Riley Gaines Likens Trump Haters to Domestic Terrorists on X
By: Tom Durante (Mediaite)
MAGA darling and former college swimmer Riley Gaines compared anyone wishing for President Donald Trump to "fail" to a "domestic terrorist" in an eye-opening social media post.
Gaines, a conservative commentator who gained nationwide notoriety after speaking out against transgender athletes competing in women's sports, posted the scathing X post on Saturday morning.
"If you wish for President Trump to fail, you wish for America to fail. And if you wish for America to fail, you're a domestic terrorist," she posted.
If you wish for President Trump to fail, you wish for America to fail. And if you wish for America to fail, you're a domestic terrorist.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 16, 2025
The post has been viewed over a million times as of Sunday morning.
The night before the controversial post, she demanded, "Give President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize."
Gaines is now employed as a Fox News commentator.
Last month, Gaines called on Trump to sue her own boss, media mogul Rupert Murdoch , "into oblivion" after the Wall Street Journal published a story about how Trump had written Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy personal letter to celebrate the notorious pedophile's 50th birthday.

I need some clarity - is it permissible for me to say "Fuck You" to Riley Gaines here? If its not, then I wont say "Fuck You" to Riley Gaines for the rest of this seed.
I also note this young lady is developing the MAGA (Maralago) look. Maybe she'll be the new press secretary after Leavitt loses her marbles.
No one lies more, or has fewer marbles.
Rrriiiiigghhttt...
she's way too old for trump ...
Mmmmm,....
Which one of the 50 states is she from?
Such bias,... she has to be from the US to deserve a fuck you?....
I wouldn't put up with that, John. It's clearly off-topic
And what, exactly, would you say the topic is, Trout Giggles? As far as I can tell, it seems to be to find the most emotionally satisfying way to denigrate, shame and mock someone who doesn't share someone else's point of view.
Too bad that it doesn't seem to be generating a conversation about whether what Gains said has merit or not. Instead, the topic seems to be creative personal attacks on an individual, not the merits of the position.
At least, that's how it seems to me. What do you think the topic is?
There are theories as to why Maga women have work done on their face that makes them look bizarre. This is actually a thing. Do you know any of these theories?
e theories as to why Maga women have work done on their face that makes them look bizarre.
1. Who cares?
2. Plenty of non-maga women do it too. For some reason it's a fad.
Riley Gaines said if you wish for Trump to fail you are wishing for America to fail. That suggest that Donald Trump is America. And that America cannot succeed unless Donald Trump succeeds and vice versa. I could just as easily and more logically say that people who want Donald Trump to succeed are the domestic terrorists because of what and who he is. You made comments suggesting it is mean of me to talk about her injecting her lips and making her facial appearance more in line with other Maga women and I am suggesting to you that is 25-year-old young woman wants to please Trump and other Maga and that is why she is in the process of changing her appearance
Are you saying this is the subject of your seed?
Okay. An argument can be made for why that would be true.
Not to me. I could (not would, necessarily) agree that wishing for Trump to fail is wishing for America to fail. That doesn't translate to thinking Trump is America. This is easily provable in that most people on either side are not like Trump. They do not constantly speak in hyperbole or lie. They aren't narcissistic and so on.
First, we'd have to agree on what constitutes what it would mean for America to succeed. And before that, we'd have to identify what it is America should be in order to know whether we've succeeded. That's too deep an issue for something like this.
Which, taking the totality of all you've said about him over the years, you more or less already have.
I made comments suggesting what I thought the topic of the seed appears to be.
Being accused of domestic terrorism for criticizing and rooting against a POS potUS who has pushed every boundary our forefathers set, is disturbing. Trump now wants to do away with mail in ballots, and voting machines, because Putin suggested it. WTF already. If it is not OBVIOUS Trump IS THE PROBLEM, not his critics. This article is just another example of the more than ample, amount, that show Trump is the PROBLEM, not his critics!
I can largely agree with that, just as I can largely agree that Biden's Red speech was even more disturbing, given his position as President of the US. We're not going to get anywhere when influencers at every level rely on hyperbole to move people.
Trump is not THE PROBLEM. He's only a part of it. You are upset because you see Trump and his backers as trying to impose a particular vision of the US you don't agree with. Biden and his supporters did exactly the same thing. Both sides are all or nothing. That is the problem.
