Overview

Nick Fuentes is a far-right online influencer and political commentator known for praising Adolf Hitler and promoting racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic views. Fuentes has both covertly and openly associated with white-supremacist actors and causes while consistently utilizing coded language—such as “globalist” as a euphemism for JewBen Zimmer, “The Origins of the Globalist Slur,” Atlantic, March 14, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-origins-of-the-globalist-slur/555479/.—and irony to camouflage his most extreme views.Tom Dreisbach, “How Extremists Weaponize Irony to Spread Hate,” NPR, April 26, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990274685/how-extremists-weaponize-irony-to-spread-hate. Fuentes has used his social media platforms to accuse Jews and Israel of controlling the U.S. government while accusing President Donald Trump and other American politicians of being subservient to foreign powers.“Nicholas J. Fuentes,” X post, July 31, 2025, 8:25 p.m., https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1951076780590211226. In October 2025, conservative blogger and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson invited Fuentes onto his podcast, where they discussed Zionism and American Jews. Fuentes’s appearance drew widespread criticism and accusations that Carlson was platforming antisemitism.Tucker Carlson, “Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes,” The Tucker Carlson Show, October 27, 2025, YouTube video, 2:18:46, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efBB0D4tf1Y.

Politically active as a conservative since his high school years, Fuentes moved further right during his brief time in college. During his first semester at Boston University (BU) in October 2016, Fuentes uploaded a video, since deleted, on a BU-affiliated YouTube channel explaining his reasons for supporting then–presidential candidate Trump. In the video, he proclaimed that “political correctness and the multicultural movement in America are subverting any effort that a conservative could ever make to change the country.”Spencer Buell, “Nicholas Fuentes, BU’s ‘Multiculturalism Is Cancer’ Teen, Has Left Boston,” Boston, August 16, 2017, https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/08/16/nicholas-fuentes-bu/. In a series of tweets posted around the same time, he declared that “multiculturalism is cancer” and implored male Clinton supporters to castrate themselves.Spencer Buell, “Nicholas Fuentes, BU’s ‘Multiculturalism Is Cancer’ Teen, Has Left Boston,” Boston, August 16, 2017,https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/08/16/nicholas-fuentes-bu/. In November 2016, Fuentes debated Jake Brewer, another BU student, at a student-organized event on campus. Much of the debate centered around the idea of multiculturalism. Brewer called Fuentes a fascist for the latter’s anti-multiculturalism tweet. The event drew a crowd of nearly 400 students.Tess Owen, “From Charlottesville to Mar-a-Lago: Nick Fuentes’ White Nationalist Journey,” Vice, December 1, 2022, https://www.vice.com/en/article/who-is-nick-fuentes/; Samantha J. Gross, “Fuentes, Brewer passionately debate over election, multiculturalism,” Daily Free Press, November 7, 2016,https://dailyfreepress.com/2016/11/07/fuentes-brewer-passionately-debate-over-election-multiculturalism.

Fuentes created his digital presence as a student at Boston University. In early 2017, Fuentes began cohosting a weekly podcast, Nationalist Review, with white supremacist James Allsup. Most episodes in the series have since been removed from mainstream podcast streaming services, with only episode 28 available on Apple Podcasts, and several episodes seem to have become lost media entirely.“James Orien Allsup,” Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed September 17, 2024,  https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-orien-allsup; Nationalist Review archive, archived June 24, 2021, at the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/nationalist-review/Nationalist+Review/Episodes/NR36-El+Goblino+in+a+MAGA+Hat.m4a. In April 2017, he began a livestreamed political commentary show entitled America First with Nick Fuentes. Fuentes partnered with Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), a conservative online media company, to help distribute America First. While livestreaming on April 19, 2017, Fuentes launched into a tirade against mainstream media, accusing “globalists” of running the media and calling for those in charge of CNN to be “arrested and deported or hanged because this is deliberate.”Media Matters Staff, “Right Side Broadcasting, the ‘Unofficial Version of Trump TV,’ Forced to Apologize for Contributor’s Call to ‘Kill the Globalists’ at CNN,” Media Matters for America, April 24, 2017, archived December 21, 2019, at the Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20191221021736/https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/right-side-broadcasting-unofficial-version-trump-tv-forced-apologize-contributors-call-kill. RSBN issued an apology for his statement, marking a growing divide between Fuentes and his sponsors.Media Matters Staff, “Right Side Broadcasting, the ‘Unofficial Version of Trump TV,’ Forced to Apologize for Contributor’s Call to ‘Kill the Globalists’ at CNN,” Media Matters for America, April 24, 2017, archived December 21, 2019, at the Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20191221021736/https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/right-side-broadcasting-unofficial-version-trump-tv-forced-apologize-contributors-call-kill.

