White supremacist Nick Fuentes turned on Donald Trump days after he dined with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
In a series of posts on Telegram Saturday, Fuentes called for a new leader further to the right of Trump. He does not believe that leader should be Ron DeSantis because the Florida governor is a “moderate.”
“When I say that Trump vs DeSantis is the wrong “dialectic,” I mean that they are both inferior to the campaign that Trump ran in 2016. DeSantis is a moderate and he would moderate Trump: lose-lose,” Fuentes wrote. “We need Trump and a NEW candidate who will outflank him on his Right.”
Fuentes, a far-right livestreamer who attended the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, accompanied rapper Ye to a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Ye claimed in a video on Thursday that Trump was “really impressed” with Fuentes, who has espoused antisemitic, racist and misogynistic views.
Trump tried to distance himself from Fuentes on Friday, claiming that he didn’t know who he was. Still, the meeting raised concerns about Trump’s willingness to meet with far-right extremists, and this could hurt his re-election chances heading into 2024, The Guardian noted.
However, Fuentes suggested that Trump meeting with him and Ye, would not hurt his 2024 chances. He claims it is the other way around as the former president is being used as “bait” to get the Republican party base to support leaders like Kevin McCarthy and RNC chair Ronna McDaniel.
“Conservative media speculates that Ye and I are being used to hurt Trump… it is the other way around. Trump and MTG are being used as bait to lure the base back into supporting people like Kevin McCarthy, Ronna McDaniel, and Rick Grenell,” Fuentes wrote. “I didn’t leave the MAGA movement… the MAGA movement left me”
He continued: “What are Christian Americans going to get out of a McCarthy speakership or a new Trump White House? Lower gas prices? Reduce the corporate tax rate? Years will pass us by as things remain fundamentally the same.”
“We must dream bigger. There’s only one guy talking about how the aspirations of the Trump Movement have been hijacked by people like Kushner. I’d be more concerned about that than dinner with a sweet 24 year old,” he added.
