Laura Loomer, a right-wing influencer who has sway with President Donald Trump, rejected the administration’s two-week ceasefire deal with Iran, claiming it is “awful for America” and that the U.S. should “destroy the regime” instead.
Loomer, who has spent much of her online career spreading Islamophobic rhetoric, insisted that a ceasefire in exchange for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz was “a negative for our country” and that the U.S. “didn’t really get anything out of it.”
“I don’t know why people are acting like this is a win,” Loomer wrote on X Tuesday. “The ceasefire will fail. And Trump will be proven right about how this regime needs to be wiped out. It has already failed. The negotiation has been a failure so those who are celebrating while undermining Trump are misguided.”
Her comments followed the president’s announcement of a deal, brokered by Pakistan, after Trump threatened to Iranian “civilization” in a post on Truth Social.
While others criticized Trump for his apparent threat of genocide against the “whole” Iranian civilization, Loomer insisted the campaign was “100% America First” and appeared to refer to Iranians as “Muslim terrorists.”
Loomer has previously labeled Islam “a cancer on humanity” and “anti-American” while accusing Muslims of being terrorists. She has also said it should be “illegal” for Muslim people to run for office.
A tenuous ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran and brokered by Pakistan would pause the war for two weeks and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping traffic while negotiations continue for an end to the fighting.
When news broke of the temporary ceasefire, Loomer claimed the arrangement would make Iran “a threat to the U.S. and Western civilization” for another 47 years.
“We are already losing the midterms due to the incompetence of GOP Reps who refused to codify President Trump’s agenda in my opinion, so you might as well destroy the regime,” said Loomer, referencing the prospect of Republicans losing control of Congress after election this fall.
She blamed people in charge of negotiations, not the president, and predicted that the ceasefire would eventually fail.
“Trump understands the real danger and threat posed by the Iranian regime, which is why people around him … stabbed him in the back yesterday by leaking private Situation Room conversations to [the New York Times] to pretend like they were against the war when many of these people are on the record supporting the war themselves,” said Loom
It’s unclear who exactly Loomer was referring to.
While Loomer is not a federal government employee nor an official member of the administration, she is seen as an influential figure close to the president. Last year, Trump reportedly fired National Security Council staff at the recommendation of Loomer, who alleged they were disloyal to the president.
