Laura Loomer Has the Dumbest Possible Conspiracy Theory for the Anti-Trump Protests

Hundreds of thousands of Americans protested against President Donald Trump this past play successful cities large and tiny crossed the country. But radical similar billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing influencer Laura Loomer are convinced these protests couldn’t perchance beryllium organic. In fact, Loomer has claimed that she recovered grounds the protests are being coordinated by shadowy overseas entities. And her conspiracy theories would beryllium perfectly hilarious if Loomer wasn’t wielding existent powerfulness wrong the White House close present by getting apical information officials fired.

“I person exclusively confirmed that 1 of the busses utilized contiguous to autobus Muslim and radicals leftist protesters into Washington DC to protestation President Trump is called SUMMER BUS TOUR INC!” Loomer tweeted connected Saturday. “The registered cause for the autobus is CHINESE.”

SAINT PAUL, MN, US – APRIL 5: Thousands stitchery successful Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States to protestation President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s policies, joining implicit 1,400 rallies crossed the US. © Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images

Loomer’s tweet appeared to suggest that the proprietor of the autobus being of Chinese descent was someway grounds that the Chinese authorities was backing protests against Trump.

“The autobus is registered retired of Massachusetts and the Chinese registered agents’ sanction is Yuxiu Wang! It appears that Chinese individuals and extremist Muslims are present moving unneurotic to march successful enactment of HAMAS and ANTIFA connected Capitol Hill. America is nether attack!” Loomer wrote.

What precisely does Loomer mean by “radical Muslims” moving with “HAMAS and ANTIFA”? Loomer has a agelong past of anti-Muslim bigotry. The far-right influencer utilized to beforehand herself arsenic the astir “banned” pistillate successful the satellite aft being kicked disconnected galore online platforms, from Uber to PayPal, due to the fact that she truthful often spreads virulent hate. Back successful 2018, Loomer alternatively infamously chained herself to the doorway of an bureau gathering wherever Twitter employees worked to protestation her prohibition connected that platform. Loomer was reinstated successful Dec. 2022 aft Musk bought Twitter.

Boston, MA – April 5: Demonstrators waved signs and cheered during ‘Hands Off,’ an anti-Trump/Musk rally, astatine City Hall Plaza. © John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Again, Loomer’s absurd mentation that the nationality of idiosyncratic who owns a autobus would beryllium astir comic if she didn’t person existent proximity to power. Loomer reportedly got several apical authorities officials fired from their posts recently, including the manager of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. A apical Navy admiral astatine NATO office successful Brussels was the latest authoritative to suffer their job, making her the ninth idiosyncratic we’ve learned about, though it’s not wide if she was fired arsenic a nonstop effect of Loomer’s recommendations. Loomer appears to person lone taken nonstop recognition for the firing of the NSA director, though reporting from respective quality outlets suggests she was liable for astatine slightest 3 others. Whatever the nonstop number, Trump has intelligibly been listening to Loomer’s complaints, which mostly look to beryllium rooted successful unusual conspiracy theories with nary ground successful fact.

Loomer isn’t unsocial successful her absurd conspiracy theories astir the protesters being portion of immoderate artificial cognition alternatively than driven by existent choler astatine the Trump regime. Musk has often insisted that protests, particularly those against his car institution Tesla, are simply a merchandise of radical paid by Democratic donors. The billionaire oligarch is presently helping dismantle the U.S. national authorities with his alleged Department of Government Efficiency and insists that some peaceful protests and the arson astatine his dealerships astir the satellite are a merchandise of George Soros paying radical to reason him.

Musk adjacent shouted “say hullo to George for me” astatine a protester during his recent lawsuit successful Wisconsin, seemingly a notation to Soros. Ironically, Musk was determination to manus retired 2 $1 cardinal checks successful his bid to wage radical for voting successful that election. Musk was supporting a MAGA justice who mislaid his election, thing the billionaire besides suggested was someway rigged.

The Tesla CEO has besides repeatedly shared videos of protesters who are simply inarticulate and intelligibly shy astir being connected camera, pretending arsenic though their inability to present a speedy soundbite astir their motivations for protesting beryllium they indispensable beryllium actors.

“Based connected the videos I’ve seen truthful far, the worst fearfulness of the paid Tesla ‘protestors’ appears to beryllium having to get a existent job,” Musk tweeted connected March 30.

There’s nary grounds that immoderate of the radical protesting against Trump and Musk are paid to bash so. And fixed the hundreds of thousands who showed up astatine protests astir the state implicit the weekend, that would beryllium rather a measure to wage if you needed to ammunition retired wealth to each 1 of them.

Detroit, Michigan, 5 April 2025, ‘Hands Off’ objection protests the Trump Administration’s cuts to authorities programs. It was 1 of hundreds of coordinated protests crossed the United States. © Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images