Why Trump’s Dinner with Nick Fuentes Requires a New Journalistic Approach

The dinner shouldn’t have happened. The lack of condemnation is worse. The way journalists will cover it is the biggest problem.

Jamie Cohen
5 min readNov 28, 2022
A screen grab from Ye’s 2024 presidential announcement video featuring racist antisemite Nick Fuentes on a bullhorn. The caption reads #YE24 and posted from Kanye’s Twitter account.

“You have no choice. Not your body, not your choice. Your body is mine, and you’re having my baby.”

These words were screamed by a man wearing an FDNY fleece from the steps of the Old St. Patrick Cathedral in downtown Manhattan, the morning of May 7, 2022. The other men in attendance, holding rosaries, were wearing blue America First hats were protesting against Planned Parenthood, just days after the Supreme Court had leaked its plans to undo Roe vs. Wade and permanently set back women’s rights in the United States.

Several men in dark clothing and blue America First hats protest on the steps of Old St Patricks Cathedral in New York City. The caption reads: “You have no choice. Not your body, not your choice. Your body is mine, and you’re having my baby.”
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These men weren’t your typical protesters (or FDNY members), they were part of Nick Fuentes’ Groyper Army, a tight knit collection of misogynist, holocaust-denying, Christian Nationalist, racist bigots who believe themselves to be “heirs to conservatism.” Their entire ideology is based on what Fuentes says is a “traditionalist, Christian, conservative, reformist, American

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Jamie Cohen

Digital culture expert and meme scholar. Cultural and Media Studies PhD. Internet studies educator: social good, civic engagement and digital literacies