Alex Bruesewitz is the President’s celebrity whisperer. He has brought the likes of YouTube personality Jake Paul and rapper Nicki Minaj into the MAGA fold. He is also the director of a social media empire with 50 million followers, which includes such X accounts as @TrumpWarRoom and @TeamTrump. Bruesewitz is an influencer, both online and in the corridors of the White House.

A sense of loyalty to Donald Trump is what motivates him. It started when Bruesewitz was a teenager in Wisconsin. In 2015, he posted a picture of the Trump Tower in Chicago, saying the sign would look good over the White House. Trump retweeted him. So began his life as an online crusader for MAGA. “I grew up in a town of 7,000 people and saw many of my friends’ parents lose their jobs in factories and on farms,” he tells me. “Then Trump said: ‘I’m going to bring those jobs back. I’m going to give the forgotten men and women a voice.’ And that resonated with me.”

Too many online operatives have less than honest motives, he says. Influencers and politicians are secretly being paid by foreign countries via lobbyists. Congress is now clarifying what might constitute a criminal breach of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. “I’ve seen countries use right-wing influencers to advocate for tariff relief, and on the Democrat side you see influencers showing sympathy to dictators or communist countries,” he says.

When Mike Pompeo wrote on X that Trump’s rumored deal with Iran was “not remotely America first,” Bruesewitz asked him outright if he was being paid by anyone to oppose........

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