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White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes is making the rounds on podcasts with millions of viewers
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The bro-casts are barely talking about Trump or hosting his allies ahead of the midterms
Written by Andrew Lawrence
Research contributions from Kayla Gogarty, Noah VanDowe, Hanne MacDonald & Jack Winstanley
Published 11/02/26
Widely credited with aiding Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, the bros of the podcast world appear to have largely abandoned the president and his allies in the lead-up to the 2026 midterms. In fact, 9 of the leading “bro-casts” that interviewed Trump or his running mate during the 2024 race have not hosted the president at all in 2026; Vice President JD Vance has appeared only once. The 9 shows have also barely mentioned the president ahead of this year's midterms, averaging less than 5 mentions of Trump per week by early October.
Axios reports new polling shows the favorability of 2024 Trump-aligned podcasters like Joe Rogan cratering among their male audience. Public opinion polling has also shown that young men have turned sharply away from Trump after helping him win the White House in 2024, when Wired reported “Trump used these podcast appearances to both humanize and mythologize himself.” But in 2026, as the mostly young and male listeners of these podcasts are seemingly abandoning Trump and other Republicans, these critical shows have held back their support as the president has increasingly made the midterms about himself.
Media Matters assessed the guests and discussions of 9 right-leaning podcasts that hosted Trump or Vance in 2024 — Flagrant, Full Send, Impaulsive, Lex Fridman Podcast, PBD Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Dillon Show, Shawn Ryan Show, and This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von — from January 1 to October 7, 2026, to gauge their level of engagement in this year’s midterms. We found these podcasts have largely backed away from Trump and his allies in 2026 after supporting him in 2024.
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Key Findings
Guests
President Donald Trump has not appeared as a guest on any of the studied podcasts in 2026, and Vice President JD Vance has appeared only once.
Less than 5% of the 596 total episodes in the studied time frame featured Trump allies as guests.
Nearly three-quarters of those episodes featuring Trump allies (20 of 27) came from just 2 shows, PBD Podcast and The Joe Rogan Experience.
The remaining 7 shows featured only 7 interviews with Trump allies.
Mentions of Trump
PBD Podcast was responsible for 6,294 of the 9,064 total mentions of Trump (69%) across all 9 shows.
Other shows largely ignored him, with Logan Paul’s Impaulsive mentioning Trump only 61 times and the Lex Fridman Podcast mentioning him just twice.
References to Trump per episode fell as 2026 wore on, beginning with nearly 35 average mentions per episode the first week of the year and falling to less than 5 per episode in the last week of the study period.
Trump allies hardly appeared on bro-casts in 2026
From January 1, 2026, through October 7, 2026, Donald Trump did not appear on any of the podcasts we assessed, and JD Vance made only 1 interview appearance (The Joe Rogan Experience). Overall, Media Matters found that only 27 of the 596 episodes of these podcasts in 2026 featured Trump allies as guests, and 20 of those appearances came on just 2 shows, PBD Podcast and The Joe Rogan Experience. Less than 3% of episodes on the remaining 7 shows featured guests who could be classified as Trump allies.
Mentions of Donald Trump have declined as the midterms approach
Not only have Trump allies been largely missing from these right-leaning podcasts that cater to young men, but the shows have barely been discussing Trump outside of a few programs.
Between January 1 and October 7, Trump was mentioned by these 9 shows a total of 9,064 times, with 69% of the mentions coming from PBD Podcast. Additionally, our data shows a decline in mentions of Trump over the studied time period.
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MAGA media: If Democrats take power in Congress, they will “trans your kids”
Written by Helena Hind
Published 10/29/26
Ahead of the midterms, MAGA media figures are trotting out their usual attacks against Democrats, including one particularly familiar argument: Vote Republican because Democrats want to “trans your kids, cut the genitals off your children.” Echoing anti-trans campaign rhetoric from 2024, some right-wing hosts and guests have repeated this narrative, warning their audiences, “You let those people get into power, you don’t have a country anymore.”
Several have specifically attacked Democratic Texas Senate nominee James Talarico for his public statements supporting transgender people.
The current anti-trans approach is an apparent rehash of a 2024 attack line. That year, Fox News significantly boosted its anti-trans coverage, airing at least 47 segments mentioning trans athletes in October 2024 compared to just six such segments in September 2024, an increase of more than 683%. A Trump campaign ad similarly attacking then-Vice President Kamala Harris for her support of gender-affirming care aired more than 30,000 times before Election Day.
GOP losses in 2025 gubernatorial elections, however, suggested that the anti-trans strategy was unreliable. Right-wing media portrayed the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races as further referendums on trans issues, and both Republican candidates lost. As Media Matters previously explained, those losses demonstrate that “the supposed backlash vote exists mainly in right-wing media rhetoric, not in voter behavior.”