Trump most certainly is, and it is so obvious on so many levels, I find it disturbing that you, along with so many others to a far worse degree, seem to refuse to accept as much.
He's admitted to stealing top secret documents that were never his. He summoned his following to DC in an attempt to STOP the peaceful transition of power which has been the rule since our country's inception. "It will be wild" was his social media description of January 6th. It was. He should be in Prison for this act alone, as he tried to blame the 6th on Pelosi as opposed to he, who somehow now has found a way to order the NG to DC, as well as LA, both times without the consent of those in charge in DC, or the governor in Ca. .He is making literally BILLIONS through his Crypto endeavours, has pardoned convicted criminals after funds donated to cause as much, has removed the Inspector Generals and oversight persons from the most important job of keeping shit honest. All as he pays political retribution to any and all who might have been involved in investigating him and his administration of criminals. He is a pathetic child who can be played like a fiddle via compliments and fealty, which is disgusting. He is the most unethical Lying POS ever elected, by far.
There is nothing you can call even close done by Biden to compare to Trumps' ridiculous list that is ever increasing. He is proof ignorance rules, as so many maga refuse to even entertain the context absolutely vital to understanding the actual truth, that a well informed overall picture on provide.
Tump is and will always be, only on his side. Wealth and power is all he desires, and the spineless GOP have given him as much, and the Supreme Court as well, especially in the clutch, as he drives this authoritarian agenda 'right' over his those out so far, and so far it is know good, cause I believe you do, so perhaps reflect upon things and, what we see is not Domestic Terrorism, it is the rightful response to one who has been that first day dicktater twot grabbin back stabbin black lives not matterin, total bullshit splatterin won who lost like US on day one, yet still says not, all as he after being advised by Putin of all people, that he wants to do away with mail in voting and voting machines, after there has been NO credible evidence that they are a problem, for the only new American and American Voting Problem has been, and will continue to be, HE, Trump, the cult leading chump who appears to on Putins' leg, consistently a hump, Putin US ALL in a position so small, Trump IS the problem, and if you give it thorough thought, I B leave you will be left with thoughts similar, cause from the facts we must not defer, for two separate truths do not exist, and as much as he tries, 47 just cannot twist, the actual reality that a view of all the context does show, cause anyway I look at it, it s still Trump, the one that does so thoroughly BLOW, and if a vacuum were he, he'd not even suck, so not a fan of one that blows US for sale into the muck, where we a pier to be moored, and I do believe this just does thoroughly suck, and until un stuck, were are all gonna be a FCK 'd
I'm sure she spent 2021 to 2024 super supportive of Biden and his administration and never said a negative thing about him, right?
I don't know how it's not obvious that Trump is the symptom.
Trump is the current problem, brought about by the dumbing down electorate via propaganda pushed via purveyors of pure pathetic unpatriotic while hypnotic distorted realities that caused many to scutter into echo chambers where as the truth was lost, and Trump was the vehicle for they to say see, I knew it wasn't my fault that so many and I are losers at so much, It's obvious it was EVERYONE and EVERYTHING ELSE, except they and the true cause, so Trump became their vehicle. And as this vehicle, he has gone unchecked, as if given an EZPass as he removed the tolls for trolls and the disdain from racist rhetoric and its undeniable pain
Obviously not, if you think he is THE PROBLEM. You don't seem to realize that Trump is a reaction, engendered by the left moving more and more radically left. While probably not as ironclad as it is in physics, even in politics an action tends to generate an equal but opposite reaction. Trump is that reaction. If not him, it would have been someone else.
The Left appears to spend most of its time demonizing anyone who doesn't fall in line with their worldview. Trump is the reaction to that.
You'd be wrong. What you actually mean is that there's nothing I could mention that you would agree with.
Ore, the irony that you have NOTHING even close committed by Biden.
But do prove me wrong, and let the public side with whom they agree, cause if it'snot you, than it is possibly no one else, cause for me, there is not a bigger crime than the January 6th Insurrection where Trump after stoking the their fears about a falsely claimed stolen election, told his Cult to swing on by, "it will be wild", and they did and it was. If you were one of the few who actually watched the investigation you would be aware, yet, so many didn;t after being told they weren't allowed....WTF peep holes, how can youmake such an uninformed decision without first learning all of the evidence. Far 'right' influencers and media brought US ALL this abomination, right after the Obamanation had done much to make our country the shining leader, all to be brought down by the pussy grabber full of deceiter, who embarrasses our country daily, and does his blackmaily thing, while he should be in prison doing other blackmaley things. He is POS that we don't deserve, also, an Epstein codefendant underage rape accused perve, for all the world to see, except/accept for his cult, which I witness/ yet can't !
