PEPPERONI PICKLE

Roger Stone’s Fans Turn on Him Over Posting Portrait of Him and Pizza

Following backlash from his supporters, the self-described “dirty trickster” responded: “Sometimes pizza is just pizza. Nothing more nothing less.”

Veteran Republican operative Roger Stone had his fans turn against him after posting a portrait of himself with a pizza while wearing a matching pepperoni necktie. The longtime Trumpworld hanger-on seemingly ran afoul of his Pizzagate-believing followers on Friday night, who urged Stone to take down the artwork. Pizzagate is a far-right conspiracy theory that involves the baseless belief that in the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizzeria lies a “Democratic child sex dungeon.” (One significant fact stands in Pizzagate believer’s way: the D.C. pizzeria in question does not have a basement.) “Really? Pizza Roger? Not a very good look with all that’s going on with all the perverts,” one Stone supporter wrote on Truth Social. Another wrote: “Not a good look man. Delete or they use against u.” On Friday night, amid backlash from his supporters, the self-described “dirty trickster” responded: “Sometimes pizza is just pizza. Nothing more nothing less.” Stone didn’t return The Daily Beast’s request for comment on Saturday. On Saturday evening, Stone again took to Truth Social to double down on his love of pizza: “Great Pizza is often found in the most unlikely places.”

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Zachary PetrizzoFormer Politics Reporter

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