Nevertheless, Republican candidates and organizations that support them have reportedly spent over $180 million on anti-trans political ads attacking Democratic candidates during the 2026 midterm cycle, even though few voters have ranked trans issues among their top concerns in recent polls. And with Republicans trailing in the polls, right-wing media have been getting more desperate and extreme in their attacks against Democrats, including by resorting to their same old anti-trans strategy.
Podcaster Steven Crowder: “We have a two-party system. One of them wants to trans your kids.” Crowder then played various clips of trans-affirming statements from Talarico and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). [Rumble, Louder with Crowder, 10/21/26]
Podcaster Andrew Kolvet attacked Democrats’ education policies and claimed, “They want to trans your kids.” Kolvet: “Let’s go through the list. What is the left better on, exactly? Are they better on the border? No, no, objectively no. Are they better on education? They want to indoctrinate your kids. They want to trans your kids. They don’t want to let you get school choice or vouchers to take your kids to a Christian school or a classical education school. No. So they’re not better there. Schools are failing.” [Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/20/26]
Right-wing commentator Chad Prather claimed “Democrat socialists” want to “trans your kids, cut the genitals off your children,” warning, “You let those people get into power, you don’t have a country anymore.” Prather: “These people running on the progressive left side, these Democrat socialists that are out there — I mean, if [Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul] El-Sayed is not evidence of that — if these people out there that want to put you on train cars that are dancing on the grave of Charlie Kirk that literally are wishing death upon conservatives in America. These people who want to trans your kids, cut the genitals off your children, these people, they want to abort babies up into toddlerhood — you let those people get into power, you don't have a country anymore. And I'm not overstating that. They've literally come out and said what they intend to do, what they want to do.” [BlazeTV, Sara Gonzales Unfiltered, 10/6/26]
Federalist CEO Sean Davis said Republicans should frame the midterms as “a choice between” Republicans and “people who want to cut off your kids' genitals, people who want to trans your kids.” Asked by podcaster Benny Johnson what he would like to see as a “closing midterm message” from Republicans, Davis replied: “I think it would be important for them to make clear that people have a choice, and you have a choice between a guy, Donald Trump, and Republicans, who really have done incredible work, even if they've not done everything we've wanted, and the choice between that and people who want to cut off your kids' genitals, people who want to trans your kids, people who want to import infinity Third-World Islamic jihadist radicals.” Johnson added, “We can put that on a shirt: godless American communists that want to cut your … children's genitals off.” [YouTube, The Benny Show, 9/29/26]
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On War Room, guest Danielle Buck said Talarico “wants to trans our kids,” adding, “This man is going to ruin our state.” Buck stated, “He wants to open our borders. He wants to trans our kids. He believes that there are six genders. He believes that God is nonbinary. Like, this man is going to ruin our state.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 9/23/26]
Blaze Media’s Glenn Beck claimed Democrats started “telling you that you got to trans your kid” after the 2020 election, adding, “They win this election, they're going to double down again.” Beck: “They’re going to double down after this election. They’re going to double down. You think it was bad then? Do you remember what it was like under Obama? And then Trump lost in 2020 and all of a sudden you’re like, oh my gosh, these people are monsters. What are they doing? All of a sudden, they're telling you that you got to trans your kid. And you're like, wait a minute, I didn't vote for any of that. You thought that was bad? They win this election, they’re going to double down again.” [Blaze Media, The Glenn Beck Program, 10/22/26]
PBD Podcast panelist Adam Sosnick: “They're going to trans your kids. They're going to Talarico your kids, and that's what's basically the Democratic brand is at this point.” Sosnick said the Democrats used to be “the party of the working man. Now they are the party of the working woman — the college-educated, liberal ideology, go to school in your ivory towers. The only thing that’s masculine about the Democratic Party these days are the Abdul El-Sayeds that want to put women in hijabs. That’s about as masculine as it gets. Other than that, they’re going to trans your kids. They’re going to Talarico your kids, and that’s what's basically the Democratic brand is at this point.” [Valuetainment, PBD Podcast, 10/19/26]
On his podcast, Donald Trump Jr. said that if Democrats come into power, there will be “trans kids back in school” and “trans agendas back in school, in your classrooms, with your children.” [Rumble, Triggered with Donald Trump Jr., 10/12/26]
Article III Project founder Mike Davis urged War Room viewers to vote Republican, asking, “Do you want Democrats funding trans surgeries for kids? Or do you want Trump blocking that?” Davis continued, “We need to … make a very rational decision here. It is team America versus team Mohammad.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 10/23/26]
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said Democrats “want to send CPS to your house to take your kids away if you don't want to trans your kids.” Answering the question “What could the Republicans focus on” in the midterms, Knowles listed immigration, violence, and supposed “predations” on Christians as issues Republicans could talk about before saying, “Let's talk about transing your kids. That's a major social issue. Let's talk about the LGBT indoctrination in kindergarten. Let's talk about all of those issues that we win on. Those are the 80-20 issues. Those are the 90-10 issues.” [The Daily Wire, The Michael Knowles Show, 9/28/26]
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld attacked Talarico: “The moment we get a Democrat president, he might just flip back again and start cutting up kids all over again.” Gutfeld also called Talarico “disturbing” and accused him of “demonic trickery.” [Fox News, The Five, 10/15/26]
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August 7, 2026, edition of PBD Podcast streamed on YouTube
PATRICK BET-DAVID (HOST): I was expecting, I was actually disappointed. Me and Tucker are obviously not friends. We're not —
ADAM SOSNICK (PANELIST): Yeah.
