daddy” is listening to a whole lot of crying from some tearful girls and boys.
The brand new scaredy-cat marketing campaign is supposed to supply cowl for Trump’s decision to ship federal legislation enforcement and the Nationwide Guard to a supposedly crime-ridden Washington, D.C. Republicans have ignored and denied knowledge displaying a drop in crime and as a substitute determined to fearmonger.
Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a staunch Trump ally, was maybe most consultant of this marketing campaign, mockingly exhibiting what the suitable has beforehand characterised as a “beta” mindset.
“I drive round in Washington, D.C. in my Jeep and, sure, I do drive myself. And I don’t buckle up. And the rationale why I don’t buckle up, and other people can say no matter they need to, they will elevate their eyebrows at me, once more, is due to carjacking,” Mullin told Fox News on Wednesday.
“I don’t wanna be caught in my car after I have to exit in a rush as a result of I bought a seat belt round me. And I put on my seat belt on a regular basis, however in Washington, D.C., I don’t as a result of it’s so prevalent of carjacking. And I don’t need the identical factor occur to me what’s occurred to lots of people that work on the Hill.”
Not sporting a seatbelt in D.C. is against the law and topic to fines. In reality, one of many violations that federal brokers have spent their helpful time pursuing whereas policing the nation’s capital is the failure to put on a seatbelt.
Mullins’ purported conduct additionally doesn’t make sense within the context of a carjacking, as a result of a carjacker would favor drivers go and not using a seatbelt to allow them to extra simply take management of the automobile they’re attempting to steal.
And statistics show that carjackings are down significantly in D.C. up to now two years. The town has gone from a excessive of 67.5 carjackings per 100,000 residents in 2023 to 23.8 in 2025.
Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told CNN on Wednesday that he’s so afraid of crime in D.C. that he sleeps in his workplace.
“I come from a household of public schooling. That is one of many causes I stay in my workplace at evening. However the different cause is it is too dadgum harmful, brother. It’s harmful and all people is aware of it, and the individuals are being victimized,” he defined.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott mentioned Trump’s actions in Washington are obligatory as a result of the town must be secure for his grandchildren. In its present state Scott argued Tuesday, “You’ve bought to be very cautious, you possibly can’t be out after darkish.”
Actuality examine: hundreds of individuals exit at evening in Washington, a metropolis with a vibrant nightlife and tradition.
Rep. James Comer, who chairs the Home Oversight Committee and is most well-known for obsessing over Hunter Biden’s laptop computer, escalated things on Thursday.
“We’re gonna help doing this in different cities if it really works out in Washington DC. We spend loads on our navy. Our navy has been in lots of international locations all over the world for the previous twenty years strolling the streets attempting to cut back crime. We have to deal with the massive cities in America now,” he told the conservative Newsmax community.
The 147-year previous Posse Comitatus Act restricts using federal navy personnel in implementing home coverage, and has usually been invoked by conservatives when fearmongering about Democratic presidents like Invoice Clinton and Barack Obama.
However Comer apparently believes that scary sandwich-throwing requires that the legislation be ignored.
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Trump’s allies in right-wing media are additionally within the throes of crying for “daddy” to repair the issue, with figures like Charlie Kirk, Megyn Kelly, and Ainsley Earhardt cheering the over-the-top incursion into the nation’s capital.
However the knowledge exhibits that these crybabies aren’t working in actuality. Crime is at a 30-year low in Washington and the present of pressure has squandered federal assets on mundane violations finest left to native police.
“Daddy” Trump is extra involved with distracting the general public from his connection to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scandal and downplaying the continued economic disruption occurring on his watch. His bawling youngsters on the suitable are merely providing up one other spherical of crocodile tears.
