Report: Trump Praised Extremist Nick Fuentes At Mar-A-Lago Dinner

Donald Trump this week praised his dinner visitor Nick Fuentes, probably the most distinguished younger right-wing extremists within the nation, in accordance with a report Friday in The New York Instances.

The previous president reportedly introduced that he preferred Fuentes after listening to him describe himself as a member of Trump’s base who preferred when Trump went off the cuff throughout speeches.

“He will get me,” Trump mentioned of Fuentes, per the Instances.

Trump’s advisers reportedly urge him to stay to the speeches as written; he sometimes sparked chaos when ad-libbing throughout his time as president.

Fuentes had confirmed up alongside Ye — the rapper previously often called Kanye West — to satisfy Trump at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida on Tuesday. Sources confirmed the assembly to retailers like Axios and Politico.

Ye’s profession has bounced from disaster to disaster after a collection of antisemitic tirades just lately received him kicked off Twitter and dropped from main company partnerships.

“Ye, previously often called Kanye West, was asking me for recommendation regarding a few of his difficulties, specifically having to do along with his enterprise,” Trump wrote Friday on Fact Social, the platform he based after getting banned from Twitter in early 2021.

“Anyway, we received alongside nice, he expressed no anti-Semitism, & I appreciated the entire good issues he mentioned about me on ‘Tucker Carlson [Tonight].’ Why wouldn’t I agree to satisfy?” Trump wrote, referring to the Fox Information program.

He added, “Additionally, I didn’t know Nick Fuentes.”

Fuentes, a white supremacist, has prompted outrage after cropping up alongside different distinguished Republicans previously, together with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia and Rep. Paul Gosar from Arizona ― each of whom later sought to distance themselves from Fuentes.

Trump additionally mentioned on Fact Social that he discouraged Ye from asserting a 2024 presidential run whereas the 2 met. Trump’s personal 2024 marketing campaign is lower than two weeks previous.

Ye, nevertheless, introduced his candidacy Thursday on Twitter with a video through which he partially described the dinner, stating that Trump had mentioned one thing derogatory about Kim Kardashian, Ye’s ex-wife.

The rapper’s Twitter account had been reinstated earlier this month below the management of recent CEO Elon Musk. It was additionally on the platform that Ye posted a screenshot of a textual content thread purportedly between himself, right-wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos, Fuentes and one other particular person whose title was blurred out.

Fuentes attracted public consideration in the course of the Trump years because the founding father of an extremist youth group known as America First who espouses hateful views which might be particularly hostile to individuals of coloration, ladies and Jewish individuals. He has at varied instances acknowledged that segregation was higher for Black Individuals and minimized the Holocaust by questioning how many individuals had been killed, evaluating them to cookies baking in an oven.

Fuentes additionally participated within the 2017 Unite the Proper rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Immediately after the occasion, which left one lady lifeless, Fuentes praised it as “unbelievable,” writing on Fb that the “rootless transnational elite is aware of {that a} tidal wave of white id is coming.”

Scores of Republicans chastised Trump for internet hosting Fuentes after information of the dinner leaked. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie even solid doubt on Trump’s suggestion that he wasn’t conscious of Fuentes’ background.

“He can’t stand not having consideration on a regular basis,” Christie advised The New York Instances, talking about Trump. “And so, having somebody present up at his membership — even in case you imagine that he didn’t know who Nick Fuentes was — and wish to sit with him, feeds the starvation he feels for the eye he’s lacking since he left the presidency.”