BET-DAVID: You know, we're not best of friends and all this stuff. Everybody knows he openly — and I called him out and he called me out for, I think he said something about Catholic comments I made. And I told him, I said, look, everybody says I'm taking money. You're taking money. Why don't we just do a full on audit by three different accounts?
ANTHONY SABATO JR. (GUEST): That would be great.
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BET-DAVID: But where I'm going, as a person who loves the game of debate and competition and ideas, I actually am disappointed that he didn't put a better plan together.
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ADAM SOSNICK (PANELIST): You see the numbers, and I'm sure we'll get into it, of Gen Z and college educated Gen Z, college educated female Gen Z, who are voting for this in New York. And I'm saying this hypothetically, sarcastically, but almost literally, there's a big portion of Gen Z that needs to go to American reeducation camps. And I know what that basically means, reeducation camps. I'm not talking about, you know, the really, really bad kind. But there's a whole segment of society that genuinely needs to be reeducated on what America is and what America is not. And America is not Zohran Mamdani. You're telling me, that a democratic socialist communist jihadist is gonna be mayor of the epicenter of capitalism, where Wall Street exists? This makes no sense.
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December 10, 2025, edition of PBD Podcast streamed on YouTube
PATRICK BET-DAVID (HOST): Dan, how do you address this?
DAN PEÑA (GUEST): Well, I don't like to disagree with him on the first topic, but, my kids, when they got out of undergraduate school, my daughter took seven months to find a job, and our son took nine months to find a job. And they both found jobs and it was a recessionary time, in both cases, by making hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of phone calls, hundreds and hundreds of letters out, going on dozens and dozens and dozens of interviews. And the kids today, because I have a fairly large consortiums, I got almost 40 companies, and the kids go one interview and they don't even call back to find out how they did.
So they, the elitist of that generation, in my opinion, are lazy. I mean, we don't have an affordability problem in my opinion. All I know is when I bought my first house and my dad bought his first house that we couldn't afford, he went out and worked overtime. He got another job. The kids don't want to have another job. They expect right out of school to make all kinds of, crazy money, six figure money, and they have no experience whatsoever. So I don't— the affordability to me, is a matter of choice. They're not looking hard enough and not working hard enough to get a job.
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Talk:Patrick Bet-David - Wikipedia
Patrick Bet-David (Syriac: ܦܛܪܝܩ ܒܬ ܕܘܝܕ, Armenian: Փատրիկ Բեթ Դավիդ) was born to a Christian family in Tehran, Iran, on October 18, 1978. His father is Assyrian and his mother is an Armenian from Baku, present-day Azerbaijan.[3][4] Bet-David and his parents left Iran as refugees during the Iran-Iraq War. In 1989, they spent time in a refugee camp in Erlangen, West Germany, before eventually immigrating to the United States and settling in Glendale, California.[2][5]
During his early adulthood, he lived a lifestyle which he has said was focused on partying before joining the United States Army. He claimed to have briefly worked as a bodyguard for a leading Los Angeles cocaine dealer. This period, according to Bet-David, contributed to his worldview.[2][6]
Bet-David said that, after his time in the U.S. Army, he reconnected with a high school friend who re-introduced him to Christianity.[2][6]
Career
Early career
On September 10, 2001, Bet-David was hired as a financial advisor at the Glendale branch of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He later worked at Transamerica for nearly eight years.[2]
Multi-level marketing agency
Bet-David in 2011
Bet-David founded PHP Agency in 2009, focusing on life insurance and financial services. The company, a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization, was acquired by Integrity, another MLM company, in 2022.[2][7]
