Donald Trump is one boomer Laura Loomer can’t rely on.
The right-wing provocateur came a few thousand votes shy of winning a safe GOP House seat in Florida last year, running a campaign in a district that contains The Villages while relying on “Boomers for Loomer.” But there weren’t enough boomers for Loomer last time — and President Trump is now wavering in his support for her, even though he’s both endorsed her and voted for her in one of her previous failed runs for Congress.
In tried and true Trumpworld fashion, a crazy Trump idea (in this case, forcing his campaign staff to hire Loomer for an unknown role) was floated to a journalist he trusts (as always, Maggie Haberman) at an outlet he loves reading (in this instance, the New York Times).
Just like a Chinese spy balloon, Trump’s idea was shot down, but not until after the damage was done. The backlash to the Times story was substantial — and Loomer’s friends and foes alike aired plenty of dirty laundry. Jonathan Swan, who cowrote the original story with Haberman, said that “the level of blowback that is said to have come at Trump from allies and advisors after this story published is stronger than for any potential staff appointment I can recall.”
As with most Trump dramas, the story didn’t end there. Loomer and her foe Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene spent their Passover and Easter weekends, respectively, tweeting and Telegramming insults at each other. (Loomer has infamously been banned from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, PayPal, Venmo, Lyft and Uber Eats.)
For weeks, Loomer has been flaming her state’s governor, and likely Trump opponent, Ron DeSantis, even going so far as to attack him and his breast cancer-surviving wife for playing “the ‘cancer survivor’ card to make people think they are untouchable from criticism.” Now, she’s been hitting the Georgia congresswoman for openly cheating on her husband in a polyamorous relationship with, among others, whatever a “tantric sex guru” is.
“I’m not going to stand for being viciously defamed in the media and called a LIAR and TOXIC by someone who couldn’t keep their loyalty to their own husband and family,” Loomer wrote. “Your word has no value. It’s why your husband divorced you.”
Greene didn’t take Loomer’s insults sitting down. “Laura Loomer is mentally unstable and a documented liar,” Greene wrote. “She can not be trusted [and] she tried to get hired on the Ye campaign after the infamous Mar-a-Lago dinner, but Kanye West refused to hire her so now she’s running to Trump.” Loomer is at odds with the two far-right influencers — head groyper Nick Fuentes and sometime MTG staffer Milo Yiannopoulos — who joined up with the Ye 2024 campaign after the rapper self-immolated last year.
Loomer, whose foes this weekend also included former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, further hit back at MTG by implying, without any hint of irony, that she’s a grifter: “Why don’t you tell everyone how you asked me for help raising money, you rented my email lists, you asked me to give you my opposition research on Ilhan Omar.”
But it’s MTG who had the last laugh in this battle (for now). The New York Times subsequently reported that Trump ditched his plan to hire Loomer following backlash from the right.
Meanwhile, Loomer is ready to emerge from this weekend’s drama by publishing an “exposé” on Speaker Kevin McCarthy, currently one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress. This strikes Cockburn as an unusual way of proving that you can help Trump and not be a distraction.
While Loomer’s Trump campaign chances are vanishing faster than her Venmo account, the National Pulse‘s Raheem Kassam has issued an open invite to both of the women to “enjoy a home cooked meal at my house on Capitol Hill with a view to squashing the beef.” Loomer is down: is MTG?
