Nick Fuentes

In January 2020, Fuentes' YouTube channel was demonetized and one of his videos was removed by YouTube as a violation of their hate speech policies. Fuentes had previously been banned from Twitch and from Reddit. On February 14, 2020, his YouTube channel was terminated for violating policies on hate speech.

He has received support from conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, who agreed to speak at Fuentes' "America First Political Action Conference" in February 2020. As a result of supporting him, Malkin was promptly fired by the Young America's Foundation where she had been employed for 28 years.

Fuentes has feuded with Turning Point USA and its founder, Charlie Kirk, for supporting views that Fuentes believes to be insufficiently conservative. On October 29, 2019, his followers, known as Groypers, began heckling Turning Point's Culture War Tour, including a speaking event for Donald Trump Jr.

In January 2019, Fuentes aired a monologue in which he compared the Holocaust to a cookie-baking operation, which has led to accusations of Holocaust denial. Fuentes later disputed that he had ever denied the Holocaust, calling his monologue a "lampoon".

Fuentes has repeatedly criticized Turning Point USA and its founder Charlie Kirk, accusing them of betraying Donald Trump by advocating in favor of mass legal immigration, support in foreign aid for Israel and LGBT issues. Throughout October and November 2019, his supporters were present at many of Kirk's public speaking events, which have had guest speakers including Donald Trump Jr., Lara Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle. These campaigns frequently involved asking questions that prompt viewers to look up far-right and anti-semitic conspiracy theories and hoaxes online.

In December 2019, Fuentes confronted conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro, who was with his family at the time, outside of a TPUSA event in West Palm Beach, Florida. Fuentes had confronted Shapiro to ask why he had given a speech at Stanford University bashing Fuentes. The encounter was filmed and led to criticism of Fuentes.

He co-hosted the Nationalist Review podcast with James Allsup until January 2018. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "the two had a public falling out with each host accusing the other of laziness, impropriety and a variety of petty slights."

Fuentes attended the August 2017 Unite the Right rally, in Charlottesville, where a woman peacefully protesting the rally was murdered in a car attack. He spoke positively of a "tidal wave of white identity" afterwards.

On his show in April 2017, Fuentes said "Who runs the media? Globalists. Time to kill the globalists" and "I want the people that run CNN to be arrested and deported because this is deliberate." Fuentes also said that "The First Amendment was not written for the Saudi Royal Family". The publisher of the show at the time, RSBN issued an apology, calling the comments "unacceptable" and "inappropriate". Following these and other comments, as well as publicity over his attendance of the Unite the Right rally, he left RSBN in August 2017.

Fuentes attended Lyons Township High School where he was president of the Student Council. In August 2017, he left Boston University after attending the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. He applied to Auburn University for the Fall 2017 term, but did not confirm his enrollment by the deadline. Fuentes is Catholic.

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American alt-right and far-right paleoconservative political commentator and podcaster. He was formerly a YouTuber before his channel was permanently suspended in February 2020 for violating YouTube's hate speech policy. In addition to paleoconservative, Fuentes is a self-described himself as a nationalist and is said to hold white nationalist and antisemitic views.