Bet-David has faced criticism over his business practices, particularly regarding his insurance company, PHP. Prominent critics, including YouTuber Coffeezilla, have pointed to PHP as a prime example of an MLM scheme. In a three-hour interview with Bet-David, Coffeezilla showed filings according to which most of PHP's agents made virtually no money. Bet-David does not dispute this, but argues that other industries, such as real estate and insurance, also utilize MLM structures.[2]
A 2019 article in The Daily Beast says that PHP Agency's business model is more reliant on recruitment fees than on selling insurance products, and much of the company's income appears to come from fees paid by the recruits themselves. Critics, such as Douglas Brooks, an attorney specializing in multilevel marketing lawsuits, described the model as similar to a lottery, where only a few people succeed while the majority lose money.[8]
Valuetainment
On November 9, 2012, Bet-David launched the Valuetainment channel on YouTube, which features commentary by Bet-David, as well as interviews. A 2015 video entitled "The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 Seconds" went viral, significantly increasing his public profile.[2] The platform eventually grew into a larger media company, which hosts conventions featuring speakers including Dwayne Johnson and Nick Saban.[9][10][11]
Political podcasts and interviews
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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Bet-David_%26_Charlie_Kirk_%2853423086898%29.jpg)Bet-David (left) with Charlie Kirk in 2023
As Valuetainment grew, Bet-David ventured into political commentary, launching "The PBD Podcast", which hosts debates and interviews on American politics and cultural issues. On the podcast, Bet-David has interviewed guests including retired U.S. Secret Service agent Clint Hill, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, Bishop Mari Emmanuel, Sammy Gravano, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Baldwin, Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Nick Shirley,[12] and Donald Trump. He has established himself as a supporter of Trump.[2][13]
Bet-David expressed skepticism about the 2020 U.S. presidential election results. In an interview with The Spectator, he cited the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story on Twitter as evidence of election interference, framing his view as "Rigged Lite," similar to Tucker Carlson's position.[2]
In a July 2024 interview on Fox News, Bet-David advised Donald Trump to return to 2016-style messaging, stating: "Trump needs to go back to 2016 speeches, sell me on the concept of the American Dream."[14]
In an interview with Benjamin Netanyahu on August 26, 2025, in response to a direct question by Bet-David, the Israeli prime minister acknowledged the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides.[15]
Reception
Bet-David has received criticism from various media outlets. Media Matters and MIT Technology Review have criticized Bet-David and his platform for promoting conspiracy theories and failing to challenge controversial guests.[16] MIT Technology Review noted that Bet-David interviewed anti-vaccine activists and promoters of COVID-19 misinformation, typically in a non-confrontational manner.[16]
Books
- Bet-David, Patrick; Dinkin, Greg (August 18, 2020). Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy. Gallery Books. ISBN 9781982154806.
- Bet-David, Patrick; Dinkin, Greg (December 5, 2023). Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9780593712849.
- Bet-David, Patrick (2024). The Academy. Permuted Press. ISBN 9798888455609.
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Right-wing media champion migrant detention camps amid reports of horrific conditions
Pro-Trump podcaster: “You got to break a couple eggs in order to make an omelet”
Written by Chloe Simon & Gideon Taaffe
Published 08/13/25
Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration has held thousands of undocumented immigrants — including many without a criminal record — in a network of domestic and international detention centers. Two of these, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) and the newly opened “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, have already been criticized for appalling conditions and human rights abuses.
As firsthand accounts of these detention centers began to be widely reported, right-wing media have justified the conditions by claiming that people being sent there are “the worst of the worst”; arguing that Alligator Alcatraz is meant as “a deterrent more than punishment"; and suggesting that “you got to break a couple eggs in order to make an omelet.”
