All posts tagged "Maga Influencer"

A MAGA influencer has blended politics with OnlyFans, using the adult platform to court right-wing male followers in a striking new way, according to a report Thursday.

Will Sommer, senior reporter at The Bulwark, detailed how Savanna Cannon has emerged as a new MAGA personality, sharing her views on TikTok and Instagram. She's referred to people who disagree with her as "braindead" and wears a Charlie Kirk "Freedom" shirt. In her videos, she "looks and sounds like she came straight out of the Turning Point USA or PragerU conservative influencer pipelines."

"But Cannon has one big advantage over her rival conservative commentators: she sits in an unusual way," Sommer explained....

MAGA is having another meltdown over a Hollywood casting choice, this time concerning an adaptation of a classic cartoon.

The latest meltdown is sparked by news that Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson will star as Betty Boop in a live-action film, according to reporting by the Daily Beast.

MAGA accounts called it "race swapping," though Brunson's defenders noted her resemblance to Betty Boop, the iconic, big-eyed cartoon character from the early 20th century. ...

Trump's "Minister of Tourism" was met with brutal ridicule when he announced his new social media account on X.

Special Presidential Envoy Nick Adams, who was a former MAGA influencer before the administration hired him, joined X on Saturday with a post saying, "Honored to serve President Trump as the first-ever U.S. 'Minister of Tourism' — representing travel and tourism, as well as brand ambassador for the greatest country on Earth."

Adams wasn't given a warm welcome to X, where he faced criticism for his post and the way he phrased his job title, "Minister of Tourism."...

MAGA influencer CJ Pearson has reportedly registered as a foreign agent to assist the government in the Bahamas in strengthening its ties to the Trump administration.

Bloomberg Government first reported this week that Justice Department filings showed that Pearson registered as a lobbyist for the Bahamas ahead of the country's parliamentary elections next month.

The 23-year-old Georgia conservative who first went viral as a child scolding former President Barack Obama on YouTube has parlayed a decade of MAGA cheerleading into a full-blown influence operation — complete with a Hollywood talent agency deal, a Time 100 Creators nod, and a political influence firm called RightInfluence that he uses to, in his own words, "move culture, shift sentiment, and win online."...

A rogue conservative influencer is accusing a married, sitting member of Congress from Florida of sleeping with her ex-boyfriend, whom she only identified as a well-known conservative personality from Tampa Bay.

"To this day, they both insist that nothing happened," influencer Ashley St. Clair said in an X post on Wednesday. The unnamed Congresswoman "got very upset for telling this story because it insinuates that she cheated on her husband."

St. Clair said that her relationship with her then-boyfriend was strained at the time because he moved her to Tampa Bay, smoked kratom and marijuana, had soft hands, and put mud on his truck to uphold a conservative facade, among other reasons detailed in a nearly 10-minute video. ...

A former MAGA loyalist claimed there was a coordinated strategy among Republicans to fast-track President Donald Trump's ballroom after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, according to an analyst on Monday.

Salon's Sophia Tesfaye described how in the wake of the shooting, the right immediately pivoted to repeating Trump's talking points about his desire to complete his ballroom, while the left shifted to conspiracy theories around the shooting.

"The speed and uniformity of the response would be striking under any circumstances, even after Trump himself had laid the groundwork for using security concerns to justify construction of the White House ballroom just a few weeks before Saturday night’s events," Tesfaye wrote. ...