‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever seen’: Donalds, Ingraham lose it over Democrats asking crowd to throw ‘balls of yarn’

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds and Fox News’ Laura Ingraham broke into laughter Friday on the outlet’s “The Ingraham Angle” after the host played a clip of Democrats at a summit suggesting supporters throw “balls of yarn.”

Youth-driven advocacy organization Voters of Tomorrow held their 2025 summit on Friday, with lawmakers like Democrat Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Democrat California Rep. Ro Khanna speaking as guests. While discussing the Democrats’ push to motivate voters ahead of the midterms, Ingraham played a clip showing two women standing at a podium while someone said that if supporters liked “bonding” and “throwing yarn,” they should head for the breakout session.

“Oh my god,” Ingraham said while laughing. “I just want you to know, Congressman — ”

“That’s not real!” Donalds responded.

In the clip played by Fox News, an announcer was heard instructing those who liked to “throw balls of yarn” to head to the “back” of the room, adding, “if you don’t want to throw balls of yarn and bond, that’s OK.”

“It has to be fake,” Ingraham said. “I wish I had a ball of yarn because I would throw it at the camera right now just to be goofy. But at this point you just have to walk out of the room and say, I’ve got to switch parties. This is so embarrassing. Trump is so fun and has such a, you know, infectious spirit for the country, even if you don’t agree with all his policies, it just makes politics fun again. What is this? I don’t even know what it is.”

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Donalds weighed in.

“If you want to know why the Democrats are losing young men, that’s why. There ain’t a young man in America today that wants to be throwing yarn in the back. I’m just sorry,” Donalds said. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, Laura. But why should we be shocked? This is the same party that lied to us and said that Joe Biden was capable of doing his job. And we all know he was not.”

Ingraham told the Florida lawmaker that the summit had required each person “to show a valid photo ID to get into” the event. Donalds called out the hypocrisy of their voting policies.

“Look, again, rules for thee, not for them,” Donalds said. “This is the craziest thing. If they actually believed in common sense, I truly believe they would stand a chance for the future. But if they continue to go down as foolishness, you need to show an ID to get into their summit. But in California, you don’t need to show an ID to vote.”

“It’s this type of idiocy, which is why the Democrats are losing Americans more and more. Just look at their approval ratings, the lowest they’ve ever been in the modern era,” Donalds added. “They’re going to continue to fall behind. I think in the midterm elections, I say let them continue these summits. We’ll go ahead and win the House and Senate majorities in the midterms. We will continue to work with President Trump to make America not just great again, but better than it’s ever been.”

Democrats have long rallied against voter identification laws, pushing back against them in recent months since Trump signed an executive order in March requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. In addition to the summit, Democrats notably required proof of identity for “security screening” at the 2024 Democrat National Convention, despite lawmakers  opposing voter ID laws.