The Trump administration has ramped up arrests, targeting many who reportedly have no criminal record
- The number of migrants detained during Trump’s second term has risen sharply from 2024.According to The Guardian, “The average number of people held in Ice detention jumped from 40,000 right before Trump’s inauguration, to about 55,000 in late June.” The Marshall Project published data showing that “from late May to late June, ICE had used 432 facilities to hold immigrants, up from 315 over the month leading up to Trump’s second inauguration.” The administration has also detained hundreds of migrants in foreign camps. The Guardian, [7/23/25; The Marshall Project, 8/1/25; Council on Foreign Relations, 7/1/25]
- CECOT in El Salvador and Alligator Alcatraz in Florida are two of the most notorious detention centers — and reporting shows that hundreds of detainees sent there have no criminal record.CBS News’ 60 Minutes reported that “we could not find criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans — 179 men — now sitting in prison” in El Salvador. The Miami Herald found “more than 250 people who are listed as having only immigration violations but no criminal convictions or pending charges in the United States” out of at least 700 people reportedly held in the Florida facility. ProPublica, [8/6/25; Human Rights Watch, 7/21/25; CBS News, 4/6/25; The Miami Herald, 7/13/25]
- After Trump toured Alligator Alcatraz, right-wing media claimed that the detention center is for the “worst of the worst.”Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed the detainees “are drug traffickers and child rapists,” while guest host Charlie Hurt said the facility would be used to house the “baddest of the bad hombres.” Media Matters, [7/15/25]
- ## Firsthand accounts and other reporting have detailed the ghastly conditions at CECOT and Alligator Alcatraz
- :{:{Three men deported to CECOT and then released to Venezuela spoke to ProPublica about the abuse they endured, including “physical torture.”The men were sent to CECOT with no record of criminal activity and detailed their experience to ProPublica. The former detainees reported that many inmates attempted suicide rather than live at the facility, and one claimed he was beaten by guards until he could not see out of one eye. ProPublica, [8/6/25; YouTube,}:
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- CECOT deportees told NBC News they were “being beaten, sexually assaulted and told to ‘commit suicide.’”The men detailed physical punishment they received, with one saying that guards “made us get on our knees, they would step on our toes with their boots. They hit us with batons, they hit us on the head.” NBC News also reported that “guards denied them food and access to bathrooms or showers as punishment.” NBC News, [7/28/25]
- Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay asylum-seeker from Venezuela, reported being sexually assaulted by CECOT guards. Romero told NBC News the guards “made me kneel, perform oral sex on one person, while the others groped me and touched my private parts” and “stroked me with their batons.” NBC News, [7/28/25]
- :{:{Detainees at the Florida detention center have reported “feeling a state of torture,” suffering “physical assaults,” and being shackled in “a four-by-four-foot square” guards called “the box.” One contracted guard claimed that “the mosquitoes are filling the bathrooms, the showers” while detainee Anderson Miranda said “most of us have skin irritations from mosquitoes; they don’t give us spray. All of us worry that we’ll get a disease because of the mosquitoes.”}:
A Nicaraguan migrant alleged that guards “chained me to the ground,” called him racial slurs, and put him “in a four-by-four-foot square in the recreation yard” that “was directly in the Everglades sun and heat, for several hours, with no water.” NBC News reported one detainee got foot fungus seemingly due to “limited access to showers and poor sanitation.” Another detainee “reported that people held in Alligator Alcatraz ‘are only allowed one meal a day (and given only minutes to eat), are not permitted daily showers, and are otherwise kept around the clock in a cage inside a tent,’” citing “instances of physical assaults and excessive use of force by guards, along with a lack of medical care and attention.” The Washington Post, [7/17/25; WLRN, 7/22/25; NBC News, 7/22/25, 8/6/25]}:
- After a visit to the Florida facility, members of Congress and state representatives expressed horror, with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) saying migrants were “essentially packed into cages, wall-to-wall humans, 32 detainees per cage.”CNN reported they heard migrant “detainees shouting for help and crying out ‘libertad’— Spanish for ‘freedom’ — amid sweltering heat, bug infestations and meager meals.” CNN, [7/13/25]
- ## Right-wing personalities justified Trump’s detention policies because migrants “acted like animals” and “sometimes you got to break a couple eggs in order to make an omelet”
- CECOT detainees “came into this country and acted like animals,” said Fox host Lawrence Jones, adding, “If you wanted to have a better life, you could have done it the legal way.” Jones continued, “But even, let’s say you didn’t do it the legal way, act like a model citizen. Go out there, find a job, and do all that. But they chose not to. They harassed Americans, assaulted Americans, murdered Americans, raped children, and this is the consequence.” Co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested that he would “rather [face] the death penalty” than be sent to CECOT, adding, “I love it.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [3/27/25]
- PBD Podcastco-host Adam Sosnick dismissed people being detained in “Alligator Alcatraz,” claiming that “sometimes you got to get shit done and you got to break a couple eggs in order to make an omelet.”Sosnick said: “They said, you know, ‘We can't separate kids from their family.’ Well, that's exactly what you do when your father is a drug dealer and he has to go to jail. ‘We can't separate the mother from the children.’ It's exactly what happens when your mother committed a crime. She has to go to jail. It sucks. Nobody likes to see people being rounded up, gathered, and thrown in jail. Nobody likes that. It's not pretty, but none of this is meant to be pretty. Something called G.S.D. — getting shit done. Sometimes you got to get shit done and you got to break a couple eggs in order to make an omelet.” YouTube, *The PBD Podcast*, [7/17/25]
