laura loomer new yorker profile

Favorite quotes:

"Like Cassandra, the Trojan priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology who was cursed to utter true prophecies, I have been given the gift of prophecy. But I am a prophet of doom whose warnings of disaster are condemned and ignored.”

“I don’t want to say, ‘Oh, President Trump is me,’ or, ‘I see myself in Trump.’ But I do. I mean, I do. Every time I listen to him speak, I feel like I’m listening to myself speak to myself. Does that make sense?”

Trump, she insisted, is the only “other person on this planet who I think can actually empathize with me and who I can actually empathize with. I really do believe that.” He recently told her, “You’re great, and you’re difficult.”

Loomer has described her work by quoting Plato: “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” She radiated a sense of weariness that this grand task, of being Trump’s protector and soothsayer, fell to her.

“An impossible nightmare of woke from which I barely escaped without having my life ruined and almost going to jail.”

Trump had occasionally reposted her content on Truth Social, and she had screamed at him from rope lines to get his attention, but this was the first time that they met formally. “He’s my favorite person in the world,” Loomer told me.

“I’m not saying that I’m an adviser, but I can manifest it,” she said. “Do you understand what I’m saying? I’m manifesting it.”

Over oysters, when my questions were met with silence as she typed on her phone, her boyfriend said, “She can’t hear you—she’s locked in.”