'Mentally unstable grifter’: Trump's most loyal minions ignite circular firing squad

Over the course of the past decade, a number of far-right figures have competed for the favor of President Donald Trump, among whom few have remained as loyal as conservative political operative Roger Stone and MAGA provocateur Laura Loomer. Stone played a key role in advising Trump’s first campaign, while Loomer — after rising to prominence as a conspiracy theorist and alt-right rabble-rouser — became loosely affiliated with his second.

But now, after 15 years of friendship, Stone and Loomer have erupted in a highly public feud, with the two trading blows online and pulling no punches.

The first signs of their break came during the 2024 election, when the two began sparring over Loomer’s attacks on future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Then on Tuesday morning, following news of a potential ceasefire agreement, Stone took a jab at Loomer, posting that she was “reportedly dispondent [SIC] over her failure to goad President Trump into WWIII, killing millions.” This was a response to her full-throated support of the president’s most violent statements on the war.

Loomer then accused Stone of “spewing IRGC talking points” and “vile attacks” against Trump, mentioning a bizarre conspiracy about Stone “lobbying with Somalia and Nigeria to represent Muslims and help them lie to the world about their slaughter of Christians.”

Not to be outdone, Stone followed this up with a photo of a crazed-looking Loomer in a straightjacket, saying she is “delusional” and “slipping into insanity.” He accused her of spreading a rumor that she was having sex with the president (which Stone says Trump found “revolting”), said that Stone “may now be forced to sue you — giving me access to all your financial records, where I will find out whose [SIC] been financing your serial lies.” He wrapped up the post with the suggestive statement, “We both know what women who are paid to do things are called.”

In response, Loomer denied his accusations while taking a sidebar to rant against Muslims and Bill Maher, asserting that Stone had “ruined our friendship with your behavior and your malicious lies.”

Finally in the latest installment of this back and forth, Stone accused her of maintaining her alliance with Trump ally Steve Bannon even though she’d been warned he was “in bed with Jeffery Epstein,” impugned her intelligence and character, suggested that she’s been twice “institutionalized” and that “it will happen again,” and called her a “mentally unstable grifter and fraud," among other things.

This feud comes in a moment when MAGA is more fractured than ever, largely over the president’s attack on Iran, which some of his supporters have called a betrayal of the “America First” principles he promised.

Opponents of Trump are watching such exchanges eagerly, with many popcorn gifs posted in reply to Stone and Loomer’s tweets. As one commenter said, “Well isn't this repulsive little catfight between utter dirtbags delightful?!”