She’s back!
Laura Loomer, the 31-year-old conspiracy theorist and far-right activist whose closeness to President Trump threatened to derail his 2024 campaign, popped up again this week — in the Oval Office, apparently with a ‘kill list’ of staffers to be fired.
On Thursday, one day after Loomer’s face-to-face meeting with President Trump, he fired six members of the National Security Council.
Three had close relationships with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and one had close ties to Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz — a strategic way, perhaps, of punishing Rubio and Waltz for their roles in Signalgate.
Though Trump denied Loomer had any role in these firings on Air Force One on Thursday — ‘she makes recommendations… and sometimes I listen to those’ — other top advisers in that meeting told the New York Times they were alarmed by Loomer’s presence.
Remember: This is a woman who said, if Kamala Harris won the election, that ‘the White House would smell like curry.’
Who, upon the death of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a well-known member of the Black Congressional Caucus, called Lee a ‘ghetto bitch’.
Loomer has described herself ‘pro-white nationalism’, believes 9/11 was an ‘inside job’ and has accused Governor Ron DeSantis’s wife Casey of ‘exaggerating’ her breast cancer.
Laura Loomer (pictured), the 31-year-old conspiracy theorist and far-right activist whose closeness to President Trump threatened to derail his 2024 campaign, popped up again this week – in the Oval Office, apparently with a ‘kill list’ of staffers to be fired.
On Thursday, one day after Loomer’s face-to-face meeting with President Trump, he fired six members of the National Security Council. (Pictured: Laura Loomer and Donald Trump).
She has suggested that at least two of America’s worst mass shootings were staged.
Even for Teflon Don, this woman — hair freshly dyed hot pink — seems way too dangerous. It says something when eight members of his most loyal inner circle promptly leaked details of this meeting to the press.
It is all too reminiscent of last September, about six weeks out from the election and just off the back that disastrous Trump-Kamala debate.
Trump’s campaign, up until then steady, was seeming to falter – and not least because he made the decision to allow Loomer, an 9/11 conspiracist, to accompany him on his private jet to September 11 memorial services.
That’s when a friend of Trump, who speaks to him every week, told me of their serious concern and disgust over Loomer’s closeness.
‘The truth is no one’s in charge. He’s not taking good advice because there isn’t any. It’s embarrassing.’
Loomer — and if you believe in nominative determinism, this woman is the looming threat that won’t go away — clearly offers Trump something no other member of MAGA-land does.
Kanye West? Completely ousted. Antisemite Nick Fuentes? A distant memory.
But Loomer, who has been photographed pushing her breasts against Trump’s chest and has been invited to his private balcony at Bedminster, clearly has the president’s ear like no other.
No wonder Melania seems to prefer New York.
According to the Times, Loomer sauntered into the Oval with a stack of documents that named NSC members she wanted fired. Walz, who reportedly joined the meeting later, was described as practically neutered.
‘[He] briefly defended some of his staff,’ the Times reported, ‘though it was clear he had little if any power to defend their jobs.’
Let that sink in: Loomer, a professional agitator with no role in this administration, had more power in that meeting than Trump’s own national security adviser.
If Trump wants to push back against the liberal media narrative that the lunatics are running the asylum, this isn’t the way.
Even for Teflon Don, this woman – hair freshly dyed hot pink – seems way too dangerous. It says something when eight members of his most loyal inner circle promptly leaked details of this meeting to the press.
Loomer has described herself ‘pro-white nationalism’, believes 9/11 was an ‘inside job’ and has accused Governor Ron DeSantis ‘s wife Casey of ‘exaggerating’ her breast cancer .
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Among those present at the 30-minute Oval Office meeting were Vice President JD Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose brother died in 9/11 attacks — how he could be forced to sit in the same room with Loomer is beyond me — and Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles, who was instrumental in removing Loomer last September, when she was otherwise Velcroed to Trump’s side.
It was Wiles, Trump’s affectionately nicknamed ‘Ice Maiden’, who reportedly stopped Trump from hiring Loomer last year.
What on earth is Trump thinking now?
Loomer is surely his biggest liability, but perhaps that’s exactly why he likes her. She appeals to his inner chaos agent.
After all, this is a week that saw Trump’s tariffs wreak havoc on the stock market – and Elon Musk exit his role, reportedly sooner than anticipated.
One can only imagine the looks of disbelief in that meeting as Loomer, a crackpot who once got caught jumping Nancy Pelosi’s fence, dictated whose heads should roll at the NSC.
Her presence was either completely spontaneous or sprung by Trump on his unsuspecting staff. As the Times reported: ‘It was not clear how she was invited to such a sensitive meeting with the president’.
Truly, this beggars belief.
What other influence does Loomer exercise with her special access to the president? Foreign policy? Trade and tariffs? The expunging of rivals for his favor?
It was Loomer, after all, who went after Musk last year for his stance on granting H-1B visas to the best and the brightest, calling Indian migrants ‘third-world invaders’.
This is not a fine mind at work. Nor does she seem particularly emotionally mature. Loomer is nothing more than a click-baiting race hustler and xenophobe with zero scruples.
Say what you will about Trump, but he’s not dumb. Nor is he self-destructive.
Except, apparently, when it comes to Loomer.
He flirted with losing the 2024 election, in its final weeks, by bringing her along those 9/11 memorial events, offending MAGA Republicans and voters.
Loomer, who has been photographed pushing her breasts against Trump’s chest and has been invited to his private balcony at Bedminster, clearly has the president’s ear like no other.
Even Republican senator Lindsey Graham, who said ‘I don’t often agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene’, publicly joined the controversial congresswoman last year in urging Trump to cut Loomer loose.
‘The history of this person is just really toxic’, Graham told Huffpost. ‘I mean, she actually called for Kellyanne Conway’s daughter to hang herself.’
Loomer has zero shame.
In fact, this March, Loomer established her own opposition research firm, called — what else? — ‘Loomered’.
Spoiler alert: Getting Loomered isn’t a good thing, as Trump himself once pointed out when he lauded her at a Mar-a-Lago event, singling her out in the crowd.
‘You don’t want to be Loomered,’ Trump said. ‘If you’re Loomered, you’re in deep trouble.’
The President would do well to heed his own words.