Inside Laura Loomer’s rise: ‘Obsessive’ research, Oval Office visits

The Washington Post ^ | August 05, 2025 | Natalie Allison , Sarah Ellison and Drew Harwell

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Laura Loomer has leveraged a personality that friends label “obsessive” and an extreme loyalty to Trump to emerge as a powerful figure in the president’s orbit.

Laura Loomer’s application for a White House press pass has gone unanswered for months. The jobs she said President Donald Trump wanted her to take working for him have never materialized.

And yet, there she was in the Oval Office on July 24 — her fourth time at the White House since Trump returned to office — after the president invited her during a recent phone call.

It was the latest example of the unlikely access that Loomer, a 32-year-old, Florida-based MAGA activist and right-wing journalist, has with the world’s most powerful man.

Loomer has taken credit for the ouster of several federal employees, including former national security adviser Michael Waltz and some on his staff; Vinay Prasad, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator; and, most recently, Jen Easterly, whose appointment to the faculty at West Point was rescinded last week. Her posts on social media have preceded other high-profile decisions, including the order ending Hunter Biden’s Secret Service detail, which came after Loomer reported that he was being accompanied by agents on a trip to South Africa this spring.

Loomer has remained close with Trump despite what she describes as “contempt” for her by a number of White House staff and Trump advisers. While those close to the president caution that her influence with Trump only goes so far — something Loomer acknowledges — they say it’s undeniable that her persistence and loyalty have paid off.

“I know she’s known as a ‘radical right,’ but I think Laura Loomer is a very nice person,” Trump said Sunday, answering questions from reporters. “I think she’s a patriot, and she gets...

[Da Coyote]

I neglected to read the source, and commenced reading. After noting a particularly childish and not very clever first couple of paragraphs, I looked at the source.
Flush. Flushed again just to make sure.

[ConservativeMind]

Go Laura!

[Stepan12]

Can’t you use it for your birdcage?

[TornadoAlley3]

Looming

[blackdog]

It took three journalists to write that heaping pile of codswallop?

[wardaddy]

Wears dresses too tight

[FreeReign]

In before some posters echo WAPO and trash Loomer.

[Responsibility2nd]

Loomer is a Useful Idiot. But whose Useful Idiot; I do not know.

[blackdog]

I think the Washington Post is obsessed with Laura Loomer.

[Old West Conservative]

Free Republic is obsessed with Laura Loomer

[circlecity]

For me she’s always given off a bit of a kook vibe.

[hcmama]

For me she’s always given off a bit of a kook vibe.

Maybe it's the weird stalker vibe she gives off? All the easily disproven lies she tells? The thousands of dollars in botched plastic surgery that made her appear to be the love child of Pennywise and Jigsaw?

[Tench_Coxe]

A couple handles on here were test marketing the response to the Loomer attacks. One of the handles was a Zeeper.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

One of the handles was a Zeeper.

R2D?

[research99]

"For me she’s always given off a bit of a kook vibe."

Narcissistic self-serving behavior, seeking status through association by denigrating others.

Ultimately this social-parasite personality type always turns on their own claimed group.

For comparison, consider Anne Coulter, maybe now MTG (with the addenda that the origins of Loomer's mean-girl vibe shares much with Kathy Griffin, based on being far from what anyone would consider attractive).

So your perceptions can serve as a prescient warning here.

[Just mythoughts]

Personally, I LOVE how Loooomer sends the ‘holy’ into fits of liberalism .... I personally could not pick Loooomer out of a crowd of any number of women ... but, now I would look for the gal with the tightest fitting dress .... catty, batty kitties... I do smile when she exposes the deep dark swamp parasites ... but, she does NOT shape/sway my day.

[TheDon]

Someone is making good use of her public reach. It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement.

[research99]

"It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement."

Until it is not.

This personality type always turns on its hosts.

[Just mythoughts]

Someone is making good use of her public reach. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement.

I do not know enough to agree or disagree... she literally is not on my radar ... but some of these that post sure have histories themselves and Laura has NOTHING on them!!! The oooooze is tacky...