- Fox & Friendsco-host Ainsley Earhardt dismissed concerns about detainees sent to CECOT: “These are criminals, so why do you care?”After Jones claimed that innocent people “are not being deported right now, it’s only the criminals,” Earhardt added, “Isn't it better for them to be in another country that’s paying for them? We paid them $6 million. We would have paid so much more, probably $6 million per person if they stayed in America. But they are criminals and then Donald Trump is shipping them off to another country.” Fox News,*Fox & Friends*, [3/19/25]
- Fox News host Greg Gutfeld mocked concerns about conditions at the Florida detention center, saying, “Oh, not mosquitos! That’s just like my lakehouse.”Co-host Jesse Watters added, “So if someone was charged with rape and they are in Alligator Alcatraz, you are worried about mosquitoes?” Fox News,*The Five*, [7/17/25]
- Trump ally Laura Loomer called migrants “animals” and said, “I think it's actually a really good thing that we're putting illegal aliens in cages and we're letting them know, ‘Hey, you're going to be eaten by alligators.’”Loomer continued, “I apologize to the innocent animals who I’m comparing to these savage, subhuman illegal aliens.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [7/1/25]
- ## Other right-wing media figures argued that the prison conditions are a “deterrent”
- Fox’s Jesse Watters suggested stories coming out of Alligator Alcatraz are meant to “deter bad behavior.” Watters: “Trump is not feeding migrants to alligators but sometimes you have to make up scary stories in a way to deter bad behaviour.” Watters also compared the conditions to when he tells his child that if she continues crying, “we’re going to drop her off at Dr. Duncan’s house and he’s really mean and has an angry dog that bites.” Fox News,*Jesse Watters Primetime*, [8/5/25]
- Watters claimed the prisons are “making our communities safer” by getting migrants to self-deport, calling it the “El Salvador special.” Watters: “All it took was a new president. Donald Trump's hard-line approach to the border, let's call it the El Salvador special, is getting the illegals to do Tom Homan's job. Thousands of self-deporting illegals are going back to their home countries, thanks to the handy app Trump reverse engineered from Joe. It is already making our communities safer.” Fox News, *The Five*, [4/10/25]
- Fox contributor and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway claimed Alligator Alcatraz is meant to be “a deterrent more than punishment and is meant to be a holding place until we can put you where you belong.” Conway: “They are layering the disincentives, Greg. If you hear for the second or third month in a row there are zero, zero border crossings, to the point where Trump said yesterday he didn't even believe the numbers. He said how is it zero? You’re saying, ‘Am I going to be the one who actually slips through? Probably not. And if I am, look what happens. I go there temporarily.’ Or they may be hearing Democrats won't tell you: 150,000-plus square feet, 24/7 air conditioning, 24/7 health facility, 24/7 pharmacy, three hot squares, all the things the Democrats won't tell you, that this is meant to be temporary until you can move people where they belong which is not in the interior of this country.” Fox News, *The Five*, [7/17/25]
- Fox News host Brian Kilmeade claimed that the poor conditions of the Florida detention center “hits the exact criteria necessary.”Kilmeade: “He [Ron DeSantis] is getting push back because I guess there is some mosquitoes on the inside and it is not the greatest accommodations, but I think it hits the exact criteria necessary.” Fox News,*The Will Cain Show*, [7/25/25]
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ADAM SOSNICK (PANELIST): You see the numbers, and I'm sure we'll get into it, of Gen Z and college educated Gen Z, college educated female Gen Z, who are voting for this in New York. And I'm saying this hypothetically, sarcastically, but almost literally, there's a big portion of Gen Z that needs to go to American reeducation camps. And I know what that basically means, reeducation camps. I'm not talking about, you know, the really, really bad kind. But there's a whole segment of society that genuinely needs to be reeducated on what America is and what America is not. And America is not Zohran Mamdani. You're telling me, that a democratic socialist communist jihadist is gonna be mayor of the epicenter of capitalism, where Wall Street exists? This makes no sense.
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After Mamdani won the NYC Democratic mayoral nomination, right-wing media resorted to predictable racist and Islamophobic attacks
Written by Gideon Taaffe, Chloe Simon & Torri Lonergan
Published 07/03/25
After Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim New York State Assembly member, won the Democratic nomination in the New York City mayoral race, right-wing media predictably resorted to racist, Islamophobic, and xenophobic attacks against him.
Right-wing host Mike Crispi called Mamdani a “pig” for eating with his hands, Newsmax host Greg Kelly attacked him over his clothes, saying he should assimilate, and Newsmax host Michael Savage labeled him a “jihadist sympathizer.”
Right-wing media figures also attacked Mamdani for being Muslim, with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk claiming that Mamdani’s win means Islam gets the “last laugh” for 9/11 and right-wing podcaster Dave Rubin speculating that “of course he’ll be for Sharia law.”
President Donald Trump has threatened to have Mamdani arrested or deported if he interferes with federal immigration enforcement, and Wayne Allyn Root wrote at The Gateway Pundit, “Say it with me, ‘DEPORT MAMDANI!”
