So CBS took a look at, God help us all, the phenomenon that is "Trump bros." Your everyday, lily-white high school students or fraternity chaps who have had it up to here (insert dramatic gesture here) with loud drunk white guys being shunned and persecuted in America these days.
"Misogyny was an issue about maybe 60, 80 years ago," said [18-year-old Jack Rowe]. "That's not an issue today. There are a lot bigger fish to fry...You know, ISIS is chopping off heads. We've got 19 trillion dollars in debt."
Trump really speaks to them, ya know? Here, let Some Guy explain it.
"You tell a joke it gets blown out of proportion. You gotta walk on eggshells. There's kind of that feeling, and Trump, he tells a joke and doesn't back down. He says things that would normally been frowned upon. At a school, a kid would get expelled. Not that it's right or wrong, but he's sort of defending a lot of the things they've been attacked for in the last five years or so."
"It's an F-U to society, who is telling us we are a bad guy because we like hooking up with girls on spring break," he added. "And they see Trump sticking up for that."
Finally, a president who will stand up for that. All righty then. That will make for a hell of a State of the Union speech, let’s give him that.
Still, it’s hard not to wonder if, like Trump himself, this entire "Trump bro" thing isn't just an elaborate put-on. For example:
Standing patiently with their arms draped over the fence at the front of the venue, wearing matching tie-dye muscle tees and baseball hats that read "TRUMP 2016, THERE WILL BE HELL TOUPEE," the two 18-year-old high school seniors had coveted spots with an unobstructed view of the man they called "Mr. Trump."
Yeah, um … between the tie-dye "muscle tees" and overt toupee jokes, the line between sincerity and parody is very, very blurry right now. Many of us still expect to wake up one morning to the announcement that Trump and several million people on a secret Republican email list dreamed this up as a nationwide prank. Hasn't happened yet, but it still could.
Nobody really talks like this unless they're pranking us, right?