Fuentes is known for peddling extreme white nationalism, Holocaust denial, and misogyny. He has called Jewish people “money changers, bullshit artists, psychopaths, charlatans, grifters, manipulators” and stated that “Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part.” Yet right-wing media figures and conservative lawmakers have increasingly adopted some of the extreme rhetoric and policy ideas Fuentes is known for.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) recently introduced a bill calling for “sole and exclusive allegiance” to the United States, echoing the antisemitic “dual loyalty” trope frequently pushed by Fuentes. Right-wing media and Republican politicians have also pushed the concept of “remigration,” a policy The Associated Press says is a “chilling notion of returning immigrants to their native lands in what amounts to a soft-style ethnic cleansing” and which reflects Fuentes' demands for harsh immigration crackdowns. As Will Sommer wrote of Fuentes for The Bulwark, “After nearly a decade of being treated as the skunk at the Grand Old Party … some of the Republicans’ leading thinkers have adopted his ideas.”

Fuentes’ popularity online appeared to accelerate in 2025, when he appeared as a guest on numerous online shows viewed millions of times. Skipping over legacy right-wing media spaces like Fox News and Newsmax, he appeared instead on right-leaning online shows, including those hosted by Tucker Carlson, Patrick Bet-David, and Glenn Greenwald. Fuentes has also appeared with “manosphere” streamers including Adin Ross, Sneako, and the Nelk Boys, who offered him the chance to exchange friendly banter before their audiences of predominantly young men.

According to Media Matters’ research, from June to December of 2025, Fuentes added nearly 450,000 followers on his Rumble channel, a roughly 300% increase from 150,000 followers to nearly 600,000. Amid these appearances and growth, Fuentes bragged that he had become “ubiquitous” on the right, celebrating “how the Overton window has been shattered” and “how far we’ve come in a year and a half … how similar to me they all sound.”

After Fuentes was welcomed on Carlson's show last year, some right-wing media figures spoke out against Fuentes and warned about the spread of antisemitism taking over the right through infiltration by his followers and similar bigots.

This year, Fuentes has appeared at least 25 times on right-wing and right-leaning online shows and streams alongside at least 13 different influencers and media figures: Joel Webbon, Alex Jones, Tim Pool, Elijah Schaffer, Jake Shields, Steven Crowder, Dave Smith, Andrew Tate, Sneako, Clavicular, Myron Gaines, Keith Woods, and Bradley Martyn.

Media Matters reviewed full episodes and streams that featured Fuentes and were posted by these hosts and streamers and found that they have earned at least 7.8 million combined views on YouTube, Rumble, and Kick. Fuentes cross-posted many of the appearances on his own Rumble channel, earning at least 6.1 million views combined.

• Podcaster Joe Rogan said “Fuentes is really good” and is “funny sometimes.” While discussing podcaster Tim Dillon's humor and content, guest Dave Smith told Rogan that Dillon “and Fuentes are the top two.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 3/26/26]
• Podcaster Megyn Kelly: Fuentes “says very controversial things about Jews and Blacks and women, but … says a lot of things that have turned out to be prescient on, like, politics.” [SiriusXM, The Megyn Kelly Show, 5/4/26]
• Kelly also remarked: “There's no question he's a very talented broadcaster … but there's also no question that he says things that are extremely racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic.” [SiriusXM, The Megyn Kelly Show, 5/5/26]
• Streamer Tim Pool said Fuentes is “correct in a lot of things, for sure.” He added: “I think the media definitely lies about what he actually believes. He's not as bad as the media says, but he’s certainly got opinions that I find objectionable, of course.” [YouTube, Timcast, 3/11/26]
• Podcaster Tucker Carlson said Fuentes “makes points that are true, a lot of them,” in particular “his critique that the whites are shafted and that this Israel relationship is really sick.” In a December 2025 appearance, Carlson also claimed Fuentes is successful “because of the obvious truth behind some of what he is saying.” [YouTube, The Tucker Carlson Show, 5/8/26; All-In Podcast, 12/12/25]
• Discussing Fuentes’ appearances with other influencers at a Miami nightclub that played Ye’s song Heil Hitler while they were there, former Daily Wire host Brett Cooper said Fuentes had “aura.” Footage from the night also appears to show Fuentes in a limousine alongside Fresh & Fit’s Myron Gaines, who has his hand raised in a seeming Sieg Heil salute. Cooper said: “Do I agree with Nick Fuentes all the time? No. Obviously not. I do not agree with anybody online 100% of the time, but I am sorry, the man is funny. Sue me.” [YouTube, The Brett Cooper Show, 1/20/26; NBC Miami, 1/19/26; Rumble, Nicholas J. Fuentes, 1/18/26]

• Fox host Sean Hannity called Fuentes an “idiot” and “a nut” and said that he’s “been platformed too much.” [Premiere Radio Network, The Sean Hannity Show, 4/27/26]
• Fox host Brian Kilmeade called Fuentes “a raging racist.” Kilmeade: “You know you got a guy on the right like Nick Fuentes, a raging racist who people on the right should run from. Other people choose to interview him.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/16/26]
• Laura Loomer accused Fuentes of attempting to sabotage Republicans in midterm elections. She claimed: “Marjorie Traitor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Dave Smith, all these woke reich people. They're the ones that are trying to sabotage the elections, not me.” She added: “They want our country to be governed by the radical left, so that we can pack the courts, and they can give citizenship to the 100,000 illegals and foreigners on visas in our country so that we're forever replaced, and Republicans will never again get reelected or have any power in our country ever again, because we'll just be a country of foreigners and they're going to completely replace us.” [Rumble, Loomer Unleashed, 3/31/26]
• Commentator Brad Palumbo said on Jillian Michaels’ show Keeping it Real: “I’m OK with edgy jokes and edgy humor. … But there's a difference when you actually mean it. You actually do hate gay people. You actually do hate Black people. And that's how I feel about Nick Fuentes.” [YouTube, Keeping it Real, 1/14/26]
• Newsmax host Greg Kelly called Fuentes a “nutjob.” He also said, “Sorry. If you like Hitler, if you like Stalin, I really have no time for you.” [Newsmax, The Greg Kelly Report, 1/22/26]