I’m not even sure where to begin here. 

Today at lunch I was out with a friend. It just so happened that my little brother was at the same restaurant (I’m 26, he’s 17 for reference) with a group of his friends. My brother is not a Trump supporter persay but he loves being a jerk to people and where we live outside Portland, the number one way to get under people’s skin is to talk about Trump. 

My brother thinks that Jussie Smollet allegedly staging the attack on himself is one of the funniest things to happen in a long time. I will save my feelings but I don’t think it’s funny no matter what happened. My brothers latest thing is saying “This is MAGA country” instead of saying hello, goodbye or thank you.  So at the restaurant  he was seated sort of fatty corner to us and every time the server would approach his table and leave he’d say “this is MAGA country.”

I heard him say it maybe 5 times and then I lost it. I got up and told him that he had to shut the fuck up or I was going to kick his ass. I sat down and he screamed at me “hey sis, this is MAGA country!” I got up and screamed in his face that I never wanted to hear those words come out of his mouth ever again and I warned him. He said it again and i just left paid my bill she left because I couldn’t take it anymore.

I’m so furious that he would do this to me but my parents are mad at me saying that me “attacking” him in a public space on encouraged him and is counter to how they are dealing with him which is to ignore him until he grows out of it. In light of what they said, am i the asshole here?