Right-wing media’s racist commentary about Mamdani follows a long history of racist, Islamophobic, and xenophobic attacks on Muslim and immigrant politicians including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Mamdani gained national attention after winning the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City
- Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim democratic socialist and New York State Assembly member, secured the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor.His campaign centered on progressive policy propositions such as rent freezes, free public transportation, universal child care, and increased taxes on corporations and the ultra‑wealthy. The Associated Press, [7/1/25; The New York Times, 6/28/25]
- President Donald Trump threatened to have Mamdani arrested or deported if he interferes with federal immigration enforcement.Trump, who referred to Mamdani as a “100% Communist Lunatic,” also falsely implied that Mamdani might not be in the country legally and warned of consequences if he blocks ICE raids. In a statement, Mamdani, who is a naturalized citizen born in Uganda, said, “We will not accept this intimidation.” Forbes, [7/1/25; The Washington Post, 7/1/25]
- ## Right-wing media have used racist, Islamophobic, and xenophobic tropes to denigrate Mamdani
- Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk condemned Mamdani for eating rice “disgustingly”: “We in the West value cleanliness. We have utensils.” He also claimed, “People that have grown up in the Third World, they say he's not even doing it right. He's just faking it. He's doing this to signal his Third World cred. So think about it. To get credibility in the New York mayor's race, you have to pretend to be in the Third World.” *The Charlie Kirk Show*, [7/1/25]
- Right-wing talk show host and self-described “Islamophobe” Laura Loomer, who has previously eaten dog food on her show, attacked Mamdani for eating with his hands, saying, “It's so emblematic of how uncivilized, not just Zohran Mamdani is, but just how uncivilized Islam and third world immigration into our country is as a whole.”She also claimed that “a lot of animals are cleanlier" than Mamdani. *Laura Loomer Unleashed*, [7/1/25; Twitter/X, 9/6/24; Media Matters, 4/4/24]
- Real America’s Voice host Mike Crispi wrote, “Look at how this pig Zohran eats with his hands. We don’t do this in America.”He continued, “Have some respect for our system, it’s literally why your rich parents moved you here. That includes using a FORK and acknowledging the greatness of CAPITALISM.” Twitter/X, [6/29/25]
- Newsmax host Greg Kelly claimed the style of Mamdani’s clothing “is not how we roll here” and said he should assimilate.Kelly argued, “There is something called assimilation, right? Kind of joining the culture. And there's a lot of room for individuality in our culture, but this is screaming, and he's actually kind of inviting, ‘Hey, say something about my clothes.’ Well, you got it, pal.” Newsmax, *Greg Kelly Reports*, [6/30/25]
- PBD Podcastco-host Adam Sosnick said, “New York, you're about to have, potentially, a democratic socialist, progressive, jihadist mayor.” Valuetainment, *PBD Podcast*, [6/24/25]
- A week later, Sosnick said, “What do you get when you mix AOC and jihad? You get Zohran Mamdani.” Sosnick added, “I don't think New York City is going to go for this, and I think they're going to take care of this one way or another, if you know what I'm saying. The threat will be eliminated.” Valuetainment, *PBD Podcast*, [7/1/25]
- Newsmax host Michael Savage claimed Mamdani’s nomination marks the first time we have seen a “socialist sympathizer of jihadism rise to prominence in an election in America.”He also referred to Mamdani as a “Marxist jihadist sympathizer.” Newsmax, *TheSavage Nation*, [6/29/25]
- Podcaster Dave Rubin said Mamdani is part of a “Muslim tradition where they’re allowed to lie to the infidel, basically, to attain power,” adding, “Of course he’ll be for Sharia law.” He continued, “This guy gets in as New York City mayor, do you think you’re going to hear more or less Muslim calls to prayers five times a day in New York City? It’s going to take over the entire city.” YouTube,*The Rubin Report*, [6/30/25]
- ## Right-wing media have invoked terrorism and 9/11 to attack Mamdani, who is Muslim
- Charlie Kirk said Islam may get the “last laugh” for 9/11 if Mamdani wins the mayoral race.He continued, “Could you imagine New York City, the city that got attacked by Islam and Mohammadism then, now becomes conquered and ruled by Zohran Mamdani.” *The Charlie Kirk Show*, [6/24/25]
- Kirk also tweeted, “24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.” Twitter/X, [6/24/25]
- Podcaster Vincent Oshana claimed Mamdani “has Islamic, like, supremacist background” and said, “Imagine telling the families of 9/11, 24 years later, that this guy — this, like, jihadi-backed freaking Marxist … it looks like he’s going to get elected.”He added that Mamdani is a “Twelver Shia Muslim,” noting, “Same sect as Iran's ruling regime." YouTube, *PBD Podcast*, [6/24/25]
