Laura Elizabeth Loomer (born May 21, 1993) is an American far-right political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality.
Born in Tucson, Arizona, Loomer has worked as an activist for several organizations, including Project Veritas, the Geller Report, Rebel News, and InfoWars. She has described herself as being "pro-white nationalist" and a "proud Islamophobe", repeatedly making racist and anti-Muslim statements in public settings. She currently hosts a show, Loomer Unleashed, streaming weekly on Rumble.
Loomer has been banned on numerous social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and formerly Twitter (now X, where she has since been reinstated), as well as on payment processors, and vehicle-for-hire and food delivery mobile apps, for violating policies on hate speech and misinformation. Loomer has been banned and removed from a number of events, and has had her press credentials revoked for alleged harassment and causing disturbances.
Loomer was the Republican Party nominee to represent Florida's 21st congressional district in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, and lost to the Democratic Party candidate Lois Frankel. She ran in the Republican primary for Florida's 11th congressional district in 2022, losing to incumbent Daniel Webster. In April 2023, Donald Trump sought to hire Loomer for his presidential campaign, but his senior campaign advisors successfully discouraged Trump from doing so. By September 2024, some Trump supporters and others had expressed concerns about Loomer's continuing presence around and influence on Trump.
During the second presidency of Donald Trump starting in 2025, Loomer emerged as an increasingly influential actor, using her social media platform to call for the firing of officials she deems insufficiently loyal to Trump. In early April 2025, reports emerged that Loomer influenced President Trump to dismiss more than half a dozen national security officials due to her suspicions of their disloyalty to him, and that Loomer had continued to advocate for additional firings. Loomer was for years a critic of American military aid to Ukraine, but reversed her position in July 2026, saying she had been misled by Russian propaganda; she subsequently visited Kyiv, where she interviewed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Early life and education Laura Elizabeth Loomer was born in Tucson, Arizona, on May 21, 1993. Loomer's father is a rheumatologist, and her mother is a nurse. Loomer and her two brothers were raised in Arizona. She stated that she grew up in a "very violent household", primarily because her younger brother suffered from mental illness. Her parents broke up when she was 12 years old and she was sent to a boarding school shortly thereafter. She attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, leaving after one semester; she said she felt targeted for being conservative. She transferred to Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, and graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.
Activities 2015–2017 In March 2015, Loomer used a concealed video camera to record her conversations with Barry University officials discussing the idea of starting a club called "Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria". The school apparently asked only that the club's name be changed to "Students in Support of the Middle East". James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, a right-wing organization known for producing secretly recorded and deceptively edited undercover audio and video investigations about media organizations and left-leaning groups, released the video of the encounter, alleging that it captured a university official unfazed by the idea of an on-campus organization to support ISIS. Shortly thereafter, the university suspended Loomer for violating the student code of conduct and a professor shown in the video filed criminal charges against her for recording him without his knowledge. At the time, Loomer was an honors student in her senior year and the president of Barry University's Young Republicans Club.
According to a Hillary Clinton campaign official, Loomer and two other women posing as Clinton supporters attempted to "entrap" campaign workers into accepting illegal cash donations in July 2015. The official said the campaign had complied with the law.
On November 8, 2016, the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Loomer, as part of a Project Veritas stunt, went to a polling station dressed in a burqa and asked for a ballot under the name of Huma Abedin.
On June 10, 2017, she gave a speech to a crowd of "anti-Sharia" marchers in New York City organized by ACT for America and condemned "liberals who aligned themselves with Sharia law". She put a burqa on the Fearless Girl statue at its original Bowling Green location in lower Manhattan. A few days later, Loomer left Project Veritas for the Canadian far-right website The Rebel Media.
Julius Caesar play protest Her first stunt for Rebel Media was on June 16, 2017, when she disrupted a Shakespeare in the Park presentation of Julius Caesar in New York City, walking on stage during the live performance shortly after the title character was assassinated. The Delacorte Theatre production reimagined Julius Caesar as Donald Trump with a Slovenian-accented actress as his wife, Calpurnia. Before being escorted offstage by security, Loomer shouted, "This is violence against Donald Trump! Stop the normalization of political violence against the right! This is unacceptable!" Loomer was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. Earlier in the week, performances of the play had elicited criticism for depicting women and minorities perpetrating the violent assassination of Trump as U.S. president.
