Conservative influencer Nick Fuentes, who has refused to endorse Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential campaign, said Friday that the former president’s supporters dressing in garbage bags made him realize that “it is a cult.”
“At the Trump rallies they’re yelling ‘trash for Trump, trash for Trump,” Fuentes said on Friday, adding that some attendees have even started dressing up as trash. Dozens of Trump supporters, including Donald Trump Jr. and Megyn Kelly, posted photos on social media of them being “trash” for Halloween.
“That was the moment when I realized Trumpism was a cult, that was the moment when I realized liberals are right. That was the moment when I realized it has gone too far, it is Frankenstein’s monster, we’ve created a Gollum. It is a problem.”
He said, “It is a cult,” later referring to Trumpism as “a giant cult-like scam.” Fuentes noted that there is a “slavish devotion of the [Trump] followers, they’ll just eat up anything.”
Later during the episode, Fuentes said of Trump supporters dressing up as trash, “That’s actually a bad look. It’s negative; it’s sad and pathetic. Why would you dress up as garbage? And think about the connotations. Trump is a populist, he’s for the people…isn’t that what the elites already think about us? Don’t they think we’re garbage? Don’t they think we’re dirty and poor and part of this mob and then we go and put a trash bag on and become a caricature of that? Isn’t that kind of humiliating?”
Fuentes is among several conservative influencers and activists who once supported Trump but are now refusing to endorse him. On Friday night, Richard Spencer publicly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats down the ballot in Montana. In a phone interview with Newsweek on Saturday morning, he said Democrats are “more competent” than the GOP.
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