In early August 2017, The Reagan Battalion, a center-right / anti-Trump Twitter account, leaked a video in which Fuentes and several others discussed “[being] hurt… by Jews” and compared interracial sex to bestiality. Alongside the leak, the Reagan Battalion named Fuentes as “@RSBNetwork host @NickJFuentes,” referencing his sponsor. Later reporting on the incident suggested that Fuentes’s following increased substantially shortly after the video was leaked.Tess Owen, “From Charlottesville to Mar-a-Lago: Nick Fuentes’ White Nationalist Journey,” Vice, December 1, 2022, https://www.vice.com/en/article/who-is-nick-fuentes/.

Fuentes attended the August 11-12, 2017, Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which drew various white supremacist factions and individuals protesting the alleged cultural takeover of the United States. The rally was marked by attendees chanting “Jews will not replace us!”Adam Gabbatt, “‘Jews will not replace us’: Vice film lays bare horror of neo-Nazis in America,” Guardian (London), August 16, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/charlottesville-neo-nazis-vice-news-hbo. In a since-deleted Facebook post describing the event, Fuentes wrote: “You can call us racists, white supremacists, Nazis, & bigots. You can disavow us on social media from your cushy Campus Reform job. But you will not replace us.”Kristin Toussaint, “Right-wing BU teen won’t return to Boston after attending Charlottesville rally,” Metro.us, August 16, 2017, https://www.metro.us/right-wing-bu-teen-wont-return-to-boston-after-attending-charlottesville-rally/. During the second day of the rally, on August 12, participant James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one and wounding 35. Less than an hour after the attack, Fuentes posted on Facebook that a “tidal wave of white identity is coming.”Collin Binkley and Michael Kunzelman, “After Charlottesville, colleges brace for more hate attacks,” Associated Press, August 18, 2017, https://apnews.com/general-news-e37308526e3a47fe9e85a3bb0080f6a5; Paul Duggan, “Charge upgraded to first-degree murder for driver accused of ramming Charlottesville crowd,” Washington Post, December 14, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/driver-accused-of-plowing-into-charlottesville-crowd-killing-heather-heyer-due-in-court/2017/12/13/6cbb4ce8-e029-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html.

Following his appearance at the rally, Fuentes received death threats at BU. He lamented the “level of hate that people have been able to express . . . against someone they’ve never met.”“Student From Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally Leaves Boston University After Backlash | TIME,” Time, August 18, 2017, YouTube video, 1:08, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTXsq6iqJUY. He claimed that he hates no one and that his reason for going to the rally was to “show solidarity” against “the fundamental transition of the composition of our country.”“Student From Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally Leaves Boston University After Backlash | TIME,” Time, August 18, 2017, YouTube video, 1:08, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTXsq6iqJUY. Fuentes announced his intention to drop out and transfer to Auburn University in Alabama. He told reporters that he was “ready to return to my base, return to my roots, to rally the troops and see what I can do down there.”Collin Binkley and Michael Kunzelman, “After Charlottesville, colleges brace for more hate attacks,” Associated Press, August 18, 2017, https://apnews.com/general-news-e37308526e3a47fe9e85a3bb0080f6a5. Fuentes was admitted to Auburn for the Fall 2017 semester but he failed to confirm his enrollment.Roy S. Johnson, “Nicholas Fuentes was admitted to Auburn in May for 2017 fall semester, school says; he must reapply for spring,” Al.com., August 20, 2017, https://www.al.com/opinion/2017/08/if_alt-rights_nicholas_fuentes.html.

