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<\/a><\/p>\nFuentes, the streamer and avowed antisemite who has previously said Hitler was \u201cvery f\u2013king cool,\u201d has been gaining more traction as a voice on the right. (Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cFinally getting it Nick,\u201d Bowman commented, apparently recognizing some common ground between himself on the left and Fuentes, on the far right, who said in the video that Trump was \u201cbetter than the Democrats for Israel, for the oil and gas industry, for Silicon Valley, for Wall Street,\u201d but said he wasn\u2019t \u201cbetter for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, Fuentes says there is actually no common ground between him and those on the left. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy problem with Trump isn\u2019t that he\u2019s Hitler \u2014 my problem with Trump is that he is not Hitler,\u201d Fuentes said during his streaming show on Tuesday, which focused mostly on the potential for an American attack on Iran.<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cYou have all these left-wing people saying, \u2018Why do I agree with Nick Fuentes?\u2019 It\u2019s like, I\u2019m criticizing Trump because there\u2019s not enough deportations, there\u2019s not enough ICE brutality, there\u2019s not enough National Guard. Sort of a big difference!\u201d<\/p>\n
Fuentes, the streamer and avowed antisemite who has previously said Hitler was \u201cvery f\u2013king cool,\u201d has been gaining more traction as a voice on the right. His interview with Tucker Carlson in October plunged Republicans into an ongoing debate over antisemitism within their ranks, inflaming the divide between a pro-Israel wing of the party and an emerging, isolationist \u201cAmerica First\u201d wing that\u2019s against U.S. military assistance to Israel.<\/p>\n
Once a pro-Trump MAGA Republican, Fuentes has become the leader of the \u201cgroyper\u201d movement advocating for farther-right positions. The set of Fuentes\u2019 show includes both a hat and a mug with the words \u201cAmerica First\u201d on his desk.<\/p>\n
In a New York Times interview, Trump recently weighed in on rising tensions within the Republican Party, saying Republican leaders should \u201cabsolutely\u201d condemn figures who promote antisemitism, and that he does not approve of antisemites in the party.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I don\u2019t. I think we don\u2019t need them. I think we don\u2019t like them,\u201d replied Trump when asked by a reporter whether there was room within the Republican coalition for antisemitic figures.<\/p>\n
Asked if he would condemn Fuentes, Trump initially claimed that he didn\u2019t know the antisemitic streamer, before acknowledging that he had had dinner with him alongside Kanye West in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had dinner with him, one time, where he came as a guest of Kanye West. I didn\u2019t know who he was bringing,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe said, \u2018Do you mind if I bring a friend?\u2019 I said, \u2018I don\u2019t care.\u2019 And it was Nick Fuentes? I don\u2019t know Nick Fuentes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump flaunted his pro-Israel bona fides in the interview, mentioning the recent announcement that he was nominated for Israel\u2019s top civilian honor and calling himself the \u201cbest president of the United States in the history of this country toward Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fuentes, meanwhile, spent the bulk of his show on Tuesday speculating that Trump will order the U.S. to attack Iran, and concluded that \u201cIsrael is holding our hand walking us down the road toward an inevitable war.\u201d<\/p>\n