“America First / Christ is King.” From his scant cover letter in X’s profile Nick Fuentes (27 years old) several issues can be deduced, such as his nationality and his Christian faith.
Nicholas J. Fuentesbetter known in the American scene as Nick Fuenteshe is a young man streamer y podcaster standard bearer of the MAGA movement, “Make America Great Again.”
Four years ago, he was one of the most banned faces in USA. Their accounts on all audiovisual platforms were canceled for “violation of hate speech policies” or for inciting protesters to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
A documentary produced in 2022 by a friend of Fuentes himself described him as “the most canceled man in the United States.” In his day, highlighted the figure of Adolf Hitler, calling him “great”. Now, he has returned to the networks and has more than a million followers on Elon Musk’s platform, X.
A few days ago, he recorded an interview for Youtube with the former commentator Fox News Tucker Carlson. The talk reached five million views. And Fuentes currently finds himself at the center of an online battle over the future of the American ultraconservative movement.
The rebirth of Fuentes after its cancellation on networks, after maintaining that Immigrants and “organized Jewry” conspire to exterminate the white raceaccording to the American newspaper The Washington Posthas sparked a dispute between influential conservative figures.
“The Jews control society. Women should keep their mouths shut. Most black people should be incarcerated and we would live in paradise. “It’s that simple,” said the young man.
The interview with Carlson generated some discomfort. The senator Ted CruzRepublican of Texas, and the co-founder of the newspaper The Daily Wire They reacted negatively. “Not to cowards like Tucker Carlsonwhich normalize garbage”.
No to the groypers.
No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash.
No to those who champion them.
No to demoralization.
No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit.
No to anti-Americanism.
No. pic.twitter.com/71TModtGWq— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 3, 2025
Others, however, defended the former commentator Fox News. Kevin Robertspresident of the Heritage Foundation, said the interview exploited “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.”
So far, senior Trump Administration officials have stayed out of the controversy over Fuentes. The vice president of the United States, JD Vanceindicated, through a post on his X profile, that “infighting is stupid” and urged conservatives to “work together” to defeat the Democrats.
I think it’s idiotic to overreact to a couple of elections in blue states, but a few thoughts:
1) Scot Pressler, TPUSA, and a bunch of others have been working hard to register voters. I said it in 2022, and I’ve said it repeatedly since: our coalition is “lower propensity” and…
— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 5, 2025
The controversy develops in the field of digital media, a field that often rivals that of traditional media. “He’s getting attention from people who six months ago would have turned around and run away from him,” he said. Jared Holtprincipal investigator at Open Measures, a platform for research on social media and online extremism.
The newspaper’s prominent opinion writer The New York Times Michelle Goldberg maintained in the newspaper that the influencer conservative shot two months ago, Charlie Kirkand Nick Fuentes “were staunch enemies”
Successor of Kirk
“Fuentes despised Kirk for his support of Israel and, more generally, for his efforts to marginalize the type of jubilantly racist and fascist politics of Fuentes“, says Goldberg’s column, despite the fact that he described the 27-year-old as successor to the influencer murdered.
In fact, the columnist says that Fuentes filled Kirk’s events with groypers, his followers, in reference to the Pepe the frog used by the right. He even accused Kirk’s wife, Erika, of rejoice at the shooting of her husband: “I get the impression that it is very false.”
The rise of Fuentes, a Chicago native, gained notoriety among Kirk’s discontents. In 2020, Fuentes founded the America First Political Action Conference as an alternative to the Conservative Political Action Conference, a signature event on the Republican calendar.
Veto on networks
The exclusion of Fuentes of all platforms, including that of X, although months later, it reduced its reach, despite being one of the biggest speakers among young conservatives. “Fuentes’ online rehabilitation would question Musk’s commitment to freedom of expression,” he maintains. The New York Times.
And the owner himself Tesla answered: “Very well, you will be reinstated, as long as you do not break the law”. “It’s better to have any stance against something out in the open so it can be refuted, rather than have it grow dormant in the dark,” Musk added.
Daniel Kelley, of the Anti-Defamation League, said in reference to Fuentes: “When there is malicious people like Fuentes “On major social media platforms, we give them a megaphone to spread anti-Semitism, Holocaust denialism and other similar ideas to many, many more people.”
“The more people listen to the hate he expresses Fuentesthe more it normalizes that type of speech. “There seems to be an idea circulating that his followers, and the followers of what he represents, constitute a large enough part of the MAGA base that, at the very least, it should be taken into account,” Kelley added.