Myron Gaines, the Sudanese-American Muslim podcaster who has spent the past several years nodding enthusiastically while guests on his show proclaimed that America is a white Christian nation, was reportedly stunned this week after being ejected from Turning Point USA's AmericaFest conference.
Gaines, who co-hosts the Fresh and Fit podcast—a show designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center—had apparently labored under the impression that repeatedly hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and agreeing with attendees who shouted that living around white people is not a human right would earn him a permanent seat at the table he'd been begging to join.
The irony was lost on the 35-year-old former Homeland Security agent as he stood outside the Phoenix venue wearing a hoodie depicting Cookie Monster behind an oven with text reading "Let Em Cook"—a shirt mocking Holocaust victims—only to find that the very people whose validation he'd spent years desperately seeking had suddenly remembered he exists.
Sources report Gaines had been under the mistaken belief that cosigning every white nationalist talking point, from claiming Jews control America to joking about the racist slogan "Around Blacks, never relax" while being visibly Black himself, would somehow make him an exception to the exclusionary ideology he was promoting.
The podcaster, who has repeatedly platformed Fuentes—a white supremacist who openly states America's identity depends on preserving its white majority—seemed genuinely perplexed that this same movement would eventually apply its own logic to him. Gaines had apparently convinced himself that agreeing with a University of South Carolina attendee's declaration that "this is our country that we built" while criticizing Black Americans for having lower IQs was somehow different from acknowledging he himself might be considered part of the outgroup.
TPUSA, the organization that helped launch the careers of countless grifters who profit from stoking racial resentment, reportedly decided that Gaines had finally crossed some invisible line—though observers noted it was unclear whether that line involved his repeated antisemitic remarks, his Holocaust denial hoodie, or simply the optics of having a non-white Muslim visibly associated with their Christian nationalist conference.
