Milo Yiannopoulos Says He Is ‘Very Ashamed’ of Supporting Trump After ICE Deportation

Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos said he regrets supporting President Donald Trump after federal immigration officers detained him and deported him to the United Kingdom.

Yiannopoulos told British commentator Piers Morgan during an appearance on the YouTube program “Uncensored” that the Trump administration has “devolved into the Loomer admin.”

The remark referred to far-right influencer Laura Loomer, who claimed credit for reporting Yiannopoulos to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Yiannopoulos said the “promise and hope and joy and anticipation” surrounding Trump’s 2016 campaign had, over the following decade, collapsed into what he described as an “ugly, warmongering” administration influenced by unstable individuals.

“If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place,” Yiannopoulos said. “And I’m very ashamed that I did.”

ICE officers detained Yiannopoulos Thursday night at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana, according to TMZ. He was preparing to attend a Friday concert in New Orleans for Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

Yiannopoulos, who has previously criticized immigrants living in the country illegally and supported Trump’s deportation policies, was sent back to Britain on Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos legally entered the United States on May 14. Federal officials said an immigration judge issued a final removal order on July 22 after he failed to appear at an immigration hearing.

Speaking in a noticeably lowered tone, Yiannopoulos described his detention and passage through the immigration system as “humiliating and disorienting.” He also claimed he experienced “brutality” during the process.

“It was physically degrading, it was frightening,” he told Morgan, adding that he wept for approximately an hour following the experience.

Yiannopoulos acknowledged that he had previously been “a little bit blase” and “cavalier” when hearing other people describe traumatic experiences. He said his detention gave him a new understanding of those accounts.

“I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” he said.

Yiannopoulos also rejected White House border czar Tom Homan’s claim that he had overstayed his visa. He said he is married to an American and entered the country with an O-1 visa, a nonimmigrant work permit intended for individuals with “extraordinary ability.”

He said he applied to adjust his immigration status from a visa to a green card but never received notices about the hearing because they were sent to an old address.

Yiannopoulos also discussed his past connection to Loomer. He said he worked on her unsuccessful 2020 congressional campaign in Florida and had been positioned to become her communications director before concluding that “there was something very, very wrong with her.”

He characterized Loomer’s relationship with Trump as “symbiotic” and claimed the president “lets her run riot.” Morgan stopped Yiannopoulos from elaborating, citing British defamation law.

Yiannopoulos rose to prominence through his work at Breitbart News. He resigned as a senior editor in 2017 after making remarks that appeared to condone pedophilia, comments for which he later apologized.