"Distorted realities". Right.
You realize we're on a seed about Riley Gaines, yes? Do you know why she's famous?
"Echo chambers". Right.
Have you heard of this thing called BlueSky?
"Racist rhetoric". Right.
Wasn't it Trump who said "if you even think about supporting my opponent, you ain't black"?
"True cause". Right.
Like the "party of the working man" abandoning working class Americans in favor of open condescension toward them?
First, I can't prove you wrong. I can only provide you with my point of view.
How about the inflation reduction act, which enough time has gone by since its passing to determine it had no such effect? As predicted. Instead, it was a duplicitous name for a bill that was just funding Democratic wish list. Or how about Democratic overregulation of businesses and industries, causing the same inflation they claimed to be fighting? How about the refusal to utilize fossil fuels to the detriment of the economy simply because it is a feel-good, virtue signaling issue? How about the fact that green energy isn't anywhere near as green as it is touted to be and we don't have the infrastructure to support it anyway? Just ask the countries that provide the raw materials. But that doesn't matter, does it? After all, as long as it isn't here we can pretend we're responsible, earth conscious virtue superstars.
How about Democrat and other Leftist support for destroying anything that opposes narrative over truth? Like men can have babies, porn in grade schools is okay and men can compete in women's sports simply by declaring they are women? That parents have no rights over their children not given them by Democrats? Democrats being the number one driver of racism since before the 60's?
So, maybe you shouldn't just go after the low hanging fruit. Trump is easy to make fun of but our problems are far greater than him. He's only got another three and a half years in which to be relevant. To my mind, Trump as a problem is nearly nonexistent compared to half or more of the country operating by warm and fuzzy feelings.
How the heck do you call yourself a Christian ?
Pronunciation???
Evangelical Christianity connected to an Identity: Whiteness. It prevalent in this country among White evangelicals. What pisses me off is the pretense! They will BE this perversion of Christianity (in 'yo' face) and never admit to it. Just go around being arrogant and dismissive of 'Outsiders'. . . as if they are something 'Special' when all they are is deluded to think that this entire country is better off with them and their deluded version of Christianity in-charge.
It would seem the 'one-rule' of R.O.W. is to not talk about it publicly in any shape, form, or fashion.
"Religion of Whiteness" is how it is called, maybe look into it.
You are saying white evangelicals are predominately white? That's some ledge you are on.
You (think that you have) got jokes! No. But you know this already. I wrote what I meant:
Interesting piece that omits what the vicious trans activists did to Gaines.
Anyone remember?
She's doing beginning work on that MAGA cosmetic look popularized by Kristi Noem and Kimberly Guilfoyle. That shows you where this persons head is at.
What was done to her John?
How Riley Gaines turned a fifth-place tie into becoming the face of the anti-trans-athlete movement
Based on Gaines’ rhetoric, you might think she lost a championship to Lia Thomas. She didn’t.
How Riley Gaines turned a fifth-place tie into becoming the face of the anti-trans-athlete movement - Outsports
Here John:
"Swimmer Riley Gaines says she was “ambushed and physically hit” and forced to barricade for three hours from a mob of trans-rights protesters who stormed her speech about protecting women’s sports.
The 12-time All-American champ — a former competitor of controversial trans swimmer Lia Thomas -— shared alarming footage of cops hustling her to safety late Thursday at San Francisco State University.
“Why are you running!” one of the protesters yells gleefully — before a short-haired activist jumps in front of her to scream abuse.
“Yeah you f—ing transphobic bitch — I f–ing see you!” the deranged-sounding activist screams as Gaines tries to escape down a hallway.
Gaines’ footage — as well as other clips shared on social media — show security and university staff blocking the angry mob from following the distressed guest speaker as she’s taken to a safe room at 8:30 p.m.
“You crying! You f—ing crying bitch — f–k you!” one of the group screams.
“Bye bitch! F–k you,” the protesters yells, as others holding “Trans Lives Matter” signs chant “trans rights are human rights” and “Trans women are women.”
Gaines’ agent, Eli Bremer, said that she was then “barricaded” in a room “for three hours.”