RSBN broadcast its final episode of America First on August 11, 2017, the first day of the Unite the Right rally. Following the rally and leaked video, Fuentes broke with RSBN and began to distribute America First independently.Tess Owen, “From Charlottesville to Mar-a-Lago: Nick Fuentes’ White Nationalist Journey,” Vice, December 1, 2022, https://www.vice.com/en/article/who-is-nick-fuentes/. At the time of the event, Fuentes and RSBN presented their split as a mutual decision, but in 2022 Fuentes claimed on Telegram to have been fired in an attempt to protect RSBN’s brand.“Nick Fuentes,” Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed September 17, 2024, https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/nick-fuentes.

Fuentes hated the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, accusing Kirk of false patriotism and being a “Jewish shill” because of his Zionist, pro-Israel views.Scott Christenson, “Nick Fuentes, Groypers, and Charlie Kirk,” Medium, September 13, 2025, https://medium.com/@sukosuko1/nick-fuentes-groypers-and-charlie-kirk-a10838e04325. Fuentes’s followers coined the term “Groyper war” in 2019 when they began heckling Kirk and his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization. Fuentes and his followers adopted the term “Groyper” to refer to themselves.Ben Collins, “Pro-Trump conservatives are getting trolled in real life by a far-right group,” NBC News, November 12, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/pro-trump-conservatives-are-getting-trolled-real-life-far-right-n1080986. The term originates from a far-right Internet meme of a cartoon frog based on Pepe the Frog, created in 2005 by American artist Matt Furie. By 2014, far-right users on 4chan and Reddit had adopted Pepe and used the character in various racist memes.“The evolution of the Pepe the Frog meme,” Chatham House, last updated June 3, 2025, https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2023-04/evolution-pepe-frog-meme. In the fall of 2019, Fuentes’s followers began attending Kirk’s TPUSA events during Kirk’s Culture War speaking tour on U.S. college campuses. Fuentes’s fans repeatedly heckled event speakers with racist, homophobic, and antisemitic questions.“Groyper Army and ‘America First,’” Anti-Defamation League, March 17, 2020, https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/groyper-army-and-america-first. Kirk denounced white supremacy and Fuentes’s followers. After pro-Trump influencer Ashley St. Clair was photographed alongside Fuentes and other antisemitic / white nationalist influencers at a weekend dinner in September 2019, TPUSA quickly severed ties with St. Clair.Jared Holt, “TPUSA Cuts Ties with ‘Brand Ambassador’ Photographed with White Nationalists,” Right Wing Watch, September 20, 2019, https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tpusa-cuts-ties-with-brand-ambassador-photographed-with-white-nationalists/; Carlin Becker, “Turning Point USA ‘brand ambassador’ dumped after photo with white nationalists and anti-Semites surfaces,” Washington Examiner, October 1, 2019, archived July 16, 2020, at the Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20200716083217/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/turning-point-usa-brand-ambassador-dumped-after-photo-with-white-nationalists-and-anti-semites.

In 2020, Fuentes founded the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), named after his online show, with the stated purpose to “champion the role of God in society, [and uphold] the principles of Nationalism, Christianity, and Traditionalism.”“About the America First Foundation,” America First Foundation, accessed September 17, 2024, https://americafirstfoundation.org/about/. The inaugural AFPAC hosted Patrick Casey, leader of the now-defunct neo-Nazi American Identity Movement.“Michelle Malkin receives media credentials for CPAC, despite being listed for alt-right conference,” Jewish News Syndicate, February 10, 2020, https://www.jns.org/michelle-malkin-receives-media-credential-for-cpac-despite-being-listed-for-alt-right-conference/. Later AFPACs would host far-right legislators such as Marjorie Taylor Greene.“AFPAC III: Elected Officials Support White Supremacist Event,” Anti-Defamation League, February 26, 2022, https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/afpac-iii-elected-officials-support-white-supremacist-event. During the second AFPAC in February 2021, U.S. Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, a Republican, attempted to distance himself from Fuentes’s bigotry at the conference, denouncing “white racism” while affirming his belief in a “strong immigration system.”Will Steakin, “GOP congressman headlines conference where organizers push white nationalist rhetoric,” ABC News, February 27, 2021, https://abcnews.go.com/US/gop-congressman-headlines-conference-organizers-push-white-nationalist/story?id=76152780.

