Nick Fuentes says “podcast bros” being against mass deportations is “a very bad bellwether” for “where the middle is”
Fuentes: “If Joe Rogan and Tim Dillon and Theo Von are expressing reluctance or skepticism or doubt about mass deportations, that's a barometer."
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From the January 14, 2026, edition of America First, streamed on Rumble
NICK FUENTES (HOST): I told you this new coalition of Barstool conservatives and podcast pros, they're not down for it because they're not really right-wing. Guys like Joe Rogan are center-left basically. They're like civil libertarians, like socially liberal.
So in 2024, everybody was all jazzed up saying, oh, Trump has this huge coalition, like the energy has shifted, woke is dead, blah blah. And I said watch, in 2025, none of these people are going to be down for it. The tech bros, the podcast bros, none of the bros are going to be down for mass deportations. I said because it's going to be a repeat of 2018.
Trump is going to bring down the hammer on the immigrants. The media is going to play wall-to-wall coverage of these atrocities. I said and none of these people are going to stand by it. They're all going to say we got to take it easy. This is inhumane.
Because at the end of the day, the tech bros and the podcast bros are not like immigration restrictionists, they're not nativists. They're against the criminal illegal aliens, they're against the drug dealers and the gang bangers. They don't care about the illegals that are here working. They don't care that our country is becoming non-white, like they don't really care. That's not their ideology, that's not their worldview.
And so these people were conscripted into the fight with Trump, And I said, you know, you got to be careful. Don't get me wrong, take their support, but understand you're going to have a much lower ceiling of support when you actually do these things. Yes, in 2024, you can be everything to everybody. And everybody can think they're going to get exactly what they want. But in 2025 and '6 when the rubber meets the road, you're going to lose a lot of these people and you got to be willing to push through anyway.
So that is a very bad bellwether. Because if Joe Rogan and Tim Dillon and Theo Von are expressing reluctance or skepticism or doubt about mass deportations, that's a barometer. That shows you where the middle is. That's where the moderates are. That's where maybe a lot of the Gen-Z people are.
And I don't know that Trump is going to push through if he becomes too unpopular. If this escalates and intensifies, which it needs to, they're going to get more negative coverage. People are going to get more outspoken against it. It will become more unpopular. And then that is the moment of truth. Is Trump going to put up or shut up? Is Trump going to put up or is he going to shut up? That's the question. So, yeah, I saw that. It doesn't surprise me at all. I predicted that exactly in 2024.