Fuentes is a horrible, horrible person, no doubt. He’s not someone you really want to associate with. He’s certainly as bad as Democrats like Robert “KKK” Byrd, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. Or people like Richard Spencer, a neo-Nazi that Fuentes has associated with. So, why in the hell is Trump having dinner with this guy?
Donald Trump dined with white nationalist, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes
Former President Donald Trump hosted white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on Tuesday night, according to multiple people familiar with the event.
Fuentes, who frequently posts racist content in addition to Holocaust revisionism, was brought as a guest of rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye.
In a post to his social media site, Trump confirmed the gathering.
“This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago,” he wrote. “Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”
Really shouldn’t be having dinner with anti-Semite Kanye West, but, when it comes to Fuentes, did any of Trump’s people not look this guy up and say “this is a really bad idea, Donald”? Because it was a horrible idea. And, considering the false allegations made around Charlottesville and other times, really, really, really puts Trump in a bad light. It was a self inflicted wound, which you can bet will be brought up again and again if he wins the GOP primary. It will turn the Independents and moderate Republicans off even more
Fuentes, who was present at the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, has made a series of offensive and racist statements on his shows including that Trump was wrong to disavow white supremacy. He has been removed from YouTube and other social media sites. Trump’s dinner with Fuentes comes just one week after the former president announced he is seeking reelection, and soon after West publicly made a series of antisemitic comments that cost him millions in endorsement deals.
In a separate statement, Trump denied knowing who Fuentes was, stating that the “dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.” Both that statement and the Truth Social post did not include a denunciation of West’s or Fuentes’ recent comments.
If he doesn’t know who he’s dining with, that’s a huge problem.
Accidentally had dinner with a white supremacist while intentionally having dinner with an antisemite. Oookaaaaay https://t.co/5lzZ1ZW3yM
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) November 25, 2022
Don’t forget that Fuentes hates Jews as much as Ilhan Omar, so, yeah, a lot. Trump really needs to just stop and fade away.
