Chris Hayes told Tucker Carlson to “get some therapy” after the former Fox News host used an incredibly icky analogy to argue for Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
At a rally for the Republican nominee on Wednesday, Carlson compared Trump to a father who decides to give his “naughty little girl” a “strong spanking” to get his house in order. “There has to be a time when dad comes home,” Carlson said.
“First of all, get some therapy,” Hayes said Thursday on his MSNBC show, cupping his hands over his mouth and whispering his sing-song words of advice.
“Second, this isn’t just some creepy fantasy of a disgraced TV personality with mommy issues that you can see from space or one of those weird right-wing podcasts,” he continued. “He said that on a national stage as part of the Republican presidential campaign. Warm-up for a man who was found liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers after he defamed the woman who said Donald Trump raped her in a locker room.
“The Republican Party is now very explicitly waging a campaign of male supremacy. Trump is your father.”
“And he is ready to put all the nasty women, as he calls them, in their place,” he added.
Both Trump And Carlson have a well-documented history of creating creepy, misogynistic and perverse comments about women. Carlson, who stirred up hatred during his tenure at Fox News, once described women as “extremely primitive” and “like dogs.”
Trump, facing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race, has repeatedly launched racist and sexist attacks on the Democrat, questioning her intelligence and her racial identity.
The conservative network parted ways with Carlson last year after settling a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million over his dishonest coverage of the 2020 election.
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Carlson now has a show on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and last month brought on a Nazi apologist as a guest.