Far-right activist Laura Loomer was ridiculed across social media after melting down over a World Cup match because Turkey — a majority-Muslim nation — was playing the United States.
"Everywhere you look these days, Islam is in your face," Loomer wrote on X late Thursday. She said she had hit her "daily quota of Islamic bulls—," then turned on the TV to find "Turkey is playing the US."
"I'm sick of it," she added.
It was the United States' final group game at the 2026 World Cup. Turkey won 3-2 on the final kick of the match.
"I can't stop laughing at this tweet," wrote media reporter Justin Baragona on Bluesky.
"Knowing looney tunes like Loomer are crashing out over football matches is objectively hilarious," added actor and writer Nazanin Nour.
"Just when I thought the invasion was getting under control, I'm seeing FOREIGN SOCCER PLAYERS popping up in cities across the nation," wrote Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson, satirizing her panic.
"It's almost as if you live in a world," wrote Wajahat Ali.
Loomer, who has called herself a self-described "proud Islamophobe" and described Islam as a "cancer," was banned from Uber and Lyft in 2017 after a tirade demanding non-Muslim drivers, and has repeatedly tied Muslims to terrorism.
In April, she defended a Truth Social post in which President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure amid the war with Iran and signed off "Praise be to Allah."
"President Trump is 100% right to completely humiliate these Iranian terrorists!" she wrote. "I wish Trump would kill every single one of these IRGC terrorists instead of just mocking them."
Loomer holds no formal White House job but has a Pentagon press pass and has become known as a "loyalty enforcer" whose name spawned a verb — "Loomered" — and after an Oval Office meeting last year, Trump fired six National Security Council officials she had flagged.
Comedian FreddyG kept his response short: "It's almost like she has a phobia."
