Laura Loomer is no Marie Kondo. The right-wing provocateur loves mess. This week, Loomer has taken umbrage with major MAHA movement personnel and their boosters: Loomer, via her very active social media presence, has come out against new surgeon general nominee Casey Means, accusing her of being unvetted and unqualified for the role, as well as Jessica Reed Kraus, wannabe White House reporter and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fan, who is also known by her social handle HouseInhabit.
Loomer’s recent bit has been promoting herself as a master vetter, the ultimate unearther of skeletons in political closets. Her crowded timeline is essentially a case study in mean, self-promotion by way of being last woman standing: Means, in the running to become America’s Next Top Doctor, is more akin to a witch than a doctor, in Loomer’s characterization, and a photo of Kraus hugging Michael Cohen (who, as you’ll recall, is Donald Trump’s former fixer who testified against him in the hush-money trial that led Trump to becoming the first president to also be a convicted felon. After the election, Cohen unsuccessfully called for the case against his former boss, who once referred to him as “a rat,” to be dismissed) is evidence that she is a Democratic plant sent to infiltrate and destroy the presidency. Unspoken is the implication that Loomer, with the power of Google at her fingertips, not only passes the purity test, but should be the one to administer it to others before they cross the threshold at the White House.
MAHA, according to Loomer, is failing its health exam. Loomer is about as far right as it’s possible to go, self-describing as a “proud Islamophobe” during her unsuccessful 2020 congressional bid and maintaining that Muslims are “unfit for holding office.” The frequent twitterstorms and shitfits, complete with shock-value name-calling (on a February 28 episode of her streaming show, Loomer Unleashed, she referred to Kraus as an “insufferable cunt”) and stunts worthy of a Jackass spin-off (handcuffing herself to the Twitter headquarters for hours when she was banned from the platform; asking a person who she thought looked Muslim to “disavow terrorism;” eating MAGA-coded dog food for a few bucks and going back for seconds, and more) would seem to make her easy to write off as another shrieking harpy, but, terrifyingly, she seems to have the ear of Donald Trump.
The self-proclaimed pro-white nationalist has traveled on his plane and in his entourage multiple times, and in April, after Loomer met with Trump, JD Vance, and other officials, claiming that she had a list of people within the administration who were disloyal and undermining, six National Security Council officials were promptly canned.
“Laura Loomer is a very good patriot and she is a very strong person,” Trump told reporters the next day on Air Force One. “I saw her yesterday for a little while. She makes recommendations of things and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations.”
What Loomer left out of her recap of the remarks on social media was Trump denying that she had influenced the decision to fire the staffer. “No, not at all,” he said, according to the New York Times.
Loomer also claimed in late April that Trump has told his team to offer her a job several times, but those White House scoundrels “do not listen to him. His staff undermine his authority.” In April 2023, the Times reported that Loomer was set to be hired on Trump’s campaign, but that staff backlash halted the hire. Loomer, then, declined to comment “out of respect for President Trump.”
Still, Loomer is kamikaze-ing into the heart of MAGA, taking down those she believes to be bad actors down with her. “MAHA is literally being taken over by Marxists and Grifters,” she tweeted on Thursday, declaring the current situation “A TOTAL CRISIS!”
“I’m glad I initiated the MAHA breakup,” she asserted, also on Thursday. “Many of these grifters needed to be exposed for who they are.”
She doesn’t specify in those tweets who the breakup was between, but in another missive she points out Means and her family as the Marxist grifters in question, partly due to Means’s father, Grady Means, authoring a children’s book, The Adventures of Felix the Flamingo: Based On Many True Stories.” In the book, the titular Felix “begins to discover that he is an unusual bird who has lost his way,” according to its Amazon summary, which also touts exploration of gender and sexuality issues in the brightly colored pages.
