Laura Loomer calls herself a “proud Islamophobe.”
The far-right influencer and close ally of former President Donald Trump wears that label openly, even boasting about it to her massive following. Her reactivated X account now has 1.7 million followers, including some of the most powerful names in Washington: Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Stephen Miller, Trump’s top domestic policy adviser.
That’s not just influence—it’s access to the very core of America’s ruling establishment.
Recently, Loomer used that influence in an online pressure campaign that pushed the U.S. government to block visas for Palestinian children injured in Israel’s war on Gaza, children who were desperately in need of life-saving medical treatment.
With her urging, the so-called “Land of the Free” chose to deny help to dying kids—simply because Trump’s red-hat base, riled up by Loomer, threw a fit online. Laura Loomer is far from an ordinary internet provocateur. She has built a career on spreading outrage and controversial views, leading to bans from nearly every major platform, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even ride-sharing apps.
Describing herself on Twitter as an “investigative journalist and free spirit,” Loomer is a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and has openly called herself a “pro-white nationalist.”
Her history is filled with conspiracy-driven claims: she has alleged that the Parkland and Santa Fe school shootings were staged, linked the Parkland shooter to ISIS, dismissed mail bomb attempts as a “false flag,” and labeled the Buffalo mass shooting a Democratic hoax.
Loomer ran twice for Congress in Florida, losing both elections. In the meantime, she staged attention-grabbing protests, including handcuffing herself to Twitter’s headquarters and scaling Nancy Pelosi’s fence. Loomer ran for Congress in Florida—losing both times—but not before staging attention-grabbing stunts, like handcuffing herself to Twitter’s headquarters and scaling Nancy Pelosi’s fence.
Despite these theatrics, her influence has only grown under Trump, who has called her a “very good patriot” and enabled her to act as a shadow enforcer of loyalty. What was once fringe behavior is now shaping policy with real-world consequences—including for the children fleeing war-torn Gaza.
Misinformation with real consequences
Her campaign of false narratives gained traction when she returned to X (formerly Twitter) after her initial bans. Loomer spread conspiracy theories about a small group of Palestinian children who had arrived in Houston and San Francisco for medical treatment. She twisted the children’s sighs of relief into claims of “jihadi chants,” falsely asserting they were performing a “HAMAS terror whistle.” Yet despite her outrageous stunts, Loomer’s influence has only grown under Trump, who has praised her as a “very good patriot” and let her operate as a shadow enforcer of loyalty. What was once considered fringe behavior is now having real-world consequences—including for children fleeing the devastation in Gaza. She asked, “How does allowing Islamic immigrants into the U.S. fit with the America First policy?” She then went on to claim that more Palestinian children had arrived in Missouri and falsely asserted that “several U.S. senators and members of Congress” had texted her to express their outrage. Loomer also falsely claimed she had “exclusively obtained” the videos she shared, but in reality, one clip came from a medical aid charity’s public Instagram account and the other was taken from the Houston Chronicle’s YouTube channel. Loomer didn’t stop there. She ventured further into falsehoods, claiming that the injured children—including amputees arriving for prosthetic treatment—were “Islamic invaders from a terror hot zone,” and demanded to know which State Department official had “approved” their visas. “Is Rubio even aware of this?” Loomer asked, referring to the Secretary of State, who was at the time in Alaska meeting with Vladimir Putin.
No MAGA post would be complete without a fabricated statistic. In this case, Loomer falsely claimed that “95 percent of Gazans voted for Hamas.” The claim wasn’t just wrong—it was absurdly so, something a quick two-second Google search could have disproven if MAGA supporters looked beyond X and TruthSocial. Yet Loomer presented it with the unquestioning confidence typical of the red-hat crowd. In reality, Hamas won 44 percent of the party-list vote in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections across Gaza and the West Bank, losing three of Gaza’s five districts to the secular Fatah party—and there hasn’t been an election since.
But facts rarely matter when MAGA outrage will do the job.
As expected, Republican lawmakers quickly jumped on the bandwagon.
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