Milo Yiannopoulos ‘very ashamed’ of support for Trump after deportation

Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos said he is “very ashamed” for supporting President Trump after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained and deported him back to the United Kingdom.

Yiannopoulos told British commentator Piers Morgan on his talk show “Uncensored” on YouTube that he believes the Trump administration has “devolved into the Loomer admin,” referring to far-right influencer Laura Loomer, who took credit for reporting Yiannopoulos to ICE.

“To think that the promise and hope and joy and anticipation of Trump 2016 could, over the course of 10 years, collapse into this ugly, war-mongering –– taken as a whole, mentally ill heap of crazy with some of the most unstable and lunatic people seemingly directing the president’s actions,” Yiannopoulos told Morgan.

“If,” he added, “I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place. And I’m very ashamed that I did.”

ICE detained Yiannopoulos, a vocal critic of immigrants in the country illegally and supporter of Trump’s deportation agenda, Thursday night at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, La., ahead of a Friday concert for Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, in New Orleans, TMZ reported.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported the British national back to his home country on Friday. Federal officials said he legally entered the U.S. on May 14 and was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on July 22 when he did not appear at an immigration hearing.

The usually colorful and provocative Yiannopoulos spoke on “Uncensored” in a lowered tone in describing his thoughts on Trump, Loomer and his deportation.

Yiannopoulos described the process of being detained, calling it “humiliating and disorienting.” He said he experienced “brutality” as he passed through the immigration system.

“It was physically degrading, it was frightening,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve ever been frightened like that before … And I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. And I was like, ‘Oh, I really have got to get this out of my system.'”

He reflected on being “a little bit blasé” and “cavalier” about when people shared their traumas, saying that he now understands it.

“I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” Yiannopoulos added.

He dismissed White House border czar Tom Homan’s remarks about Yiannopoulos overstaying his visa. Yiannopoulos said he did no such thing and that he is married to an American. He said he had an O-1 visa, a nonimmigrant work permit for individuals with “extraordinary ability,” as the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services describes it .

He said he filed for an adjustment to his status from a visa to a green card but never received any notices for a hearing, saying they went to an old address.

Yiannopoulos also shared some of his history with Loomer, telling Morgan that he worked on her failed 2020 House campaign in Florida. He said he was positioned to work as her communications director until it appeared that “there was something very, very wrong with her.”

He described her relationship with Trump as “symbiotic” and said the president “lets her run riot.” Morgan interjected to prevent Yiannopoulos from sharing further details, citing U.K. defamation law.

Yiannopoulos built his reputation as a conservative firebrand in his writing for the far-right Breitbart News, which published his incendiary comments about Muslims, women and other groups of people. He stepped down in 2017 from his role as senior editor at Breitbart after he made comments that appeared to condone pedophilia. He later apologized.