Laura Loomer demanded Friday that Senator Tim Scott resign from his position atop the National Republican Senatorial Committee after he publicly rebuked Donald Trump over the racist Obama video promoted by the president.
Loomer, a conspiracy-driven right-wing media figure who labels herself the Trump administration’s ‘chief loyalty enforcer’ fired off several fiery posts on X about the South Carolina senator – who is the only black Republican in the upper chamber.
‘Someone who is willing to give the Democrats ammunition like that in the middle of a midterm election year is too stupid to be in charge,’ Loomer said.
The NRSC aims to elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
‘I warned President Trump it was a terrible idea for Tim Scott to be chair of the NRSC and he told me to “give him a chance.” I always said it was a bad idea,’ Loomer continued.
‘Donald Trump is WAY TOO NICE to these traitors. I remain undefeated in my ability to detect horrible people for President Trump,’ Loomer said. ‘F*** you! [Tim Scott] Resign, Traitor!’
After Trump’s Truth Social account posted a video overnight that ended with a clip from a Lion King-themed AI video depicting former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys – a longtime racist trope – Scott took to the internet to call the administration out.
‘Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it,’ Scott said.
Laura Loomer (left) called on Republican Senator Tim Scott, the only black GOP senator, to resign from leading the National Republican Senatorial Committee after Scott publicly condemned President Donald Trump over the racist Obama video
Laura Loomer, a right-wing media figure who identifies herself as the Trump White House’s ‘chief loyalty enforcer’ went after Senator Tim Scott on Friday, calling for him to resign as head of the NRSC, which elects Republicans to the U.S. Senate
A handful of Scott’s GOP colleagues in the Senate and House also criticized the video, alongside many Democrats.
A Trump administration official told the Daily Mail that the video was ‘an obvious screen recording,’ adding that ‘the boomer who posted it to X didn’t trim off the excess when the next reel started to auto play.’
The Obama imagery kicks off the longer Lion King-themed reel, which shows other Democrats as animals and portrays Trump as the Lion King.
‘The aide didn’t notice that one second portion at the end of the video and it was never seen by the president,’ the Trump official said.
The video was pulled down from Truth Social, in a rare U-turn made by the White House.
The White House has not disclosed the name of the aide who posted it.
Loomer maintained Scott was the problem.
‘I love how the GOP is so useless but they always have time to attack President Trump,’ she said in one X post.
Laura Loomer (right) poses with President Donald Trump (left) in March 2024, when he was campaigning for president. She called Senator Tim Scott a ‘RINO saboteur’ and a ‘Trump hater’ in social media posts Friday
‘Why are you always working to undermine him? You have always been a Trump hater. You even ran against him,’ she wrote in another.
Scott briefly challenged Trump in 2024 for the GOP presidential nomination, but dropped out in November 2023, before the first votes were counted, and endorsed the former president instead.
After calling on Scott to resign, Loomer reiterated how dumb it was for him to publicly call Trump out, as the two would be face-to-face later Friday night, as the president is hosting Republican senators to dinner once he arrives at Mar-a-Lago.
The NRSC winter meeting is taking place this weekend in Palm Beach, where Trump’s Florida estate is located.
‘Scott could have waited to speak to Trump today at the dinner,’ she said. ‘But he’s always been a RINO saboteur so he did it publicly.’
A source familiar told the Daily Mail that Trump called Scott Friday to let him know that the post would come down – and shared that it was a staffer’s fault.
