He dropped out in 2017 after completing his freshman year, claiming he received threats for attending the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. He studied introductory international relations and politics during his freshman year at Boston University.

Fuentes lived in La Grange Park, Illinois, and attended Lyons Township High School, where he was president of the student council. Early and personal lifeįuentes was born on August 18, 1998. history in a half-century or more' for American Jews. The meeting received significant comment from domestic and international political figures, with the debate surrounding the dinner being called 'the most discomfiting moment in U.S. President Donald Trump for a private dinner. In late November 2022, Fuentes, along with Kanye West, met with former U.S. He has encouraged the use of jokes and irony among white nationalist groups, stating that it 'is so important for giving a lot of cover and plausible deniability for our views'. Fuentes attended the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and he later was an attendee and speaker at events preceding the 2021 United States Capitol attack. In 2020, seeking to establish a white supremacist conference to rival CPAC, Fuentes began holding the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). Ĭollaborating with Patrick Casey, a former leader of the neo-Nazi organization Identity Evropa in 2019, Fuentes' followers, known as Groypers, began to heckle Turning Point's Culture War Tour, including a speaking event for Donald Trump Jr.

Fuentes identifies as a member of the incel movement, as a supporter of authoritarian government, and as a Catholic integralist and Christian nationalist. He is known for holding antisemitic views and denying the Holocaust.

A former YouTuber, his channel was permanently suspended in February 2020 for violating YouTube's hate speech policy. Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right white supremacist political commentator and live streamer.

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