A former Trump White House aide said he purposefully gives homeless people counterfeit money so they would get arrested when using it.
John McEntee posted a video on the TikTok account of ‘The Right Stuff’, a conservative dating app he founded, outlining the cruel plot which he says is his way of helping to “clean up the community.”
“I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car so when a homeless person asks for money then I give him like a fake five dollar bill so I feel good about myself, they feel good and then when they go to use it they get arrested,” McEntee said. “So I’m actually helping clean up the community. You know, getting them off the street.”
Under federal law, it is a crime to intentionally “defraud, falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, or alters any obligation or other security of the United States.”
The crime is punishable by serving up to 20 years in prison.
McEntee added the caveat that the video was “just a joke,” but social media users didn’t find it funny.
“I can’t imagine being this awful as a human being,” Tara Setmayer said in response. “What a cruel, indecent POS.”
“How broken must you be to do this and think it’s funny?” David Corn the Washington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones Magazine said.
McEntee is a staunch Trump loyalist who worked in the White House as a personal aide to the president from 2017 to March 2018. He was later promoted to director of the White House presidential personnel office until Trump left office.
McEntee is currently a senior advisor to Project 2025, which is a proposed series of radical policy changes to reshape the federal government if Trump wins the presidential election.
