Laura Loomer is unhappy.
She’s unhappy with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — in part, it seems, because of his happiness with the prospect of Dr. Casey Means as the next surgeon general. Loomer has accused Means of witchery. No, not metaphorically.
She’s unhappy with Pam Bondi — and explained why on a recent edition of the podcast “Loomer Unleashed,” a misnomer given the lack of evidence that Loomer has ever been leashed. “She is a full-fledged liar,” Loomer said, referring to Bondi. She also slammed Bondi for being “on Fox News more than she does her job.” That last part revealed Loomer’s lament as pure theater. She surely has enough brain cells to recognize that being on Fox News is a Trump cabinet member’s job.
I left out House Republicans. Loomer is unhappy with them for entertaining serious cuts to Medicaid, which she deems politically ruinous. (See? There are those brain cells.) She’s not thrilled, either, with whoever nudged President Trump toward winged swag from Qatar.
“We cannot accept a $400 million ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits,” she wrote in a post on X. In another: “It will be a stain.”
So how does that leave Loomer feeling about Trump? She’s still professing big love. But it and she are clearly more complicated than many of us realized. And her gripes and infighting with others in the MAGA movement mean trouble for Trump.
Loomer exemplifies the danger — to Trump’s own fortunes as well as the country’s — of how he often sizes up potential allies. He looks not at the quality of their ideas but at the audacity of their provocations, not at how nicely they play with others but at how reliably they rile their followers. That’s a fine approach if you’re just owning the libs and staging a carnival. But if you mean to govern? The freak show gets in the way.