The fourth AFPAC, initially planned for early 2023, was postponed repeatedly while Fuentes and his associates struggled to find a venue. In June of 2024, TPUSA was scheduled to hold its People’s Convention in Detroit, Michigan. To compete with TPUSA, Fuentes booked another venue in Detroit, the Russell Center, through a hired production company and scheduled AFPAC IV for the same dates. However, on June 14, the Russell Center discovered Fuentes’s involvement and refused to host the conference. Left without a proper event space the day before AFPAC was scheduled to take place, Fuentes briefly stopped communicating with his followers while he tried and failed to salvage the conference. He and his supporters eventually regrouped near TPUSA’s convention and held an impromptu rally.Amanda Moore, “I Watched Groypers Descend on Detroit—Where They Were No Longer Pariahs Among Mainstream Republicans,” Intercept, July 18, 2024, https://theintercept.com/2024/07/18/nick-fuentes-america-first-conference/; Niraj Warikoo, “Right-wing conference in Detroit is canceled after police respond to dispute,” Detroit Free Press, June 15, 2024, https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2024/06/15/america-first-conference-in-detroit-is-canceled-amid-dispute/74113669007/.

Leveraging multiple social media platforms, Fuentes has embraced antisemitic, racist, homophobic, and misogynistic rhetoric. He has openly questioned the veracity of the Holocaust, calling it “exaggerated.”“Nicholas J. Fuentes: Five Things to Know,” Anti-Defamation League, last updated April 4, 2025, https://www.adl.org/resources/article/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-know. He has also claimed to miss Adolf Hitler and questioned how long it would take Sesame Street character Cookie Monster to bake six million cookies.Eli Lake, “How Nick Fuentes Went Mainstream,” Free Press, October 20, 2025, https://www.thefp.com/p/how-nick-fuentes-went-mainstream.

By March 2021, Fuentes had been banned from most mainstream social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. He has also been banned from text, video, and audio communications platforms such as Discord and Clubhouse, as well as content distribution platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Twitch, Streamlabs, and Dlive. Payment processors such as Stripe, Venmo, Paypal, Patreon, Coinbase, Amazon Web Services, and short-term rental app Airbnb have also banned Fuentes.John Keilman, “Cancel proof? Activists are trying to get Nick Fuentes, a far-right video streamer from the western suburbs, kicked off the internet. It might be impossible,” Chicago Tribune, March 29, 2021, https://www.chicagotribune.com/2021/03/29/cancel-proof-activists-are-trying-to-get-nick-fuentes-a-far-right-video-streamer-from-the-western-suburbs-kicked-off-the-internet-it-might-be-impossible/. On July 9, 2021, Twitter banned Fuentes for “repeated violations” of its rules.Jack Brewster, “Twitter Bans White Nationalist Leader Nick Fuentes, Ally of Arizona Republican Rep. Gosar,” Forbes, July 9, 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/07/09/twitter-bans-white-nationalist-leader-nick-fuentes-ally-of-arizona-republican-rep-gosar/?sh=42c52bdb49f7. However, after billionaire Elon Musk purchased Twitter at the end of October 2022, Musk reinstated Fuentes and other white nationalists later that year. However, Twitter reinstated Fuentes’s ban before the end of the month after he began creating new accounts before his official reinstatement.Kate Conger and Lauren Hirsch, “Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter,” New York Times, October 27, 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html; Zachary Petrizzo, “White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Re-Banned from Twitter,” Daily Beast, October 30, 2022, https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-re-banned-from-twitter/. In May 2024, X, formerly known as Twitter, unblocked Fuentes.Gabby Deutch, “Conservatives resist blaming Musk for reinstating Nick Fuentes on X,” Jewish Insider, November 4, 2025, https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/nick-fuentes-elon-musk-x-account-social-media-followers/. As of early November 2025, Fuentes had more than one million followers on X.Nicholas J. Fuentes, X account, accessed November 4, 2025, https://x.com/nickjfuentes.

