Laura Loomer

Laura Elizabeth Loomer (born May 21, 1993) is an American far-right political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality.

Born in Tucson, Arizona, Loomer has worked as an activist for several organizations, including Project Veritas, the Geller Report, Rebel News, and InfoWars. She has described herself as being "pro-white nationalist" and a "proud Islamophobe", repeatedly making racist and anti-Muslim statements in public settings. She currently hosts a show, Loomer Unleashed, streaming weekly on Rumble.

Loomer has been banned on numerous social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and formerly Twitter (now X, where she has since been reinstated ), as well as on payment processors, and vehicle-for-hire and food delivery mobile apps, for violating policies on hate speech and misinformation. Loomer has been banned and removed from a number of events, and has had her press credentials revoked for alleged harassment and causing disturbances.

Loomer was the Republican Party nominee to represent Florida's 21st congressional district in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, and lost to the Democratic Party candidate Lois Frankel. She ran in the Republican primary for Florida's 11th congressional district in 2022, losing to incumbent Daniel Webster. By September 2024, some Trump supporters and others had expressed concerns about Loomer's continuing presence around and influence on Trump.

During the second presidency of Donald Trump starting in 2025, Loomer emerged as an increasingly influential actor, using her social media platform to call for the firing of officials she deems insufficiently loyal to Trump. In early April 2025, reports emerged that Loomer influenced President Trump to dismiss more than half a dozen national security officials due to her suspicions of their disloyalty to him, and that Loomer had continued to advocate for additional firings. Loomer was for years a critic of American military aid to Ukraine, but reversed her position in July 2026, saying she had been misled by Russian propaganda; she subsequently visited Kyiv, where she interviewed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. on May 21, 1993. Loomer's father is a rheumatologist, and her mother is a nurse. She stated that she grew up in a "very violent household", primarily because her younger brother suffered from mental illness. Her parents broke up when she was 12 years old and she was sent to a boarding school shortly thereafter. She attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, leaving after one semester; she said she felt targeted for being conservative.

Activities 2015–2017 In March 2015, Loomer used a concealed video camera to record her conversations with Barry University officials discussing the idea of starting a club called "Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria". The school apparently asked only that the club's name be changed to "Students in Support of the Middle East". James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, a right-wing organization known for producing secretly recorded and deceptively edited undercover audio and video investigations about media organizations and left-leaning groups, released the video of the encounter, Shortly thereafter, the university suspended Loomer for violating the student code of conduct and a professor shown in the video filed criminal charges against her for recording him without his knowledge. At the time, Loomer was an honors student in her senior year and the president of Barry University's Young Republicans Club.

According to a Hillary Clinton campaign official, Loomer and two other women posing as Clinton supporters attempted to "entrap" campaign workers into accepting illegal cash donations in July 2015. The official said the campaign had complied with the law.

On November 8, 2016, the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Loomer, as part of a Project Veritas stunt, went to a polling station dressed in a burqa and asked for a ballot under the name of Huma Abedin. She put a burqa on the Fearless Girl statue at its original Bowling Green location in lower Manhattan. A few days later, Loomer left Project Veritas for the Canadian far-right website The Rebel Media. The Delacorte Theatre production reimagined Julius Caesar as Donald Trump with a Slovenian-accented actress as his wife, Calpurnia. Before being escorted offstage by security, Loomer shouted, "This is violence against Donald Trump! Stop the normalization of political violence against the right! This is unacceptable!" Loomer was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. Earlier in the week, performances of the play had elicited criticism for depicting women and minorities perpetrating the violent assassination of Trump as U.S. president.

The Public Theater New York responded by saying although they are "champions" of the First Amendment, the disruption was caused by "social media". Appearing on the Fox News program Hannity a few days after her arrest, Loomer said she knew that disrupting the play would result in criminal charges against her. During the interview, she objected to the depiction of Caesar in the play and accused the left of "systematically and programmatically" using "free expression as a pretext to incite violence".

A "Free Laura" website, soliciting donations for her arrest expenses, had been purchased by Loomer's employer, Rebel Media owner Ezra Levant, six hours before the play started. Loomer also promoted a crowdfunding page for donations, which received $12,385 from 241 contributors: more money than the normal penalties for the charges she was facing.

