"A new article by The New York Times profiling Nick Fuentes revealed that the Trump administration refused to comment on the record out of fear of attacks from the 27-year-old white nationalist's followers. Fuentes has a conflicted history with President Donald Trump, initially loudly cheerleading his 2016 campaign and infamously joining the president and Kanye West for dinner at Mar-a-Lago in November 2022 for what was reportedly a warm conversation but then more recently attacking the president for not being extreme enough."
"The report by Robert Draper describes how other right-wing influencers viewed Fuentes as a mosquito-like interloper mosquito-like interloper whose lifeblood was attention annoying but a problem that would flitter off into oblivion on his own if he were ignored. Instead, wrote Draper, Fuentes seemed to be growing in influence during Trump's second term: But today an entirely different consensus has emerged on the right."
"There is now growing alarm among leading conservatives about Mr. Fuentes, who routinely tests the cultlike devotion of his young male fans by savaging their patriarchal figure, President Trump, for not being right-wing enough. In the process, he has emerged as one of the loudest voices on the right to turn on the president. Among Fuentes' gripes with Trump are the president's stances on the war in Gaza, the Epstein files,"
Nick Fuentes has developed a conflicted relationship with President Donald Trump, from vociferous support in 2016 and a reported warm 2022 Mar-a-Lago dinner to later criticism for insufficient extremism. Right-wing influencers initially dismissed him as a mosquito-like interloper fueled by attention, but his influence appears to have grown during Trump's second term. Tens or hundreds of thousands of alienated young male followers known as Groypers now amplify his anti-Israel, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender and anti-civil-rights messaging. He routinely tests his fans by attacking Trump over Gaza, the Epstein files and proposed visa extensions, even as he has yet to prove decisive influence on American politics.
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