Drew Harwell

So I think it's very difficult to believe that none of that is intentional.

There is, I guess, a separate question of whether this means that White House policy genuinely is motivated by white nationalism rather than the people who happen to hold social media posts within this administration who are younger Zoomer conservatives who have maybe disproportionately, you know, come up in this online culture that values trolling and edgelordism and

But I think fundamentally, official agencies of the federal government are tweeting out references to white nationalist and neo-Nazi works and are accompanying those allusions with links to Join ICE.

I think there's been some reporting on some of the personnel in some of these agencies, but yeah, I don't think that each individual post, I don't think we can say for sure who wrote them.

Yes.

The president of the United States is constantly posting on his own personal social media site, Truth Social.

Earth Social.

America will be well represented in Davos by me, God bless you all, President Donald J. Trump.

The Vice President J.D.

Vance is a heavy user of X. You often find him going back and forth in the replies with kind of obscure internet personalities during what would seemingly be his working hours.

I always wear an undershirt when I go out in public to have a fight loudly with my wife.

You have this administration that is very intensely immersed in right wing online culture.

And that makes it even harder to believe that they don't recognize kind of the references that are happening.

It's not good for the country to have these federal agencies tweeting white nationalist messages.

But I also don't think it's actually good for the interests of the Trump administration.

Probably the least sympathetic version of the administration's case is that immigrants are polluting the blood of white Christian America.

And yet that seems to be where they're leaning in with a lot of their online messaging.

So, yeah, I do see the administration's social media habits really informing their political messaging in a way that is not in their own interests and, more significantly, not in the interests of the United States being a country that is welcoming to all its people and functions as a multi-ethnic society.