In August 2017, she was one of several counter-jihad activists who were appointed "Shillman Fellows", with Robert J. Shillman contributing to her salary.

In September 2017, after three months, she resigned from Rebel Media.

Since then, she has occasionally reported for the American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website InfoWars, as well as the Geller Report and the American Freedom Defense Initiative.

2019 On January 14, 2019, Loomer convinced several men she met in a Home Depot parking lot, who she claimed were undocumented, to jump the fence with her at Nancy Pelosi's Napa, California, home. The group set up a tent on Pelosi's lawn to protest immigration before being removed by police. They were not arrested. A few days later, Loomer attempted to interrupt a speaker at the 2019 Women's March in Washington, D.C., appearing onstage to call the Women's March a "Nazi" organization. As she was escorted off by security, she shouted, "What about the Jews?" in an apparent reference to the national organizers' recent anti-semitism controversy. On January 30, 2019, Loomer and others jumped the wall surrounding the California Governor's Mansion in Sacramento. They wore Mexican serapes and sombreros, with one wearing a large false mustache, and said they were protesting Governor Gavin Newsom's stance on immigration. They were arrested, given citations, and released within a few hours. Later that day, the group provoked a confrontation outside a Mexican restaurant in downtown Sacramento, live-streaming the event.

2020–2022 Loomer unsuccessfully campaigned twice for a seat in the US House of Representatives during this period. See the section on her campaigns below.

2023–2024 In 2023, Loomer began her Rumble show, Loomer Unleashed. The content of the show includes monologues, pranks, and confronting politicians in public.

In 2024, Loomer continued to support the campaign of Donald Trump, telling The Washington Post, "I'm happy to dedicate all my time to helping Trump, because if Trump doesn't get back in, I don't have anything." She was brought as a guest by Trump to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the September 10 presidential debate with opponent Kamala Harris. The following day, Loomer attended events alongside Trump commemorating the September 11 attacks. Loomer had previously endorsed claims that 9/11 "was an inside job".

According to anonymous sources on the Trump presidential campaign in 2024, Loomer reportedly influenced Trump to publicly endorse various false conspiracy theories, including the claim that Kamala Harris hid her black heritage and the Springfield pet-eating hoax alleging Haitian immigrants were eating other people's household pets. Loomer also posted a tweet referencing stereotypes of Indians, saying that if Harris, who is half-East Indian, were elected president, "the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center." Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right member of the House of Representatives, condemned this remark as "appalling and extremely racist".

In 2024, as part of a promotional deal for a pet food brand, Pawsitive, Loomer filmed herself eating dog food on her Rumble channel.

Days before the 2024 presidential election, Loomer accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of misrepresenting a fundraiser, in which Kennedy was seeking donations to support Donald Trump's election campaign. Loomer claimed the money would be spent on re-payments to the Democratic party given Kennedy's previous primary run with the party. This resulted in online backlash from members of the MAGA movement, including Roger Stone.

2025–present During Donald Trump's second term as president, Loomer has emerged as an actor of considerable influence. of the president, so much so that her name has been used as a verb—"Loomered", meaning to be fired or damaged in some way for alleged disloyalty. (Antonia Hitchens writes that Loomer's Loomer has described her role as no different from that of an investigative reporter who informs the public, or as similar to anti-communist senator Joseph McCarthy, whom she admires.) On April 2, Loomer had an Oval Office meeting with President Trump in which she argued that several of his staffers were not sufficiently committed to his agenda. During the meeting, Loomer said Deputy National Security Adviser Alex Nelson Wong once worked for the 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, while his wife had clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor and was involved in the prosecutions of January 6 U.S. Capitol rioters. She also criticized a dozen other aides. The next day, more than a half-dozen members on the United States National Security Council, including the senior director for intelligence Brian Walsh and the senior director for international organizations Maggie Dougherty, along with the director of the National Security Agency General Timothy D. Haugh and his deputy Wendy Noble, were dismissed over the issue of their loyalty towards Trump.

2022 In September 2021, Loomer announced her candidacy for Florida's 11th district in 2022. She tried to unseat Republican Rep. Daniel Webster in the primary election. Loomer had initially declared her intent to run again in the 21st district. as well as Roger Stone and Michael Flynn. She lost the primary election on August 23, 2022, with 44.2% to Webster's 51.1%, but refused to concede. In an election night speech Loomer said "I'm not conceding because I'm a winner, the reality is our Republican party is broken to its core." Loomer railed against unspecified voter fraud and "big-tech election interference".

