Nick Fuentes

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political commentator, activist and live streamer known for leading the Groypers. He identifies as a Christian nationalist, and a supporter of authoritarianism, while also associating with the incel subculture. He has been described as a neo-Nazi by various sources. His views have been characterized as white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and denying the Holocaust.

Fuentes was raised in La Grange Park, Illinois, and studied at Lyons Township High School where he embraced far-right conservative views. He began political activism in 2016 and started the episodic live stream America First in 2017. Collaborating with Patrick Casey, a former leader of the neo-Nazi organization Identity Evropa in 2019, Fuentes' followers began to heckle Charlie Kirk and his organization Turning Point USA's Culture War Tour, including a speaking event for Donald Trump Jr. This is referred to as the Groyper War. In 2020, seeking to establish a white supremacist conference to rival the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Fuentes began holding the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC).

In November 2022, Fuentes and the American rapper Kanye West had a private dinner with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. The meeting was broadly condemned by American political commentators, with The New York Times describing it as "what may be the most discomfiting moment in U.S. history in a half-century or more" for American Jews. In January 2024, Fuentes said he was a "Trump cultist". Fuentes became more critical of Donald Trump that year, partly due to his immigration, foreign affairs, and race policies. In August 2024, Nick Fuentes launched "Groyper War 2", a "digital war" against Trump's presidential campaign involving memes, trolls, and protests to push for more extreme right-wing positions, unsuccessful demands to fire advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, and withholding votes, crediting his efforts for Trump's rehiring of Corey Lewandowski while drawing concerns over potential election interference blueprints due to lax platform enforcement. In 2025, Fuentes said Trump was a "scam artist" due to his comments about the Epstein files.