Rachel Kurzius
It was only a week ago that a youngster named Connor copped to starting a fire during protests outside the Deploraball, a pro-Trump inaugural party held at the National Press Club.
Why? “Because I felt like it and because I’m just saying … screw our president!” he said, in words that I’ve returned to more than once in the ensuing week.
Who is this mysterious pre-teen? How did he get so in touch with his feelings? What gave him the gumption to correct Fox News protest correspondent Griff Jenkins not once, but twice, in a series of seconds while on live television? When we live in a culture full of people who deny starting the fire, how did he nail the mixture of modesty and braggadocio required to pull off “I actually kinda started this fire”?
Well, improvisation may be in his blood. TMZ reports that Connor is the son of Drew Carey, the American actor and game show host.
While TMZ spotted Carey around the protest area that night, he didn’t appear to be demonstrating so much as wandering around. We don’t know if he was aware Connor was in the thick of it then, but he sure did after the interview went viral.
Like so many of the other protesters in the past week, Connor faced some consequences for his actions. “We’re told Drew and Connor’s mom were upset about how he expressed himself to the reporter, and talked to him about his language,” says TMZ, noting that the kid was in “hot water.”
In what can only be seen as retaliation against the Carey clan, Trump stole the rules from Who’s Line Is It Anyway? for his presidency—”where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.”
