When President Donald Trump returned to office, the women of the MAGA-movement descended on D.C. in one fell swoop, thrilled at the prospect of the right-wing’s most eligible bachelors.
But apparently, all they found was a bunch of gay men.
That’s according to Steve Bannon’s War Room Co-Host and MAGA-darling Natalie Winters, who said it’s a struggle to find a boyfriend in what’s often referred to as the nation’s gayest city.
“The funny thing is, I had a lot of girlfriends who wanted to move here,” Winters, 24, said, according to a New York Times report.
“They thought the dating scene would be really great, that MAGA would bring in a whole wave of, like, you know, eligible, conservative, smart, enterprising men.”
Instead? “Everybody’s freaking gay,” she said.
It’s not the first time Winters—who graduated from the University of Chicago and rose quickly through the right-wing media ranks—has taken shots at D.C.’s romantic prospects.
In an interview with The Times of London earlier this year where she spoke about trying to find a boyfriend, she declared: “I think most men are gay in D.C.—either out or closeted depending on whether they’re Democrats or Republicans.”
She added, “I want to marry someone who allows me to protect feminine energy in a world that is forcing me to be a girl boss because they keep sending Steve [Bannon] to prison.”
Trump has broken from traditional conservatives with his appointment of several gay men, notably appointing Scott Bessent as treasury secretary, who became the highest-ranking LGBTQ official in the nation’s history.
The New York Times report, published on Tuesday, also highlighted the emergence of a cohort dubbed as the “A-Gays,” the high-powered gay men in Trump’s ranks.
“We’re like Visa,” said Charles Moran, a high-ranking official at the Department of Energy said. “Everywhere you want to be.”
Others include Tony Fabrizio, the president’s longtime pollster; Trent Morse, an outgoing deputy assistant to the president; Richard Grenell, who was put in charge of the Kennedy Center; and Jacob Helberg, an under secretary of state, the Times reported.
But for MAGA women hoping to find love in the right-wing halls of Trump’s D.C., they should not despair: a May survey from the Pew Research Center found that 16 percent of LGBTQ+ adults identified as Republicans, compared to 80 percent who identified as Democrats.
Winters did not return a request for comment from the Daily Beast.
