Teens Say Trump’s Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats
Teens Say Trump’s Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats
Two women tell WIRED that when they were 18-year-old college freshmen, John McEntee, a former Trump administration official and cofounder of a Peter Thiel–backed dating app, behaved in ways they considered inappropriate in online conversations.
For context John McEntee, is not just a former Trump aide who's been referred to as the "deputy president," but a Project 2025 official, and co-founder of a Peter Thiel-funded right-wing dating app
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Low-level coffee aide
Edit: If you missed the reference, read up on George Papadopolous.
He was
director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office
I feel like this is a joke that whooshed right over people's heads. It's a reference to how Trump tries to distance himself from people who were actually close to him, right?
Yes, it’s a reference to George Papadapolous, a national security adviser to Trump who had extensive contact with the Russians, including working on setting up meetings between Trump and Putin. He was then caught lying to the FBI about these contacts. When the news came out, Trump dismissed his one-time advisor as a “low-level coffee boy.”