Conservative influencer Nick Fuentes, who refused to approve Donald Trump during his 2024 presidential campaign, said Friday that the former president’s supporters dressed in trash bags made him understand that “it’s a cult.”

In his Friday night episode of America firstFuentes referenced Trump’s October 30 rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, when the former president rode in a garbage truck in an attempt to play on the president. Joe Biden» the remark from the day before.

Biden faced backlash after a clip of his Tuesday call with Voto Latino surfaced online, where he was heard saying: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his – his demonization of Latinos is unacceptable, and it’s un-American. “.

The president’s remark follows comedian Tony Hinchliffe’s comment at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, where he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” The White House said News week Tuesday that Biden was referring to the rhetoric at Trump’s rally and not those voting for him. Officials also shared a transcript of Biden’s call that included an apostrophe about “partisan.”

However, the transcription was edited by White House press officialsaccording to an Associated Press report published Friday.

Biden’s remarks fueled Trump’s recent rhetoric about rallies and the way some supporters dress.

“At Trump rallies, they’re shouting ‘trash for Trump, trash for Trump,'” Fuentes said Friday, adding that some attendees have even started dressing up as trash. Dozens of Trump supporters, including Donald Trump Jr. and Megyn Kelly, posted photos on social media of them being “trash” for Halloween.

“That’s when I realized Trumpism was a cult, that’s when I realized the liberals were right. That’s when I “I realized it had gone too far, it was Frankenstein’s monster, we had created a Gollum is a problem.”

He said, “It’s a cult,” later calling Trumpism a “giant cult-like scam.” Fuentes noted that there is a “slavish devotion on the part of (Trump’s) supporters, they are willing to eat anything.”

News week contacted Fuentes for comment via X, formerly TwitterTrump’s messaging and email campaign Saturday evening.

Fuentes is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a “white nationalist livestreamer who advocates removing the Republican Party more to the extreme right” and an “admirer of fascists”. He was previously a Trump supporter and vocal ally during the “Stop the Steal” movement following Trump’s loss to Biden in 2020.

In 2022, Trump faced widespread criticism for a dinner he had with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The former president defended himselfclaiming at the time that he “knew nothing” about Fuentes before the dinner.

Later in the episode, Fuentes said of Trump supporters dressing up as trash, “It’s actually a bad image. It is negative; It’s sad and pathetic. Why would you want to dress up as a trash can? And think about the connotations. for the people… isn’t that what the elites already think of us? Don’t they think we’re trash? Don’t they think we are dirty and poor and part of this crowd? put on a trash bag and become a caricature? Isn’t that humiliating? »

Fuentes is among many conservative influencers and activists who once supported Trump but now refuse to support him. Friday night, Richard Spencer publicly supported the vice president Kamala Harris And Democrats in the Montana election. During a telephone interview with News week Saturday morninghe said, Democrats are “more competent” than the GOP.