“It’s like having your own personal Deep Throat, your own Mark Felt. The ignition switch, the connection, the conduit,” Lebron wrote in a 4 July blog post. So far Trump has not commented publicly on QAnon but the President courted further controversy when one of the leading lights of the conspiracy theory, Michael Lebron, posted a photo online of him and his wife next to Trump in the Oval Office, captioned, “There are simply no words to explicate this profound honor.” He later deleted the post, which used common QAnon hashtags.
But last week, his son Eric Trump posted an image of an American flag on Instagram with a large Q superimposed over it. So far Trump has not commented publicly on QAnon. “Finally, with the Russia investigation apparently heating up over the past few months, I think more Republicans are getting interested in finding a counter-narrative, which QAnon certainly provides.” What has President Trump said about Qanon? I think the appearance of ‘Q’ shirts at Trump rallies is playing a role, because it's making it feel like more of a real-life thing,” he added. “There's also been more celebrity attention promoting QAnon - Roseanne (Barr), obviously, and now Curt Schilling. “There's a pretty well-laid-out (for an ultimately fake conspiracy theory) QAnon video going around that makes it pretty easy for people who are already inclined to believe in a pro-Trump conspiracy theory but don't want to dig through hundreds of clues on 4chan to understand QAnon,” he told Poynter. That sounds outlandish, but “the conspiracy has gone mainstream because there are increasingly fewer barriers to entry”, says Sommer. It shifted to targeting celebrities who QAnon supporters say are also involved in the anti-American conspiracy they are trying to stop.īut it “continues to revolve around the central conceit that behind the scenes, Trump is really doing something amazing and heroic - that the shambolic mess of a commander in chief the world sees is just a front for a hypercompetent superhero”, he adds.Īccording to Sommer, Q followers, who call themselves bakers because they follow Q’s breadcrumb trail, essentially believe that the US government has been secretly investigating Democrats and the Justice Department will soon reveal compromising information about Hillary Clinton. Since QAnon “first crawled out of the Internet’s churning goo, the theory has metastasised”, says The Washington Post’s Paul Musgrove.
Counting more than 130,000 related discussion videos on YouTube, Time noted the broad reach of the writer’s theories and the prominence of his or her followers. In 2018, Time magazine even placed Q as one of the 25 most influential people on the internet. Listen to The Week Unwrapped team discussing QAnon (from 12.01): “If that’s the idea, it’s a significant misread on both the QAnon ecosystem and the risk posed by giving it oxygen.” “Trump tried multiple times to frame QAnon as overlapping with his (itself heavily exaggerated) war on Antifa,” the paper adds. The president’s comments have been leapt upon by QAnon followers as a “validation” of their views, The Washington Post reports. I've heard these are people that love our country and they just don't like seeing it,” he added, referring to the ongoing unrest in the city of Portland, CNN suggests. “I have heard that it's gaining in popularity. Trump replied: “Well, I don’t know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.
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