Loomer does not have a formal role in the Trump administration but has been a staunch ally of Trump and appears to hold significant sway in the White House.
So who is Loomer – and how concerned should we be about her influence?
Director and deputy director of the National Security Agency, General Timothy Haugh and Wendy Noble, were also fired a short time later. It is not clear if the sackings were related.
The far-right activist appeared to take credit for the sackings on X, saying that “NSA Director Tim Haugh and his deputy Wendy Noble have been disloyal to President Trump” and said the pair had been “referred for firing”.
Laura Loomer arrives with Trump at Philadelphia International Airport . (Photo: Chris Szagola/AP)Loomer also mentioned “the NSC officials I reported to President Trump”.
“The people crying are the people who worked to undermine Donald Trump, members of the Democrat Party, and the mainstream media. They are furious. That’s how you know these people needed to be fired.”
Conspiracy and outrage
Loomer is a far right personality who is active on social media, where she describes herself as an investigative journalist.
The 31-year-old has been linked to conspiracy theories, including claiming 9/11 was an “inside job“.
The comment drew condemnation from even the more extreme fringes of Trump’s supporters, with far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene calling it “appalling and extremely racist” and saying it did not represent Trump.
President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives on Air Force One at Miami International Airport, 3 April 2025, in Miami. (Photo: Al Diaz/Miami Herald)In 2019, she stormed the New York women’s rights march stage, calling the movement “Nazi”, and in 2017 stormed the stage of a play which depicted Trump in Shakespeare’s Julius Caeser, where he is knifed to death.
‘Unorthodox – but not a surprise’
Dr Thomas Gift, founding Director of the Centre on US Politics at UCL, said that “nothing is orthodox about Trump firing the director and deputy director of the National Security Agency without cause”, but the “fact that he ostensibly did it based on the whims of far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is hardly a surprise.”
“These moves further fuel concerns about who Trump is taking advice and counsel from when making some of the most consequential decisions affecting America’s national security,” he said.
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