This next generation of Trump’s party “leaders” just got caught red-handed—and it’s every bit as disgusting as you’d imagine. A massive leak of 2,900 pages of private Telegram messages among Young Republican officials across the country, published by Politico, has revealed a cesspool of racism, antisemitism, and violent fantasies—all from the people Republicans have been grooming to take over the party.
We’re talking Young Republican leaders—including state chairs, national committee members, and even government staffers—writing that they “love Hitler,” praising Republicans they believe support slavery, and calling Black people “monkeys” and “watermelon people.” They joked about putting liberal critics in gas chambers and “fixing the showers” to make them more “Hitler aesthetic.” They fantasized about raping political opponents and “watching people burn.” These aren’t internet trolls hiding in their mom’s basement. These are elected officials and Republican party insiders—some working in Trump’s administration.
William Hendrix, vice chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, repeatedly used “n–ga” and “n–guh,” texting them more than a dozen times. Bobby Walker, then-vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, said r*pe was “epic.”
Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans, bragged about “creating the greatest psychological torture methods known to man.” He also wrote, “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.” Colleagues from Kansas, Arizona, Vermont, and New York chimed in with Nazi references, Holocaust jokes, and homophobic slurs that would make even 4chan’s darkest corners blush. One literally said, “Great. I love Hitler.”
Giunta also shared sexist, racist messages about female minority pilots: “If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word.”
The group praised Trump for blocking the Epstein files’ release, in which he’s implicated. “Trump’s too busy burning the Epstein files,” wrote Alex Dwyer, Kansas Young Republicans chair.
Politico counted 251 uses of epithets like “f—-t,” “r-tarded,” and “n–ga.”
This is the “pro-family,” “Christian values” Republican youth movement—the future Trump’s MAGA-fied party holds up, while lecturing America about “moral decay” and “law and order” as its leaders joke about genocide and sexual violence.
When leaked, they cried “fake news,” claimed it was “doctored,” then quietly got fired or “resigned to spend more time with family.” One lost a state job; another had a campaign position yanked. But they didn’t come from nowhere—they were raised on Trump rallies, Marjorie Taylor Greene rants, and Tucker Carlson monologues. This is what “America First” has produced: a generation worshiping Hitler memes and seeing cruelty as strength.
Even leaders like Rep. Elise Stefanik—who once praised Giunta’s “tremendous leadership”—now condemn him. Too late. The mask has slipped. The “party of Lincoln” has become one of white supremacy, misogyny, and violence—and they’re proud.
This isn’t just “bad jokes” or “dark humor.” It’s fascism’s normalization—the rot Trump and his MAGA cult have fertilized for a decade, now blooming in the GOP’s next generation.
America deserves better than a party whose youth wing jokes about the Holocaust and dreams of opponents “unaliving” themselves. Republicans can call this “fringe”—but when “future leaders” sound like Stormfront rejects, the problem is the foundation.
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