President Donald Trump bizarrely threatened to “fire” Don Jr., after his son put him on speaker phone at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference.
Don Jr. said at the Phoenix, Arizona, conference on Sunday, “I wanted to call in a little guest. He may not be here today, but I wanted to make sure he had a chance to say ‘hi’”, before adding, “Mr President!”
According to Independent, video showed the right-wing crowd erupt into cheers as the president greeted them, saying, “Oh, I wanna be with you. But I’ll be with you soon, and I just wanna say that nobody did more for me than Charlie, and there’s nobody better than Erika, and you are the greatest people on Earth.”
After thanking his MAGA base for voting for him in the past election, the elder Trump added, “I just wanted to thank you all, and I hope my son’s doing a good job representing me; otherwise, I’ll have to say ‘You’re fired, Don. You’re fired.’”
“So thank you very much and have a great day. I hope Don makes a great speech. If he doesn’t make a great speech, let me know about it, I’ll give him hell,” the president added.
The bizarre comments elicited tense “Ohs” from the audience before the president told everyone to “go have a good time.”
Tensions had been high at the annual AmericaFest convention, during which some of the biggest names in conservative media took turns roasting each other while on stage, including Ben Shapiro, who tore into Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens, amongst others.
Shapiro’s outburst was in response to Owens’ pushing of conspiracy theories about the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September.