Bans and removals Loomer has been banned by numerous providers, services, and events. In 2021 she published a book, Loomered: How I became the most banned woman in the world, describing these experiences.

From apps and online platforms Blogging platform Medium banned Loomer in February 2017 after expanding its platform policies to ban posting disinformation and expanding its policies against hate speech. Loomer was banned from both Uber and Lyft in November 2017 after a day-long anti-Muslim , which included tweets about not being able to find a "non Muslim cab or @Uber @lyft driver". In February 2019, Loomer was banned from PayPal, GoFundMe, and Venmo. In response, she said that "left wing terrorists and tech tyrants" were "trying to shut [her] down" and that she would "stop at nothing to make sure justice is served for the way Silicon Valley has disenfranchised me, falsely accusing me of being a white supremacist, a Nazi, anti-Muslim, a racist, a bigot, and every other smear in the book." In May 2021, she said she was banned from the social media app Clubhouse hours after joining.

In December 2022, after Elon Musk bought Twitter, Loomer's previously banned Twitter account was reinstated.

From events Loomer used press credentials to attend the March 2018 trial of Noor Salman, the wife of the perpetrator of the June 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting. Her credentials were revoked after she harassed Salman's family; when she returned to the trial the next day, she was removed by a U.S. Marshal. Republican representative Billy Long began a mock auction chant, pretending he was selling Loomer's mobile phone, until she was escorted out. The incident generated considerable laughter and applause from the audience. In October 2018, police escorted Loomer from a campaign event for Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida. In particular, she heckled CNN reporter Oliver Darcy with questions about internet censorship and social media bans.

In 2021, Loomer again confronted Dorsey at the Bitcoin 2021 conference, alleging he had censored people and interfered with elections; she was removed from the event.

Lawsuits In 2018, after Loomer was banned by various social media companies, she sued Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The lawsuit, in which she was represented by right-wing activist lawyer Larry Klayman, alleged that the platforms had collaborated to suppress conservative speech. The district court dismissed the case, and the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal; the courts held that social media companies could not violate the First Amendment because they are not governmental bodies. In 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States denied Loomer's petition to hear the case.

After Twitter banned Loomer in 2018, she and her company, Illoominate Media, sued the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), claiming it had conspired with Twitter to ban her. The lawsuit was thrown out after Nathan Bernard, known for pranking prominent alt-right personalities, admitted he had fabricated the rumor that CAIR was behind the ban.

In 2019, Loomer filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, alleging that during the disruption of an August 2018 campaign event by Loomer and others, Tlaib "violently grabbed" Loomer's cellphone while Loomer was questioning her about foreign policy. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the "video of the incident includes audio of Loomer asking Tlaib if she was 'willing to admit... that Hamas is a terrorist organization.

In 2022, Loomer again sued Facebook and Twitter, alleging their anti-hate speech policies constitute racketeering. This suit was also dismissed, on grounds of both res judicata and Section 230. The dismissal was upheld on appeal in 2025 and the Supreme Court declined to hear Loomer's further appeal.

In 2024, Loomer sued Bill Maher and HBO for defamation after Maher suggested that she and Trump were having an extramarital affair. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in April 2026.

Views Loomer has been described by various sources as far-right, a white nationalist (including by herself), as well as alt-right, and alt-lite, and has described herself as a proud Islamophobe. Cultural critic James Wolcott called her a "raging zealot... intent on becoming the agent provocateur". Loomer has denounced the alt-right and publicly repudiated white supremacist Richard B. Spencer (who coined the term) and refused to share a stage with him. In 2017, a tweet by Spencer referenced a number of associated individuals, classifying them as the "alt-lite". This included Loomer, who he characterized as a "Zionist fanatic." However, Loomer has indicated she supports white nationalism, claiming it is distinct from white supremacy and that white nationalists "need effective leaders—people who aren't Richard Spencer, people who aren't James Allsup—to effectively convey that message."

Donald Trump, who The New York Times reported wanted to hire Loomer for a campaign role, has described her as "very opinionated", while U.S. representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed she is "mentally unstable and a documented liar", despite previously endorsing Loomer in her 2022 Florida midterm race. Loomer and Greene have shared heated arguments online, with Loomer claiming Greene is "no longer an ally to America First", as well as questioning her Christianity, loyalty to Trump, and lack of criticism of rival presidential candidate Ron DeSantis.

