Trump threatens to ‘fire’ Don Jr as he seems by speaker telephone at fractious Turning Point convention | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump bizarrely threatened to “fire” Don Jr., after his son put him on speaker telephone at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest convention.

“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,’” Don Jr. stated on the Phoenix, Arizona, convention on Sunday, earlier than including, “Mr President!”

Video confirmed the right-wing crowd erupt into cheers because 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 previously 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.

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The weird feedback elicited tense “Ohs” from the viewers earlier than the president instructed everybody to “go have a good time.”

Tensions had been excessive on the annual AmericaFest conference, throughout which a number of the largest names in conservative media took turns roasting one another whereas on stage, together with 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 concerning the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September.

“These people are frauds, and they are grifters, and they do not deserve your time,” Shapiro raged, noting he had a “moral obligation to call out” Owens’ conspiracy theories.

He claimed that Owens was spouting “absolutely baseless trash implicating everyone from French intelligence to Mossad to members of TPUSA in Charlie’s murder, or a cover-up in that murder.”

Meanwhile, others used their time on stage to roast Shapiro, with former Trump advisor Steve Bannon calling him “a cancer.”

During Trump Jr.’s speech, he proclaimed that the Republican Party was a factor of the previous, together with his dad main the “America First Party” and “Make America Great Again Party.”

“Midterms are coming around the corner and make no mistake, the Democrat Party wants to do whatever they possibly can to shut this movement down. Not just the Democrats. The RINOs,” Trump Jr. stated.

“You see the manufactured attacks on JD [Vance]myself, my father — anyone who understands that this isn’t the Republican Party anymore. It’s the America First Party. It’s the Make America Great Again Party. And we are not going back!” he continued.

The remarks drew a substantial quantity of applause and cheers from the group, adopted by a “USA! USA! USA!” chant.

While utilizing the speech to slam Democrats, Trump Jr. additionally took the chance to criticize “weak” Republicans “who just capitulated to the D.C. swamp.”

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“Some of the loudest voices, even in the Republican party, demanded we bring in tens of thousands of unvetted Afghan refugees. For years they turned Minnesota into little Somalia,” Trump Jr. stated, referring to a Somali refugee resettlement program that Trump suspended.

The program, which helped revitalize whole neighborhoods in Minneapolis, was capped by Trump earlier this yr. Under the order, the annual refugee admissions are capped at 7,500 – a lower of over 90 p.c from final yr’s ceiling of 125,000 and the bottom quantity for the reason that program started in 1980.

“How’s that working out for anyone? I keep hearing diversity is our strength. I’m not so sure,” Trump Jr. added to cheers.