Far right lunatic named press secretary for the Defense Department
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The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs is announcing that Kingsley Wilson will serve as Press Secretary for the Department of Defense. Kingsley’s leadership has been integral to the DoD’s success & we look forward to her continued service to President Trump!
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The American Jewish Committee and other Jewish civil rights groups heavily criticized Wilson for posting “antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook.”
She's enough to make Trump wish he could still get it up.
www.military.com /daily-news/2025/03/06/pentagons-no-2-spokesperson-has-long-history-of-antisemitic-bigoted-social-media-posts.html
Pentagon's No. 2 Spokesperson Has Long History of Antisemitic, Bigoted Social Media Posts
Konstantin Toropin 6-8 minutes 3/6/2025
Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon's new deputy press secretary, has a yearslong history of making social media posts that traffic in a variety of extremist rhetoric, ranging from antisemitic conspiracy theories to white nationalist talking points.
In August, Wilson posted a decades-old antisemitic trope questioning the facts behind the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering a child more than a hundred years ago in Atlanta.
However, her history of posting xenophobic comments and echoing racist talking points goes as far back as 2021, and she has repeated some ideas -- for example, that colonialism was a "humanitarian venture" -- many times over the last several years.
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Wilson's posts on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, include her parroting white supremacist rhetoric almost verbatim. Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a Trump adviser who is firing thousands of federal employees and slashing agencies, owns the X platform.
The 26-year-old spokeswoman has called "The Great Replacement Theory," a long-standing and false conspiracy theory claiming there is an active effort to replace white populations with immigrants of color, a "reality."
Wilson also repeatedly argued that American lands were not stolen but "conquered" from the Native Americans. That slogan has been used by the white supremacist group Patriot Front in its propaganda and messaging.
She also referred to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as "one of the greatest Americans to ever live," has repeatedly argued that America is rife with "anti-white racism ," and made numerous posts that claimed colonization of African , majority Black and Central American countries was a "humanitarian venture."
"If you look at those tweets in totality, what it comes down to is that she is an unabashed white nationalist," Luke Baumgartner, a researcher at George Washington University's Program on Extremism, told Military.com on Thursday.
Wilson also heaped praise on the German far-right political party Alternative for Germany, or AfD , which itself has a history of Holocaust denial.
She has repeatedly used the phrase "Ausländer Raus" -- "foreigners out" in German -- and once posted the slogan "Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus." The phrase, which means "Germany for Germans, foreigners out," is considered to be an extremist slogan with neo-Nazi roots .
"If anybody knows anything about the AfD, it's a bunch of Nazis," Baumgartner said. "It's a German political party that uses repackaged Nazi phrasing and advertising."
"A lot of what she says would be right at home in any of the neo-Nazi Telegram chats that I see every day," he said.
If Wilson follows her predecessors in the deputy position, she would be one of two officials responsible for holding regular briefings to the press and acting as the public face of the Pentagon. However, the Pentagon under Trump has yet to begin public briefings.
Military.com reached out to the defense secretary's office on Wednesday with a lengthy list of more than a dozen of Wilson's posts for comment or context. By publication, there was no response, and the posts remain up on her X profile.
Baumgartner noted that, while much of Wilson's rhetoric may seem modern, its roots go back generations.
"She's simultaneously appealing to the new generation of far-right white nationalists, and she's pulling out a lot of the old cards that people from a generation or two ago might resonate with, too," he said.
While Wilson remains silent, her posts have drawn attention from prominent Jewish voices and media outlets like Jewish Insider , which was one of the first media outlets to report the story, as well as lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
On Thursday, Politico reported that her comments have not only angered lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle but led to questions about whether appropriate vetting was done ahead of her appointment on Jan. 21 -- the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration.
Some of Wilson's comments seem to also put her at odds with current policies of the Trump administration.
Although Wilson has repeatedly attacked Ukraine and praised Vladimir Putin , she has also made repeated posts about her opposition to offering aid and support to Israel as well.
On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Trump had approved "nearly $12 billion" in military sales to Israel and was expediting "the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance."
The move prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call Trump "the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House."
The American Jewish Committee, a Jewish advocacy group, called for Wilson's firing in a social media post Wednesday.
"Anyone who posts antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook should not be in public office," the group wrote.
However, the current Trump administration has already shown that it is willing to ignore such calls and stand by staffers who make inflammatory and even blatantly racist remarks.
In February, The Wall Street Journal reported that 25-year-old Marko Elez, a staffer with Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, had a long history of posts that advocated racism and eugenics, the study of how to breed humans for desirable traits.
According to the Journal , Elez's social media posts included comments like: "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," "Normalize Indian hate," and "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool."
After the story was published, Elez resigned, but Vice President JD Vance came to his defense, arguing that "I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life."
Musk, who has his own track record of advocacy for groups like the AfD, said he was rehiring Elez on the same day Vance posted his message on X.
Pentagon aide’s past comments criticized as antisemitic : NPR
Members of Congress and Jewish civil rights organizations are criticizing the new deputy press secretary at the Department of Defense, Kingsley Wilson, for a series of online posts and past political commentary she made before joining the Trump administration.
Over the last several years, Wilson posted and commented prolifically on podcasts in her position at the right-wing think tank the Center for Renewing America . Wilson praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, promoted theories widely seen as antisemitic, excoriated Republicans in Congress who supported Ukraine, frequently used a slur for people with intellectual disabilities and also appeared to support political violence.
Now that Wilson is serving in the Pentagon, her comments have raised new scrutiny.
Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, told NPR Wilson's hiring was "one of the more concerning examples I've seen over the last few months of extremists being given prominent roles in the federal government."
