Tangent
Yiannopoulos has been a supporter of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda, saying in a tweet last year, “We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters.”
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Key Background
Yiannopoulos rose to fame in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election won by Trump. He wrote articles on Breitbart blasting Islam and feminism, and took part in trolling campaigns mocking affirmative action efforts and feminists. He was banned from Twitter in 2016 after inciting and engaging in a harassment campaign against actress and comedian Leslie Jones, who had starred in a 2016 “Ghostbusters” reboot featuring an all-female main cast. Yiannopoulos also hosted controversial college speaking tours, with many of his appearances being met with backlash and student protest as critics argued he was spreading hate speech. Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart and had a speaking invitation rescinded from the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2017 after he appeared to defend relationships between older men and teenage boys. He later argued his remarks were misinterpreted and stemmed from his own experiences. Yiannopoulos has since distanced himself from Trump, saying he organized a 2022 Mar-a-Lago meeting between Trump, West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes “just to make Trump’s life miserable.”
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