Trump's aides are said to have concerns over Loomer's inflammatory statements and support for the Republican Party's fringes. Loomer considers herself a "Trump loyalist" and has described DeSantis as a tyrant, personally attacking him online.

Russo-Ukrainian war Loomer previously held anti-Ukrainian views, blaming Ukraine for starting the Russo-Ukrainian war while criticizing American support for Ukraine's defense from Russian invasion. She had also declared Ukraine "a country full of Nazi apologists" and "led by a Jihadi apologist", echoing Russian talking points. she also contributed stories to RT.

By July 2026, however, her stance had reversed. She advocated for the Trump administration to "be pro-Ukraine in this fight" and provide military aid, especially in response to ties between Russia and Iran. She described herself on Twitter at the time as a "#ProudIslamophobe" and called for a complete and permanent ban on Muslims entering the United States.

In August 2018, Loomer disrupted a congressional campaign event for Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar, which Rashida Tlaib attended. Loomer shouted questions that implied that Tlaib was antisemitic. In November of that year, Twitter banned Loomer from its platform for violating its rules against hateful behavior. According to Loomer, she was banned for a tweet about Omar in which Loomer called her "anti-Jewish," and a member of a religion in which "homosexuals are oppressed," and women are "abused" and "forced to wear the hijab". A week after the ban, she handcuffed herself to a door at Twitter's New York City headquarters in protest while wearing a yellow "Jude" patch. After approximately two hours, police removed the handcuffs with a bolt cutter at her request. Loomer was not arrested.

In February 2019, Loomer traveled to Minnesota with Jacob Wohl, a right-wing perpetrator of Internet fraud, and Ali Alexander, a far-right activist. The group said they were "investigating" whether Omar had married her brother so that he could obtain U.S. citizenship, a baseless rumor that had circulated in Minnesota politics since 2016. Wohl, Loomer, and Alexander were unable to find any immigration irregularities by Omar. At that time, PayPal banned Loomer from any further use of their service.

After Zohran Mamdani won the 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, Loomer attacked Mamdani over his Muslim beliefs, saying that "There will be another 9/11 in NYC and Zohran Mamdani will be to blame." She further predicted that New York City "will be destroyed" and that Muslims would be "committing jihad all over New York." Loomer also accused Mamdani of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and suggested that the Trump administration could criminally charge him, falsely accusing Mamdani of terrorism. In 2025, Loomer asked Representatives Randy Fine and Andy Ogles about banning Muslims from running for public office.

After a mass shooting was perpetrated against the Islamic Center of San Diego in May 2026, Loomer posted a series of controversial posts downplaying the attacks, including doubting the shooting's legitimacy, falsely claiming that the mosque attendants "want us all to be killed", and calling for the Islamic Center to be raided by ICE and the FBI. Loomer said the victims were undeserving of sympathy and called for the deportation of "every Muslim in America."

In May 2026, Loomer said "Maybe we need another 9/11" in order to stop Muslims from being "involved in our political process in America."

White nationalism Loomer has described herself as "pro-white nationalism", stating her belief that "liberals and left-wing globalist Marxist Jews" don't understand "a difference between white nationalism and white supremacy". Loomer has described her belief that "this country really was built as the white Judeo-Christian ethnostate" and that "immigration and all these calls for diversity, it's starting to destroy this country." In 2022, Loomer spoke at the annual conference of white supremacist publication American Renaissance. During this speech, Loomer referred to herself as a "white advocate" and called for a ten-year moratorium on immigration. Loomer has praised American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor and says she opposes "anti-white racism and anti-white hatred". She has additionally attended events with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and has spoken at Fuentes' white nationalist gathering America First Political Action Conference. Fuentes supported Loomer's congressional candidacy, during which Loomer and Fuentes shared a toast calling for "the hostile takeover of the Republican Party." However, Loomer later broke with Fuentes after he accused her of being an Israeli spy and told his followers not to vote for Donald Trump. Loomer has accepted support from white supremacist Peter Brimelow, founder of the website VDARE, an anti-immigration site associated with white supremacy, white nationalism, and the alt-right. Loomer has also expressed support for Christian nationalism. In an interview, Loomer said, in reference to birthright citizenship "I think you can only serve in office if you were actually born in this country. Not a birthright citizen anchor baby like Nikki Haley, but I don't want people like that in our country let alone in our congress."

