COUNTRY CLUB CONSERVATIVE

Teen Dubbed Charlie Kirk’s ‘Protégé’ Sparks MAGA Rage

Brilyn Hollyhand was seen wearing a pricey watch aboard a private jet on his Kirk-style campus tour.

A teen MAGA influencer billed as the next Charlie Kirk is being called out as a “country club” conservative for flaunting his wealth on his college speaking tour.

Brilyn Hollyhand, 19, a close ally of Kirk’s, enraged MAGA supporters when he posted a video from a cream-colored leather seat on a private jet en route to the University of Arkansas.

“Brilyn Hollyhand here about 30,000 feet up. We are on the way to Arkansas,” he said in the Sept. 25 video posted to X, where he could be seen wearing what appears to Seiko watch, which can run for more than $1,000.

The MAGA boy wonder’s video added fuel to critics of his claim that his tour, “One Conversation At a Time,” was sponsored by the Kirk-founded non-profit.

Nick Sortor, a conservative personality who briefly co-hosted Kirk’s show, said Turning Point is “absolutely NOT sponsoring campus tours for young men flying around on private planes.”

Tyler Bowyer, Turning Point’s head of operations, further clarified how the organization does not sponsor Hollyhand’s “distasteful” tour.

“TPUSA has thousands of chapters. He just set up to speak to 8 or so local ones and is calling it a tour,” the executive wrote on Sunday. “Team is in midst of bigger issues right now and although it has come off as distasteful, usually these things work themselves out.”

Bowyer also said in the post on X that the organization does not employ the 19-year-old.

Hollyhand, who first landed an interview with Kirk as a fourth grader in 2018, said he’ll “do what the Lord has given [him] the opportunity to do” in an interview with the New York Post in the wake of Kirk’s Sept. 10 Utah assassination.

The 19-year-old was also called out by MAGA social media personality, Chief Trumpster, for being a “grifter.”

The online personality further claimed in another post that Hollyhand’s grandfather donated to a politician who later gave him a youth leadership award, substantiated by information from a database that tracks political donations.

And it isn’t just MAGA conservatives lambasting Hollyhand’s meteoric rise.

Will Sommer, a former politics reporter for the Daily Beast, called attention to the Alabama family’s wealth in a Substack article, saying it came from “building affordable housing,” which he called “a cardinal sin on the segregationist right.”

“His vibe is very ‘country club’—and we mean that quite literally," Sommer wrote.

But right-wing provocateur, Laura Loomer, stuck her neck out in defense of Hollyhand, saying the criticisms of his family’s wealth come from a place of jealousy.

“Don’t be so jealous of him because he comes from money and you don’t,” she wrote.

Hollyhand has since come out claiming that the private jet does not belong to him.

“A hometown friend offered to help get me there because I couldn’t afford it,” he wrote.

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