Laura Loomer speaking with attendees at a "No Eminent Domain! No Carbon Pipelines!" rally at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr)
MAGA influencer Laura Loomer faced backlash online after she concluded that Gov. Kathy Hochul's (D-NY) cashmere scarf with a houndstooth pattern was an Islamic threat.
"Another thing the media didn’t catch during @ZohranKMamdani’s swearing in ceremony yesterday," Loomer wrote in a Friday post on X. "Why did New York Governor @GovKathyHochul wear a Palestinian keffiyeh to Mamdani’s ceremony, where he took his oath of office on a Quran?"
"Is Kathy Hochul converting to Islam?" she asked.
Commenters quickly pointed out that Loomer was mistaken.
"It's called houndstooth," one person observed.
"Or, much more likely, it's a houndstooth scarf. Here's one from Amazon that's pretty similar," Tirah Att wrote. "You need to get some serious help - you're out of control."
"I hate Hochul as much as anybody, but that’s just a houndstooth pattern," a commenter said.
"It’s a houndstooth scarf you moron," another person noted.