Two loyal allies of Donald Trump have clashed over a bigoted post about Kamala Harris’s Native American heritage, the latest sign of discord among MAGA surrogates as the former president tries to regain his lead in the presidential race.
Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist and close Trump ally, was rebuked on social media Wednesday night by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia after she cited racist and offensive cultural stereotypes about Harris, whose mother was Indian.
“This is horrific and extremely racist,” Greene posted on X in response to Loomer. “This does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump. This behavior should never be tolerated.”
Greene’s outcry came in response to a post by Loomer saying that if Harris wins in November, “the White House will smell like curry and White House speeches will be delivered through a call center and the American people will only be able to provide feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that no one will understand.”
Loomer posted on social media after Harris, who has both Indian and Jamaican ancestry, shared on X about visiting her grandparents in India as a child.
Loomer traveled to Philadelphia for the presidential debate aboard Trump’s private plane and spent Wednesday accompanying him and senior members of his campaign to 9/11 memorial events in Manhattan and Pennsylvania. Throughout the day, Loomer, who has called 9/11 an “inside job,” posted photos and videos of Trump at Ground Zero, with victims’ families and with rescue workers. Loomer does not officially work for the campaign and was invited as a guest, although she has been an unofficial adviser to Trump.
The Trump team did not respond to a request for comment.
Loomer posted memes and social media posts repeating apparently false stories about Haitian migrants eating pets in Ohio – falsehoods that were then repeated by the former president during the debate and shared by other conservatives, including Trump’s running mate JD Vance.
It was not the first time Greene or Loomer had been involved in a public feud. The two prominent MAGA women have openly disparaged each other in recent years, including last year when Greene, in response to a news report that Trump was looking to hire Loomer for his campaign, called her “mentally unstable and a proven liar” and said she warned Trump not to “hire or do business with a liar.” Trump has continued to express his appreciation for both women.
Greene herself has been criticized for racist comments, including when senior Republicans in the House of Representatives tried to distance themselves from her after she expressed anti-Semitic and Islamophobic views before her 2020 election. She had previously said that black people were “slaves to the Democratic Party.”
Loomer and a spokesman for Greene did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
