1. Nicholas Joseph Fuentes was born on August 18,1998 and is an American far-right political pundit, activist, and live streamer who promotes white supremacist, misogynistic, and antisemitic views.
55 Facts About Nick Fuentes
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Nick Fuentes has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories against Jews and called for a "holy war" against them, and has denied the Holocaust.
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Nick Fuentes has been described as a neo-Nazi by various sources.
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Nick Fuentes identifies as a member of the incel movement, a supporter of authoritarianism, an integralist, and a Christian nationalist.
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In 2020, seeking to establish a white supremacist conference to rival the Conservative Political Action Conference, Nick Fuentes began holding the annual America First Political Action Conference.
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Nick Fuentes attended the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and was an attendee and speaker at events preceding the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
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Nick Fuentes has encouraged the use of jokes and irony among white nationalist groups, stating that it "is so important for giving a lot of cover and plausible deniability for our views".
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Nicholas Joseph Nick Fuentes was born on August 18,1998, in Chicago, Illinois to William and Lauren.
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Nick Fuentes lived in La Grange Park, Illinois, and attended Lyons Township High School, where he was president of the student council.
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Nick Fuentes studied introductory international relations and politics during his freshman year at Boston University.
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Nick Fuentes dropped out in 2017 after completing his freshman year, stating that he received threats for attending the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Nick Fuentes said he would transfer to Auburn University in fall 2017, saying Auburn "has better weather and better people" but ultimately "did not confirm his enrollment".
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Nick Fuentes identifies as an incel, although some of his supporters have criticized him for being a "voluntary celibate" after he admitted that he kissed a girl while he was in high school.
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Allegedly, Nick Fuentes pepper-sprayed Rose before pushing her down his front steps and taking her phone, which she was using to film the interaction.
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Nick Fuentes made a statement on his X account, writing, "Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently doxed on this platform".
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Nick Fuentes began commentating on politics through a local radio and TV station hosted by his high school, where he espoused mainstream conservative views.
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In February 2022, Nick Fuentes claimed that he was fired by RSBN CEO Joe Seales.
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Nick Fuentes co-hosted the Nationalist Review podcast with another white nationalist, James Allsup, until January 2018.
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Nick Fuentes has repeatedly criticized Turning Point USA and its founder, Charlie Kirk, accusing them of betraying Donald Trump by advocating in favor of mass legal immigration, support for foreign aid for Israel, and queer issues.
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Nick Fuentes has characterized the campaign as a grassroots effort to expose TPUSA as ideologically inconsistent with the ideology espoused by Donald Trump and other right-wing populists.
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In December 2019, Nick Fuentes approached the conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro, who was walking by with his wife and young children, outside a TPUSA event in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Nick Fuentes had asked Shapiro why he had given a speech at Stanford University attacking Nick Fuentes.
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Nick Fuentes has been supported by the conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, who agreed to speak at his first annual America First Political Action Conference in February 2020 and again at his second conference in February 2021.
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Nick Fuentes hosted his second annual AFPAC event in February 2021, speaking alongside Malkin and the politicians Steve King and Paul Gosar.
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Nick Fuentes was again removed from CPAC in July 2021 for harassing a journalist.
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Nick Fuentes hosted his third annual AFPAC event in February 2022.
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At a pro-Trump protest in Washington, DC, in December 2020, Nick Fuentes led a crowd to chant "Destroy the GOP" and encouraged them to sit out the United States Senate special runoff election in Georgia.
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Nick Fuentes was among a group of far-right activists and groups who received large donations in bitcoin from a French donor on December 8,2020.
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Nick Fuentes received 13.5 bitcoin, which was by far the largest share.
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Nick Fuentes replied that he did, calling Trump an "amazing" president when he was unrestrained.
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Nick Fuentes is unapologetic about associating with overt neo-Nazis, and unwilling to issue full-throated denunciations of antisemitism.
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On this matter, on Kanye West and that other unacceptable guest [Nick Fuentes], I think it's not merely unacceptable, it's just wrong.
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Nick Fuentes has stated that his goal is to turn the Republican Party into "a truly reactionary party".
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Nick Fuentes strongly opposes immigration, which he believes is a demographic threat to the United States.
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Tess Owen, a reporter for Vice, has written that Nick Fuentes "has positioned himself as the kingpin of the ultranationalist youth movement".
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Nick Fuentes has spoken positively of "a tidal wave of white identity" following his attendance at the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally and sees America's "white demographic core" as central to the country's identity.
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Nick Fuentes wants the United States to be a white, Christian country and has specified that it is not a "Judeo-Christian" country.
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In January 2019, Nick Fuentes aired a monologue in which he implied he questions the death toll of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
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Nick Fuentes later disputed that he had ever denied the Holocaust, calling his monologue a "lampoon".
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Nick Fuentes has said, "You're either a Catholic or you're with the Jews," and he has voiced support for a Catholic government and Catholic media.
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Nick Fuentes has described himself as a reactionary who supports autocracy, Catholic monarchy, just war, the Crusades, and the Inquisition.
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Nick Fuentes has frequently spread conspiracy theories and misinformation surrounding the FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines.
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In December 2020, Nick Fuentes reportedly had an altercation on a flight over mask mandates.
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Nick Fuentes has spoken out against the "LGBT agenda", and has described transgender people and same-sex marriage as "deviancy".
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In July 2023, appearing on the Fresh and Fit Podcast, Nick Fuentes stated that women were "baby machines" because "that's what their brains are about".
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Nick Fuentes has praised the conservative religious aspect of Taliban governance.
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Nick Fuentes began calling for his followers to "bring the energy with memes, edits, replies, and trolls" aimed at pressuring the Trump campaign to adopt further-right positions on race and immigration, as well as urging Donald Trump to fire his campaign advisors, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles.
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Nick Fuentes' show, America First, has attracted a cult following, which Nick Fuentes refers to as the "Groypers" or the "Groyper Army".
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Nick Fuentes cites the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump as an inspiration for America First.
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Nick Fuentes has been deplatformed from various social media websites, payment processors, and other services.
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Nick Fuentes had previously been banned from Twitch and from Reddit.
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In January 2020, Time reported that Nick Fuentes was the most-viewed live streamer on the DLive platform.
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Nick Fuentes claimed that his bank account had been frozen, that he had been placed on a federal no-fly list, and that he had been banned from Airbnb, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Twitter was among the last mainstream social media sites to ban Nick Fuentes, indefinitely suspending his verified account in July 2021.
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Nick Fuentes has been banned from financial and e-commerce services, including PayPal, Venmo, Patreon, Shopify, Stripe, Streamlabs, and Coinbase.