Another day, another influencer running through the White House halls.

On Feb. 25, WIRED reported that a popular X account known as Johnny MAGA appears to be traceable to a White House staffer named Garrett Wade. The revelations about the account show the growing blurriness of the line between conservative influencer and mouthpiece for President Donald Trump.

In one recent post, the Johnny MAGA account defended an AI-generated video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes that the president posted, then deleted it after people called out its blatant racism.

“The most obvious tell that Trump’s Truth Social post wasn’t intentional is that he would’ve posted the entire thing if he had seen it,” the account posted, along with a clip of the video. “It’s a masterpiece.”

I’m not surprised by the possibility that someone in the Trump administration runs a burner account dedicated to glazing the president. Not trusting anyone on the internet is........

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