Nick Fuentes on the future of MAGA and the post-Trump GOP: “I was MAGA, but I'm not anymore. I've moved beyond that. MAGA was sufficient for 2016, but it isn't anymore.”
Fuentes: “The America First movement is just getting started. All it needs is a leader. … I wouldn’t decline, but it needs to be a politician, needs to be maybe somebody a little bit older, maybe somebody with a family, more normal.”
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From the November 14, 2025, edition of America First, streamed on Rumble
NICK FUENTES (HOST): You go from MAGA to America First. Step one, step two. You go from sort of like a vague 1990s liberalism that says, you know -- It's a cult of personality. Through personal loyalty to Trump, we're going to withstand the high pressure media attacks, political attacks. We're going to see the system's corrupt. We're going to destroy the system's legitimacy and their credibility and the rest of it. Prove that it's possible, show ourselves our own power, change the rules. Do all these things. Warm people up, move the overton window to the right, change the GOP.
Then we move on to America First, and now we say, well why are we against mass migration? Because this country has an identity. Why are we against foreign wars? Because we have them, because we're under the control of a foreign lobby. We have a corruption problem. Who isn't putting America first, in trade negotiations? Who isn't putting America first in war, and why? Because of the corruption of the money system. The money system has to give way to national power. We need a truly populist tyrant, a truly populist -- a true leader, a true executive to come in and clear out the corruption, the super PACs. OK?
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MAGA was stage one in the booster rocket, this is stage two. We have to now graduate. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing disloyal. There's not a lack of continuity. People say you're not MAGA. True. I'm not MAGA anymore. I was MAGA, but I'm not anymore. I've moved beyond that. MAGA was sufficient for 2016, but it isn't anymore. Now we need something stronger. We need something more developed. We need something that is more sincere. We need America First.
So this is what I've been on for the past ten years is succession. What comes after Trump? This is why I'm so against Vance because I alone have recognized that Peter Thiel and that crew, Silicon Valley, has been making a play to define succession, the post-Trump GOP. And they, they basically want to take the baton from Trump and turn 180 and run it back in the other direction. The Palantir guys, Joe Lonsdale, Alex Karp, Bronze Age Pervert, these types, and I think Vance too, they want to take the baton and run it back to Israel. They want to take the baton and run it back to cheap, Indian immigration. They want to bring it back to neoliberalism, multiracial working-class populism, color-blind meritocracy. All of that is a code for we're going to keep letting America get more diverse, we're still going to help Israel, we're still going to keep an economic system that favors the billionaires.
And I have always said, no, we don't need a Silicon Valley puppet recapitulating MAGA as the old GOP. No, we need to take the baton and move it forward into America First. We need to deepen it. We need to strengthen it. We need to fortify it. We need to take those pillars and refine them. That's the point. So if you feel out of place with MAGA, that's OK. The America First movement is just getting started. All it needs is a leader. All it needs is a leader, somebody, and I'm not saying me, I don't even know that it would be somebody like myself. I wouldn't decline, but it needs to be a politician, needs to be maybe somebody a little bit older, maybe somebody with a family, more normal.
But the America First movement is ready for liftoff. It just needs a charismatic leader to take it into the presidential election in '28. And whoever is going to have that message, who can outflank Vance on these issues, who can outflank an establishment Democrat on economic populism, that person can be the next president. So which handsome white man is going to do that? Which handsome Christian white man is going to wrest control of the baton from JD Vance and Donald Trump and redefine MAGA, kind of reconsecrate, create a new covenant with the people, a new chapter in the history of this movement? And like I said, there's going to be continuity, but there has to be a fork here. It has to go to a different place.