By now, everyone knows that the official social media accounts for the Trump administration are cesspools of racism, complete with Nazi imag
Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:
By now, everyone knows that the official social media accounts for the Trump administration are cesspools of racism, complete with Nazi imagery and “banger memes”—and it’s all on your dime. But turning official channels of communication into xenophobic AI slop doesn’t seem to be quite enough for this administration, which seems to have resorted to having a White House staffer—yes, an official government employee—run a huge pro-MAGA X account. There’s no indication that the government runs the Johnny MAGA account on X. In fact, there’s no indication as to who runs it at all. Rather, it just looks like any other MAGA influencer account, boasting nearly 300,000 followers.
It features straight-up lies, like declaring that people in Minnesota burned the American flag after Renee Good was murdered, and it routinely boosts posts from President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account and official “rapid response” social media accounts. Conveniently, Johnny MAGA is run by Garrett Wade, who also just happens to work as a “rapid response manager” on official government social media accounts. So Wade posts on official accounts as part of his government job and then boosts those accounts via what is designed to look like an independent MAGA influencer account. MAGA types know—even if they won’t admit it—that what they’re trying to inflict on the country is wildly unpopular. That’s why they have to pull nonsense like spin up an army of bots to make it look like Nicki Minaj’s MAGA transformation is wildly popular or twist themselves into knots to say that their sad little alternative Super Bowl halftime show nabbed millions of eyeballs.
[...] Wade is a 27-year-old community college graduate who seems to have done nothing with his life but post pro-Trump garbage over at Elon Musk’s Nazi and Child Sexual Abuse Material Emporium. But lucky for him, the Trump administration loves inexperienced baby fascists, so he managed to parlay his posting into a $74,500/year government gig. Wade joins other Nazi youth like Peyton Rollins, the 21-year-old who’s currently helping run social media for the Department of Homeland Security. Rollins got the gig after he freaked out his colleagues at the Department of Labor by turning its social media accounts into bigoted pro-Trump garbage.
The identity of the “Johnny MAGA” X account has been revealed: His name is Garrett Wade.
Wade’s “Johnny MAGA” X account traffics in MAGA propaganda, lies, and bigotry.
