Elon Musk's baby mama and former conservative influencer described the secret world inside MAGA and "the Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago" in an interview this week with ex-GOP operative and The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson.
Ashley St. Clair, who was recruited to join Turning Point USA around age 19, spent nearly a decade as an insider with the right-wing group and revealed during an episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast this week what it was really like as a young person involved with MAGA elites and among the Mar-a-Lago crowd.
"Mar-a-Lago is the crème de la crème of social climbing and this clout chasing environment within MAGA because it's seen as elite and it's the president's home, and it's where all the fabulous events are," St. Clair said. "But really at its core, there's nothing fabulous about it. I keep calling it the 'White Trash White House' because these people have so much debauchery going on in their personal lives, and they wear these costumes."
She explained what her experience was like as she got involved with the group, including their recommendations on where to shop, who should do hair or nails, the recommended plastic surgeries, and more.
"They really have you transform into this Trumpian woman, and they're trying to get me to get plastic surgery... and there's affairs going on, there's gossip, there's rumors, which is fine, I'm sure you're going to find this in most elite circles," St. Clair said. "However, these people hold immense power, and they are making decisions in our government and in our admin based on their own debaucherous, toxic, dysfunctional relationships."
After the election, she started to notice a shift in who was selected to hold power, including "influencing administration picks, influencing who was at the state department based on who's sleeping with who and what the rumor mill is going on at Mar-a-Lago."
"That to me is why this is important because these are the people running our government and claiming to take a moral high ground and say 'the peak of degeneracy is trans and gay people' while they are snorting who knows what and sleeping with who knows who at Mar-a-Lago," she added.