A pro-Trump influencer who recently interviewed Tucker Carlson celebrated on Saturday that the former president got the "nod" from Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, but the video dates back to at least 2018, according to various news reports.
Tim Pool, who recently got Carlson to say that he wouldn't support Trump if Nikki Haley was the V.P. on the ticket, posted on social media that "Trump got the farrakhan nod." With that caption, Pool shared someone else's video in which Farrakhan is seen praising Trump and calling him an "anomaly."
The video is not new, as is implied by Pool, but instead comes from 2018, when Farrakhan appeared at Chicago radio station WGCI, according to Haaretz.
"Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, changed his opinion of U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend while appearing at Chicago radio station WGCI on a program titled 'The Morning Takeover,'" the outlet reported at the time. It added that the "Nation of Islam leader said that while Trump may not have intended to help his cause, he has done so by 'destroying the enemies of the Nation of Islam.'"
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In the comments of Pool's post, someone pointed out that Pool himself had negative things to say about Farrakhan a few years ago.
"You implied that Farrakhan was a 'Jew hating racial supremacist' so surely you think this endorsement is bad, right?" the verified user wrote. Indeed, Pool wrote, "Sprinkle in a lil Farrakhan and you got yourself some jew hating racial supremacists there" in a post from 2020.
Another user simply wrote, "This is a good thing, Tim?"
An anti-Trump account posted that Farrakhan wouldn't be the first antisemitic person to support Trump, while several others pointed out that the clip was old.
"I think this is an old clip. Can anyone confirm," one person wrote.
Yes, yes we can.
