During a recent appearance on “The Breakfast Club,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fl.) got into a heated spat with the show’s co-hosts, arguing about Vice President Kamala’s role in the Biden-Harris Administration’s inflation disaster and causing the co-hosts went berserk and it devolved into a fiery, contentious exchange.
Rep. Donalds, provoking the fight, said, “I would argue we’re not really thriving right now. This inflation, which by the way was brought to us by Kamala Harris, has really slowed people down from being able to excel.” Responding, the host, Charlamagne Tha God, fired back, “By Kamala? She’s vice president. There’s still a president.” Donalds, responding to the attempt to deflect, said, “Oh Charlamagne.” He continued”She broke the tie that started this inflation that has hurt so many people in our country.”
Freaking out, guest host Angela Rye snapped that Rep. Donalds’s argument is “not true.” Firing back, Donalds snapped, “You sure you want to go there?” Then, as Rye shouted over him, Donalds pulled a packet of “facts” from the jacket of his suit and, referencing it, noted that “massive inflation” was a predicted consequence of the American Rescue Plan. He added, “That’s what happened.” Then, building on that, he commented on how inflation and its effects are what is ravaging America, saying, “The problem we have in our economy today is that prices have gone up massively, wages adjusted for inflation is down, people’s pocketbooks are hurting.”
After a bit more of a spat, during which Donalds gave an analogy as to why voting for Kamala is a bad idea, Rye responded by snapping, “I’m not going to do this, this morning.” Donalds said, after she backed away, “Because I’m bringing facts…so now you don’t want to do it anymore? C’mon Angela, that’s not right. I want to have a fact-based conversation.”
As might be expected, people online loved how Rep. Donalds destroyed the hosts with his packet of facts. One commenter, for example, on a clip of the exchange, said, “Oh look, it a ‘Battle of the wits with the witless.’ For starters, anyone who calls themselves “Da god” thinks way too high of himself. Yet another POSER with a modicum of talent to be stupid. @ByronDonalds is SO FAR OVER and ABOVE their intellect.”
Another commenter noted that it makes sense that Donalds could torch the co-hosts of the program, saying, “Byron Donalds has a degree in Finance and worked as a bank credit analyst, so he has a good foundation to discuss economic policies. A lot of people misunderstand how qualified immunity works, as the woman in the video did. She got smoked by Donalds because she’s ill-informed.”
Other commenters roasted the co-hosts, particularly Rye, the one who said she didn’t want to have a further conversation once she was obviously beaten by Donalds, for not being interesting in learning the details and instead just pushing nonsense. One such person said, “Certain dems need to learn to read the fine print. She’s not even trying to learn or grow smh.”
Similarly, Charlie Kirk praised Donalds for his performance and for bringing facts to decimate the co-hosts, saying, “This clip is incredible. Byron Donalds just dropped a BOMB on the set of the Breakfast Club. When challenged by the hosts that Kamala isn’t the cause of our inflation, Byron pulls out the receipts.” Watch Donalds here:
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