- Laura Loomer: “How did we get to this point where 24 years ago, we had the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks in New York City? And now 24 years later, they're about to elect a jihadist communist mayor.” *Loomer Unleashed*, [7/1/25]
- Fox’s Katie Pavlich claimed Mamdani has “pro-terrorism views” and suggested he believes in “blowing up cafes, buses, concerts.” While guest-hosting The Ingraham Angle, Pavlich said, “It’s really important to point out that Mamdani is saying that he wants to globalize the intifada, which means blowing up cafes, buses, concerts — and we’ve seen this violent movement occurring in New York City on campuses like Columbia, for example. And yet, this is something he endorses.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [7/2/25]
- Fox News host Greg Gutfeld called Mamdani a “social justice suicide” bomber.Gutfeld: “I feel like the Democrat Party is on a kamikaze mission. … If the party's going to go down, we're going to take the whole ship with us. The remaining sane Democrats -- if there are any, Jessica -- you've got to weigh the cost of sticking with these social justice suicide bombers, because nobody wants this.” Fox News, *The Five*, [6/17/25]
- ## Right-wing media have questioned Mamdani’s citizenship and called for him to be denaturalized and deported
- Mike Crispi claimed that “Mamdani should be deported and ineligible to run for New York City Mayor.” He posted: “Zohran Mamdani should be deported and ineligible to run for New York City Mayor. We have longstanding laws in this country preventing avowed foreign communists from resettling here. Zohran lied on his citizenship application when he came from Uganda 6 years ago. DEPORT!” Twitter/X, [6/26/25]
- Wayne Allyn Root wrote in The Gateway Pundit that Mamdani should be “denaturalized” and deported.He wrote, “Say it with me, ‘DEPORT MAMDANI!’” adding, “Let’s send Zohran packing back to Uganda.” The Gateway Pundit, [7/1/25]
- The Article III Project’s Will Chamberlain: “Denaturalize and deport Zohran Mamdani.” In another post, Chamberlain wrote, “Can’t be mayor of NYC if you’re stuck in Uganda.” Twitter/X, [6/24/25, 6/24/25]
- Former Newsmax and One America News host Emerald Robinson called Mamdani a “foreign op” and wrote, “The Trump Admin should deport him.”Her post said, “Zohran Mamdani is an example of the Red-Green Axis. That means: Marxists & Islamists are allies in destroying America. It's also a foreign op. He was born in Uganda.” Twitter/X, [6/25/25]
- ## Right-wing media have long used racist, Islamophobic, and xenophobic attacks against politicians of color
- Journalist Joan Walsh wrote in 2010 that Fox News was hyping “one ‘scary black people’ and ‘Obama's a racist’ story after another.”She added: “Fox News has, sadly, become the purveyor of a 50-state 'Southern strategy,' the plan perfected by Richard Nixon to use race to scare Southern Democrats into becoming Republicans by insisting the other party wasn't merely trying to fight racism, but give blacks advantages over whites.” Salon, [7/25/10]
- The late right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh called Obama “Barack Hussein Ayatollah Obama,” frequently emphasizing his middle name with add-ons of “Imam” and “Ayatollah” despite his Christian faith.Media Matters, [9/28/10, 9/29/10]
- Right-wing media have repeatedly tried to associate Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) with terrorism. Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks in Israel, right-wing media called Tlaib, who is a Palestinian American born in the U.S., a “terrorist sympathizer” and “anti-American.” On Newsmax, Mercedes Schlapp said “they should deport Rashida Tlaib” due to her comments about Palestinians. Media Matters, [10/13/23, 3/12/25]
- Right-wing media have also repeatedly suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should be kicked out of the United States and called her a “Jew hater.” Omar, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, has been the subject of abuse from right-wing figures. Former Fox host Tucker Carlson claimed she “passionately hates the country,” Fox host Will Cain said she was a “parasite on our political system,” and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth claimed Omar is what “unchecked illegal immigration and massive waves of refugees look like without assimilation.” One right-wing pundit called for Omar to buy “a one-way ticket” to Somalia while others have used a mistranslated speech to suggest she should be deported to Somalia. Media Matters, [6/17/25, 1/31/24, 5/7/20, 9/22/22, 5/4/21; House.gov, accessed 7/2/25]
- Right-wing media have used Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) ethnicity as a way to attack her. Fox News has accused her of bringing “Latin American” values to the U.S., and Fox News' Jesse Watters and former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova mocked Ocasio-Cortez's accent. Watters said she “went full taco,” and diGenova said she “does the Latina thing” in pronouncing her name with an accent. Media Matters, [4/12/19, 2/5/19, 10/20/22, 3/19/19]
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