“The police cannot break Riley free,” he said, with student outlet Golden Gate Xpress showing more than a dozen of San Francisco Police Department cops arriving in several squad cars as backup.
At 11:21 p.m., officers announced through a bullhorn that the gathering was an unlawful congregation and those refusing to leave would be arrested.
Gaines was finally able to leave at 11:38 p.m. — more than 3 hours after being first led to safety — with a huge police presence to stop her from being followed, online videos show.
She later said that she had been “ambushed and physically hit twice” in the mayhem.
“The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU,” she wrote.
“This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I’m doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder,” she said.
Her husband, Louis Barker, also told Fox News Digital that the young swimmer reported being “hit multiple times.”
“I was shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it,” the hubby said. “She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress.”
Footage from earlier in the night showed cops trying to keep the protesters out of Gaines’ talk, with the chants still partially drowning out her words.
The activists — “organized by SFSU’s Queer and Trans Resource Center” — waited outside and then “rushed in when the event was over,” according to a spokesperson for the university’s branch of the conservative group Turning Point USA, which hosted the event."
Riley Gaines ambushed and hit' after women's sports speech at SFSU
Riley Gaines has admitted to having lip enhancements . Initially, she denied any claims about fillers but later accepted that her plump lips were the result of lip injections. While she has not explicitly confirmed or denied speculation about other cosmetic procedures, it is known that she has undergone lip injections.
That is your response to what she went through at the hands of a violent mob of transgender maniacs?
That video is incomprehensible.
Here is what I think about Riley Gaines. She is a MAGA youth icon who said yesterday I guess that people who oppose Trump are domestic terrorists.
Fuck you Riley.
I guess she injected her lips to fit in with the MAGA female cohort.
wow....seems like somebody is trying hijack your seed
Trout I have an electrical issue at my house and I lost my Wi-Fi and I'm using my phone which I don't like to do so I'm not going to spend too much time worrying about what on the seed at the moment
And this has WHAT to do with her calling true Patriots, Terrorists. Just because a treasonous fck violates our Constitution and social and formal norms daily, does not mean that those that call out this, are terrorists. Trump has brought out the worst of US, and we see it on the news everyday. People wanting a pussy grabbin back stabbin Constituion breakin Crypto Crooked 34 times indicted insurrection bakin, organizer and demoralizer of our nation, to fail, do not belong categorized as Domestic Terrorists. They are Patriotic heroes. Now Trump, the one whose Lying should have left him further indicted and imprisoned, deserves any criticism he gets. He's MORE than earned it !
Ok. I'm in a fighting mood today. Sorry
Go get them
Yes! Thanks!
I felt like that once...
You are questioning a 12 time All Americans’ athletic bona fides?
Hilarious!
well, when you are constantly attacking, hurting or killing ICE agents, beating Trump supporters all in the name of "I hate Trump", burn or otherwise destroy private property, including Teslas and their dealerships, and spent ten years trying to get rid of someone who is your president today, then yes, she is right.,
Many Trump haters are domestic terrorists.
Trump wants to turn America into a totalitarian country with him and his cronies at the top. Is it ok to wish for that to fail ?
How about finally stepping up and quoting things he has said, or things he has ACTUALLY DONE to make this country an authoritarian state.
Let me remind you. If he was doing anything that you are fanaticizing about, you would not be posting on here because the use of the internet would be like it is today (Ask Buzz about that), the media would not be reporting his every move because there would not be a free media, Congress would not be in existence, much less he would allow the dufus left wing Congressmen and women say the things he says about them, and other things you enjoy as a free nation that you would not be able to do if it were an authoritarian country.
You have 3.5 years of Trump left.
Do what we did with the dementia boy president and his DEI hire Vp.......sucked it up and voted in a far better person.
The above comment is incredibly ignorant.
She's absolutely right. Can't understand why the progressives want the country to fail, after showing for years that they are totally out of step with the majority of American people's interests and concerns, are on the wrong side of just about every 80/20 issue and are incapable of governing.
Sounds downright unpatriotic
I think progressives want justice to be applied to Trump, and MAGAs think justice for Trump would equate to America failing.
How so,John.?[✘]
You delete most of my post but leave the question up without answering it.
Why is that?
Riley Gaines.
Following the triggered left wing playbook of hating on those not of like mind.
Bummer eh?