Among Wilson's comments that drew the toughest criticism were those regarding Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched by an antisemitic mob in Georgia in 1915.
Historians widely believe that Frank was falsely accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl, and the state of Georgia granted Frank a posthumous pardon in 1986. But many antisemitic extremists continue to argue that Frank was guilty. In 2023, neo-Nazis protested the Broadway musical "Parade," which dramatizes Frank's trial and lynching.
"Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a black man for his crime," Wilson wrote in 2023 . She repeated the same sentiment in a post last year .
Spitalnick said that Wilson's comments about Frank are especially notable, because they so closely align with neo-Nazi talking points.
"This is something that is a deep cut in terms of the sorts of antisemitic ideas that neo-Nazis and others latch on to," Spitalnick said. "So for someone who is now in a senior role in the federal government to have directly and explicitly engaged in this sort of conspiracy theory tells me that she is frequently trafficking in these neo-Nazi and other antisemitic spaces."
"Anyone who posts antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook should not be in public office," wrote the American Jewish Committee on X, calling Wilson "unfit" for her job.
Mother Jones and Jewish Insider first reported many of Wilson's comments, including her stated belief in the "great replacement theory," which the Anti-Defamation League describes as a "racist conspiracy theory" amplified by white nationalist groups. The "great replacement theory" poses that societal elites, often cast as Jewish leaders, are orchestrating mass migration to the United States in order to displace white people and seize power.
Republican U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer told Politico that Wilson's comments were "horrible" and "just not appropriate."
Wilson is not the first Trump administration official whose online commentary has attracted criticism. Marko Elez, an employee working with the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, resigned over racist posts he had written in recent years. "Normalize Indian hate," one post read. "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," Elez said in another.
Soon after his resignation, the Trump administration rehired Elez, who is 25 years old. Vice President JD Vance wrote, "I obviously disagree with some of Elez's posts, but I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life."
Seen in that light, Wilson's history of extreme rhetoric "should be shocking, but it's certainly not surprising," said Spitalnick, "because this administration has over and over again normalized platformed and emboldened extremism."
The Department of Defense did not respond to NPR's request for comment.
NPR has identified additional comments that raise questions about Wilson's views and the Pentagon's decision to hire her.
In a 2023 interview on the right-wing channel One America News, Wilson said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "should be arrested on sight for what he has done to the American taxpayer."
By contrast, Wilson has praised Putin. Last year, Wilson touted Putin's "encyclopedic knowledge of his people's history," calling it " beyond impressive ." At the same time, she has attacked U.S. intelligence services, which include her current employer, the Department of Defense.
"The American intelligence apparatus is more evil than Vladimir Putin," Wilson posted in 2022 , months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Wilson also criticized U.S. defense contractors for their role in providing military equipment for the Ukrainian war effort.
"The U.S. Military Industrial Complex genocided an entire generation of Ukrainian men because PUTIN BAD" she wrote in 2024 .
Among Wilson's other targets are Republican leaders in Congress.
In one podcast interview from 2024, she said House Speaker Mike Johnson was "weak-willed" and lacked "testicular fortitude," because he supported U.S. aid to Ukraine, adding that continuing to provide military support was "an un-Christian thing to do."
"Mini-Mike Johnson is an embarrassment," she posted later that year .
"DEPORT Lindsey Graham & ship him to Ukraine!" she posted regarding the Republican U.S. Senator from South Carolina over his support for that country.
Wilson is 26 years old and comes from a political family. Her father is Steve Cortes, a former Trump campaign adviser. Like many young right-wing activists, she appears to have adopted a deliberately edgy and often trolling online persona. The Trump administration's media strategy has also shunned mainstream news organizations, while embracing figures who were once on the fringe.
Over the course of several posts, Wilson used a slur for people with intellectual disabilities to attack former Vice President Kamala Harris , members of NATO and libertarians .
And she has seemed to justify political violence.
In the fall of 2022, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, a conservative, called for his supporters to "be peaceful" after he lost his reelection campaign.
Wilson responded online , "I'm so tired of being the 'good guys.' Our ancestors answered violence with violence."
The following year, she wrote , "There can be virtue in violence."
In other posts, she has expressed support for colonialism, the Confederacy of the United States and a belief that the U.S is based on "blood and soil."
"Colonialism was a humanitarian venture," Wilson wrote of Haiti in 2024 .
Wilson called Confederate General Robert E. Lee , who fought to preserve slavery, "One of the greatest Americans to ever live." She also praised "Pickett's Charge," an infantry assault by the Confederates during the battle of Gettysburg in 1863, as one of the most "daring" ever attempted.
In 2023, Wilson wrote that "America is quite literally based on blood and soil."
According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum , the phrase "blood and soil" was "an early Nazi slogan used in Germany to evoke the idea of a pure 'Aryan' race and the territory it wanted to conquer. The concept was foundational to Nazi ideology and its appeal." Some white nationalists have since adopted the rhetoric of "blood and soil" to advocate for restricting immigration, and the slogan was used at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Wilson has also frequently expressed opposition to immigration.
"American communities across the country are being conquered by an invading horde of Third World migrants," Wilson wrote in 2024 . "Foundational Americans, who were never asked or consulted, are being made strangers in their own country."
"I think it's totally fair for us as American citizens to say, 'Not all cultures are equal. I recognize that some cultures don't assimilate well into my culture. And I don't want more of those people here,'" Wilson said on a right-wing podcast in 2024.
This demented child has called for Zelensky to be "arrested on sight".
A neo-fascist, anti-semitic Putinite hired to work in the Trump administration. Surprise, surprise...
They hired her to pour wine down judge jeanie's throat.
Well considering the occupants of the clown car running the pentagon, this is an appropriate spokesperson.