Loomer has described herself as a nationalist and stated that immigrants who refuse to assimilate are a threat to American heritage. In response to a news story about the drowning of 2,000 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Loomer expressed her approval of the migrant deaths, tweeting, "Good. Here's to 2,000 more." According to Media Matters, Loomer has endorsed the white nationalist Great Replacement theory, accusing the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of "facilitating the invasion of America", and has stated that "so many rich Jews have a fixation on trying to destroy America." Asked in 2017 by Haaretz about her views as a Jew participating in an "anti-sharia" event where the neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa was visibly present, Loomer replied, "Oh, this is like an identitarian group. I'm not totally familiar, but I know they believe in preserving white European culture; there is nothing wrong with that, and they are nationalist." Loomer called for the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, to be designated a domestic terrorist organization, in response to the ADL cataloguing the Christian Identity movement, a white supremacist and antisemitic religious ideology, as extremist.

In July 2025, Loomer praised the opening of Alligator Alcatraz, an immigration detention facility in Florida, tweeting "Feeding illegals to the gators. We need more of this energy." Loomer further tweeted that the alligators surrounding the detention center were "guaranteed at least 65 million meals," an apparent reference to the entire Latino population of the United States, which was around 65 million in 2025.

Race Separate from Loomer's belief in white nationalism, she has made a number of public remarks, with regards to black individuals and the black community in the United States that have been characterized as racist. Most prominently, she has referred to the black elected officials of the Democratic party, Kamala Harris, Fani Willis, and Letitia James as "DEI Shaniquas". Loomer also separately referred to Jasmine Crockett as a "GHETTO DEI Shaniqua." During a Spaces event on X in June 2024, Loomer described an event hosted by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis as "smell[ing] like fried chicken and marijuana − it was gross. Stereotypes exist for a reason, that's all I'll say".

Loomer has referred to Ilhan Omar, who is Somali-American, as a "black dog" whose "district is literally Somalia." Loomer falsely claimed that Omar's relatives "sleep in caves and have sex with goats." Loomer said that Somalis are "so inbred that they have an IQ that is legally classified as mental retardation." In August 2026, Loomer posted that Ketanji Brown Jackson, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar were "ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black BITCHES who are completely unfit for the power they hold." Loomer also wrote that Florida senate candidate Angie Nixon "is a ghetto, Black, communist...I called you a ghetto bitch, because you are, Angie, and your record proves it. But you speak Ebonics though, so maybe I need to bark at you and tug your leash and then you'll finally understand."

On April 20, 2026, Loomer called Candace Owens a "nappy-headed Black Bitch."

COVID-19 Loomer downplayed the severity of COVID-19, writing in December 2020, "I hope I get COVID just so I can prove to people I've had bouts of food poisoning that are more serious and life-threatening than a hyped-up virus". In September 2021, she said she had become ill with the virus and was battling it with a variety of preparations, including some shown to be ineffective. Loomer maintained that COVID-19 vaccines are "unsafe and ineffective" and said that she would refuse to get one in the future.

Democrats According to Media Matters, Loomer has said that "if you don't vote for Donald Trump, then you just hate this country." Loomer claims that the Democratic Party is supportive of Jews "getting wiped off the face of the Earth" and that Jews who vote for Democrats "might as well just go put yourself in a gas chamber yourself if this is how you're gonna behave." Responding to interviewer Tim Pool's suggestion that Donald Trump make lists of Democrats who should be put in jail, Loomer said that Trump should have these Democrats executed for treason.

Catholicism Loomer disapproved of the selection of Pope Leo XIV, who she described as "Just another Marxist puppet in the Vatican" and "anti-Trump, anti-Maga, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis". After the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops condemned Trump's deportation policies, Loomer again attacked the Pope as "Marxist" and said "It's sad to see the Catholic Church work so hard to try to destroy our country."

Personal life

Loomer became engaged to her boyfriend in 2025. Her engagement was publicly announced by Donald Trump at the White House Christmas party in December 2025, as Trump introduced Loomer to party guests.

Loomer is Jewish.