'B-list' MAGA influencers say US 'like really third world' after freebie trip to Qatar

A handful of MAGA influencers spent Thanksgiving on a press junket to Qatar where they marveled in the Middle Eastern nation's wealth and modernity, remarking that it made America look third world, according to The Bulwark's Will Sommer.

"The Gulf Arab monarchy is on a clear campaign to charm Donald Trump and those around him, starting with the 'gift' of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet (supposedly to the Air Force, not Trump) in May, and extending to the building of new facilities at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho (which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth inaccurately reported as a Qatari military base)," Sommer notes.

"The latest Qatari charm tactic has less to do with aviation than with recreation for some B-list MAGA social media personalities," he adds.

Among that B-list: Emily Wilson (better known as “Emily Saves America”), Turning Point Action's Caitlin Sinclair, and podcaster Rob Smith, Sommer notes.

The influencers, he writes, "documented their visits to luxe Doha restaurants, a nightclub, the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix, and even an audience with Serena Williams. They posted videos of themselves walking the red carpet at the Formula 1 Paddock Club, where tickets can run into the mid-four figures."

They even had meetings with Qatari officials that, Sommer notes, "Smith robotically called ... mutually beneficial military and financial partnerships."

While Sommer says while it's not clear who paid for the trip, the influencers certainly didn't, and "the assumption that some Qatari group was behind their good times and Smith’s new pro-Qatar stance has roiled the right, with one Newsmax contributor calling it proof of a 'hostile subversion campaign.'"

So-called "MAGA Whisperer" and new member of the Pentagon press pool Laura Loomer "has been on a days-long meltdown over the trip, at one point declaring that she’d rather eat canned tuna and beans in her apartment than sell out to the Qatar lobby in such a way," Sommer writes.

Loomer criticized Smith, who is openly gay, for going to a country "where homosexual acts are outlawed."

Smith snapped back at Loomer, saying she was trying to get him killed by posting his sexuality online, Sommer notes.

"The influencers, by comparison, appear to have dined at Cipriani Doha, a place so fancy its online menu doesn’t even have prices," he adds.

Wilson has taken the most heat for the trip, Sommer reports, reminding of her involvement "as one part of the vicious influencer engagement ring drama earlier this year or for her stance that slavery should be legal on a state-by-state basis."

Wilson, who falls into the pro-Israel camp of MAGA influencers and took an "influencer trip" to Israel over the summer, was questioned by fellow conservative Seth Dillon, who asked, “Does Qatar pay better than Israel?”

“Guess Israel needs a non-compete clause!” cracked former InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, Sommer notes.

Wilson snapped back saying "it was cool to go to Qatar," and that she was a Formula 1 fan, Sommer reports.

She also found her foot in her mouth, Sommer says.

"Wilson used her trip to run down her comparatively clout-less homeland, the United States," he writes.

“Honestly it was amazing to finally feel safe and not be surrounded by homeless crackheads and criminals for once,” she wrote. “I could actually relax and enjoy myself.”

On her podcast, she praised Qatar for having “no black people on EBT going to Walmart to get fat” and “definitely no gay dudes rollerblading.”

“Wow, America’s like really third world compared to these places,” Wilson said.

Wilson also said she prefers Qatari Muslims to American.

"All the Muslims there are extremely smart, successful, and productive,” Wilson said on her podcast. “The ones [in the United States] and in the U.K. are the ones they don’t f——tolerate in their country, and they kick out — that’s why they suck and they’re pieces of s——.”

Sommer says these trips are increasingly common among MAGA influencers.

"As for Wilson, she appeared to offer a sort of list of potential junkets she’s interested in on her podcast, saying she’d also like to visit Japan and Russia. As someone once said, 'Russia, if you’re listening,'" he quips