Fuentes has gone from supporting President Trump to criticizing him. As a first-year BU student in October 2016, Fuentes uploaded a video, since deleted, on a BU-affiliated YouTube channel explaining his reasons for supporting then-candidate Trump. In the video, he proclaimed that “political correctness and the multicultural movement in America are subverting any effort that a conservative could ever make to change the country.”Spencer Buell, “Nicholas Fuentes, BU’s ‘Multiculturalism Is Cancer’ Teen, Has Left Boston,” Boston, August 16, 2017, https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/08/16/nicholas-fuentes-bu/. In November 2022, Fuentes joined Trump and musician Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) for a private dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Ye, campaigning for president while under fire for antisemitic statements, reported that Trump was “really impressed” with Fuentes for the latter’s loyalty to Trump and his ideals.Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu, “Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner,” Axios, November 26, 2022, https://www.axios.com/2022/11/25/trump-nick-fuentes-ye-kanye. An anonymous source similarly reported that Trump was “quite taken” by Fuentes, but also claimed that he didn’t “believe the president knew who the hell [Fuentes] was.”Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu, “Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner,” Axios, November 26, 2022, https://www.axios.com/2022/11/25/trump-nick-fuentes-ye-kanye. Both Democrats and Republicans condemned Trump for dining with two notorious antisemites, and Trump later confirmed that he was unfamiliar with Fuentes before the meeting.Edwin Rios, “Trump condemned for dining with white supremacist Nick Fuentes,” Guardian (London), November 26, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/26/trump-nick-fuentes-dinner-reaction.

Leading up to Trump’s second term, however, Fuentes began to lash out at Trump officials he accused of undermining Trump’s campaign. In August 2024, Fuentes declared “Groyper War 2” on several Trump campaign officials, such as Chris LaCivita and Susan Wiles, blaming them for Trump’s poor polling. He also took issue with vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who condemned and insulted Trump years before joining him on the ticket. In response, Vance called Fuentes a “loser” and told Trump supporters not to engage with him.Drew Harwell, “Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign,” Washington Post, August 18, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/18/trump-campaign-nick-fuentes-groypers-hard-right-criticism/; Owen Lavine, “Trump Dinner Guest Nick Fuentes Declares ‘War’ on the Ex-Prez,” Daily Beast, August 10, 2024, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dinner-guest-nick-fuentes-declares-war-on-the-ex-prez.

Since Trump took office for his second term in January 2025, Fuentes has increasingly accused him of being a puppet of Israel. In March 2025, Fuentes lamented that in his two months in office Trump had begun “deporting people for criticizing Israel and preparing to nuke Iran.”Nicholas J. Fuentes, X post, March 31, 2025, 2:20 p.m., https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1906743477330714656. He subsequently accused Trump of having a “Zionist immigration policy” for deporting Israel’s detractors while allowing “illegal migrant workers to stay.”Nicholas J. Fuentes, X post, April 11, 2025, 1:54 p.m., https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1910753223499272370. In an April 12, 2025, post on X, Fuentes asked, “How much shilling for Israel is too much before [Trump’s] supporters will admit this is a problem?”Nicholas J. Fuentes, X post, April 12, 2025, 6:38 a.m., https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1911005913713959078.

On October 27, 2025, Fuentes appeared as a guest on conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s podcast.Tucker Carlson, “Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes,” The Tucker Carlson Show, October 27, 2025, YouTube video, 2:18:46, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efBB0D4tf1Y. During the broadcast, Fuentes called for America to be “pro-white” and Christian, claiming that “white people have a special heritage here, as Americans.”Andrew Lapin, “Tucker Carlson hosts Nick Fuentes for a friendly conversation about ‘these Zionist Jews,’” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October 28, 2025, https://www.jta.org/2025/10/28/politics/tucker-carlson-hosts-nick-fuentes-for-a-friendly-conversation-about-these-zionist-jews. Fuentes’s appearance drew widespread criticism and accusations that Carlson was platforming antisemitism. Republican commentators and activists y condemned both Fuentes and Carlson (the latter for inviting Fuentes onto his show).Andrew Kaczynski and Steve Contorno, “Fierce backlash within GOP after Tucker Carlson gives White nationalist Nick Fuentes a platform,” CNN, November 6, 2025, https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.

Also Known As

• Nicholas J. Fuentes Nicholas J. Fuentes, X account, accessed November 4, 2025, https://x.com/nickjfuentes.
• @NickJFuentesNicholas J. Fuentes, X account, accessed November 4, 2025, https://x.com/nickjfuentes.
• @spookygoblin8Jacob Knutson, “Twitter re-bans white nationalist Nick Fuentes after he makes new account,” Axios, October 30, 2022, https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/twitter-bans-nick-fuentes-new-account.