The Public Theater New York responded by saying although they are "champions" of the First Amendment, the disruption was caused by "social media". On June 19, Alyssa Rosenberg of The Washington Post wrote that she did not believe Loomer was genuinely offended by the play, but was looking for attention and to collect a US$1,000 bounty that alt-right social media personality Mike Cernovich had offered to anyone who disrupted the production. Appearing on the Fox News program Hannity a few days after her arrest, Loomer said she knew that disrupting the play would result in criminal charges against her. During the interview, she objected to the depiction of Caesar in the play and accused the left of "systematically and programmatically" using "free expression as a pretext to incite violence".
A "Free Laura" website, soliciting donations for her arrest expenses, had been purchased by Loomer's employer, Rebel Media owner Ezra Levant, six hours before the play started. Loomer also promoted a crowdfunding page for donations, which received $12,385 from 241 contributors: more money than the normal penalties for the charges she was facing.
In August 2017, she was one of several counter-jihad activists who were appointed "Shillman Fellows", with Robert J. Shillman contributing to her salary.
In September 2017, after three months, she resigned from Rebel Media.
Since then, she has occasionally reported for the American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website InfoWars, as well as the Geller Report and the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
2019 On January 14, 2019, Loomer convinced several men she met in a Home Depot parking lot, who she claimed were undocumented, to jump the fence with her at Nancy Pelosi's Napa, California, home. The group set up a tent on Pelosi's lawn to protest immigration before being removed by police. They were not arrested. A few days later, Loomer attempted to interrupt a speaker at the 2019 Women's March in Washington, D.C., appearing onstage to call the Women's March a "Nazi" organization. As she was escorted off by security, she shouted, "What about the Jews?" in an apparent reference to the national organizers' recent anti-semitism controversy. On January 30, 2019, Loomer and others jumped the wall surrounding the California Governor's Mansion in Sacramento. They wore Mexican serapes and sombreros, with one wearing a large false mustache, and said they were protesting Governor Gavin Newsom's stance on immigration. They were arrested, given citations, and released within a few hours. Later that day, the group provoked a confrontation outside a Mexican restaurant in downtown Sacramento, live-streaming the event.
2020–2022 Loomer unsuccessfully campaigned twice for a seat in the US House of Representatives during this period. See the section on her campaigns below.
2023–2024 In 2023, Loomer began her Rumble show, Loomer Unleashed. The content of the show includes monologues, pranks, and confronting politicians in public.
In 2024, Loomer continued to support the campaign of Donald Trump, telling The Washington Post, "I'm happy to dedicate all my time to helping Trump, because if Trump doesn't get back in, I don't have anything." During the 2024 US presidential campaign, Loomer was frequently seen at public events with then-candidate Donald Trump, although Trump issued a statement on Truth Social that she was not working for the campaign and is "a private citizen and longtime supporter." She was brought as a guest by Trump to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the September 10 presidential debate with opponent Kamala Harris. The following day, Loomer attended events alongside Trump commemorating the September 11 attacks. Loomer had previously endorsed claims that 9/11 "was an inside job".
According to anonymous sources on the Trump presidential campaign in 2024, Loomer reportedly influenced Trump to publicly endorse various false conspiracy theories, including the claim that Kamala Harris hid her black heritage and the Springfield pet-eating hoax alleging Haitian immigrants were eating other people's household pets. Loomer also posted a tweet referencing stereotypes of Indians, saying that if Harris, who is half-East Indian, were elected president, "the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center." Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right member of the House of Representatives, condemned this remark as "appalling and extremely racist".
In 2024, as part of a promotional deal for a pet food brand, Pawsitive, Loomer filmed herself eating dog food on her Rumble channel.
Days before the 2024 presidential election, Loomer accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of misrepresenting a fundraiser, in which Kennedy was seeking donations to support Donald Trump's election campaign. Loomer claimed the money would be spent on re-payments to the Democratic party given Kennedy's previous primary run with the party. This resulted in online backlash from members of the MAGA movement, including Roger Stone.
2025–present During Donald Trump's second term as president, Loomer has emerged as an actor of considerable influence.
While she has not held a formal advisory role in the White House, she is known to have given advice to President Trump on foreign policy. She is perhaps best known for being a "loyalty enforcer" of the president, so much so that her name has been used as a verb—"Loomered", meaning to be fired or damaged in some way for alleged disloyalty. Loomer has described her role as no different from that of an investigative reporter who informs the public, or as similar to anti-communist senator Joseph McCarthy, whom she admires. Others (in the Trump administration) have characterized her as a "one-person wrecking crew ... part loyal bagman, part Roy Cohn figure", whose attacks are disproportionate to the offenses of her victims.