‘Ghetto’: Laura Loomer must be denounced for racist comments

Laura Loomer is racist and obviously very obsessed with Black women.

If you missed what this uncivilized clown had to say — and no, I’m not calling Loomer a clown because people online compare her to Jigsaw from “Saw.” I’m calling her a clown because her behavior is clownish — she went after Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, former Rep. Cori Bush and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, calling them “ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive Black b*****s” and saying they were unfit for the power they hold.

The least funny part about all of this is the silence from the Republican Party.

Former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene actually condemned Loomer, calling her comments “nasty, hateful” and racist. Greene went even further, saying, “This is Trump’s new MAGA and Republican Party and I want nothing to do with it.”

So where are the rest of the Republicans who claim racism has no place in American society?

Because I keep hearing from them about Hasan Piker. And if Piker is politically relevant enough to generate scrutiny because he has campaigned with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, then surely Loomer, an unofficial Trump adviser, who has campaigned with Donald Trump, has his cellphone number, has met with him in the Oval Office, has been welcomed inside the White House, and touts moving the needle on policy decisions, is relevant enough to warrant the same scrutiny.

“Your president refuses to condemn this. That is the overarching point, I do not want to hear a single thing about Hasan Piker until your president goes forward and condemns this.”

Because this isn’t about whether Hasan Piker or Laura Loomer is more offensive. It’s about whether the standard actually exists or not.

Let’s not pretend Loomer is some random woman yelling into the internet. Trump has publicly praised her work, and reporting has documented her access to him and her influence inside his political orbit. In April 2025, she met with Trump in the Oval Office and pushed him to oust personnel she believed were disloyal.

This is the same woman who promoted conspiracy theories about 9/11 , yet Trump brought her to a 9/11 memorial event during the 2024 campaign.

So when Republicans demand accountability for inflammatory rhetoric from people associated with Democrats, I agree with them. Accountability cannot be partisan.

But if you want to pretend that Loomer has no connection to Trump, there are a slew of other statements made by Republican government officials that Republicans can condemn. Our colleague Niall Stanage summed it up seamlessly :

“The president of the United States described people of Somalia as garbage. Randy Fine, a Republican congressman, compared muslims unfavorably to dogs. The Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia tweeted a video at the time of pro-Palestine protests of a white counter-protester racially abusing a Black woman. Those are not influencers, those are the president of the United States and office holders in this time.”

I’m disgusted that we have reached a place where calling out racism somehow requires a political calculation. Black women should not have to be perfect to deserve basic human dignity. And political parties should not need a polling memo before deciding that racism is wrong.

If Republicans cannot simply say that racism is wrong, that 9/11 is not an inside job, and that President Trump should disassociate himself from people who traffic in this kind of hateful, vile and bigoted rhetoric, then what are we even talking about? Silence is permission. The Republican Party is going to need to find the backbone to condemn hate when it comes from people inside its own orbit.

Lindsey Granger is a NewsNation contributor and co-host of The Hill’s commentary show “Rising.” This column is an edited transcription of her on-air commentary.