The Dinner Between Donald Trump, Kanye West, Milo Yinnanopolis, Nick Fuentes
An odd event!
The Dinner Between Donald Trump, Kanye West, Milo Yinnanopolis, Nick Fuentes, and the Contemporary Madness of American Fascism
On November 15th, from his Florida Mar-a-Lago residence, former President Donald J. Trump announced the launch of his 3rd Presidential campaign following his Republican Party’s disastrous performance during the 2022 midterm elections. With the vast majority of Former President Trump’s 2022 handpicked midterm candidates losing their elections (ex, Mehmet Oz, Blake Masters), coupled with the threat of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ potential 2024 run, confidence that Trump can lead the Republican party and continue to capture the party’s spotlight is being put into question daily.
However, recently, former President Donald Trump has faced the most scrutiny for his November 22nd dinner at Mar-a-Lago with British alt-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, American Nazi commentator and live streamer Nick Fuentes, and rapper and producer Ye (Kanye West). High-profile Republican leadership within Trump’s party has come out and condemned the former President for holding the dinner, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell both denouncing the dinner as well as the guests invited. So ,who are these guests, and what does this mean for the “Political Right” in the United States?
Milo Yiannopoulos:
Milo Yiannopoulos, a British Commentator and conservative media grifter, first got his start in politics in 2014 and went on to become an editor for the ultraconservative media outlet Breitbart. Under his tenure, the website published articles and opinion pieces that promoted racist and anti-Muslim themes throughout 2014 and 2015. Yiannopoulos positioned himself as a “Gay Conservative,” with much of his 2016 being spent on his Dangerous F*ggot Tour, visiting college campuses across the country to rail against issues and movements like feminism, political correctness, transgender rights, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter. However, Yiannopoulos’s time at Breitbart came to a close when comments he had made supporting pedophilia surfaced, causing him to lose his job. Earlier this year, Yiannopoulos claimed he underwent homosexual conversion therapy and is now “Ex-Gay.” Following this, he was hired as an intern and strategist for US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Nick Fuentes:
Nicholas Fuentes is a Hispanic American Nazi, incel white supremacist leader, organizer, manlet, and media figure who seeks to forge a white nationalist alternative to the mainstream Republican party. Nick Fuentes first gained notoriety and attention after he left Boston University in 2017 due to his involvement and attendance at the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following this, Fuentes started the online Livestream show “America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes,” in which he quickly gained popularity and a cult following amongst the online right. Fuentes has referred to his supporters as “Groypers” or the “Groyper Army,” in which he sponsors the idea that his supporters’ bigotry is “culturally essential” to preserve white, European-American identity. Fuentes has been excessively critical of modern feminism, citing there being no need for women’s suffrage, stating that “hookup culture” is a Jewish conspiracy, and saying on air that “having heterosexual sex is gay” and “Semitic.” Despite claims of calling members of the LGBTQ+ community groomers, pedophiles, and social degenerates, Fuentes, in 2022, was found with several gigabytes of femboy pornography on his phone. Fuentes has repeatedly denied the Holocaust, the impact of American slavery, and British colonialism. To further distance himself from the mainstream GOP, Fuentes founded the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), which hosted a variety of right-wing figures and political pundits.
Ye (Kanye West):
Rapper and Producer Ye (Kanye West) has been a provocateur for the majority of his career throughout the 2010s; however, his most recent spotlight in the American media landscape has by far been the most damaging to not only his career and legacy but also the American political climate as a whole, centering the rapper’s opinions on Jewish people and antisemitism primarily. On October 8th, in his now infamous tweet, Ye stated, “I’m a bit sleepy tonight, but when I wake up, I’m going deathcon 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti-Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” Following this, Ye went on to lash out against “Jewish Zionists,” who he claims control the entire music recording and banking industry. West pushed back at the idea that it was being antisemitic. Once again referencing the 12 lost tribes of Judah, West said, Just days after Ye, Fuentes, and Milo’s dinner with the former president Donald Trump, Ye’s antisemitic sentiment seemed to reach a breaking point; however, with Ye’s December 1st interview with far-right commentator Alex Jones, in which Ye said that he “loved Hitler”, “loved Nazis” and, that the “Holocaust didn’t happen.”
With all of this, we have to wonder what the result of this new flavor of the American right-wing will bring; it’s led by an antisemitic and bipolar rapper, a femboy porn-watching Nazi, and an “ex-gay” British pedophile.