John McEntee (political aide)

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John McEntee
Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office
In office
January 8, 2020 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJordan Karem
Succeeded byCatherine M. Russell
Personal Aide to the President
In office
January 20, 2017 – March 13, 2018
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJoe Paulsen
Succeeded byJordan Karem
Personal details
Born (1990-05-09) May 9, 1990 (age 34)
Fullerton, California, US
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of Connecticut (BA)

John David McEntee II (born May 9, 1990) is the founder and CEO of The Right Stuff, a dating app for conservatives.[1] McEntee is also an American political advisor who served as Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in the Trump Administration. McEntee began as a body man and personal aide to the president until he was dismissed by White House chief of staff John Kelly in March 2018. McEntee had failed a security clearance background check and was under investigation by the Homeland Security Department for possible financial crimes relating to gambling.[2][3][4][5] After Kelly was dismissed in December 2018, Trump rehired McEntee and named him Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in February 2020.[6][7][8][9]

Early life, family and education

McEntee was raised in a Roman Catholic family in Fullerton, California.[10] His father is John D. McEntee, a producer/manager who books celebrities for private and corporate functions, as well as for resorts including the MGM Resorts, Caesars Palace, and Venetian Properties.[11]

He attended St. Angela Merici Parish School in Brea, California. Later, he attended Servite High School in Anaheim, where he played quarterback on the varsity football team.[12]

McEntee was a redshirt his first year at the University of Connecticut, and completed his communications degree in the spring of his senior year.

Career

By 2015, McEntee worked as a production assistant for Fox News, focusing on the channel's social media accounts.[10] He successfully lobbied for a job on the Trump campaign, joining as a volunteer in July of that year, later being promoted to a full-time position as trip director.[13] McEntee was responsible for executing the campaign's rallies while traveling with the candidate and coordinating the campaign's travel for all staff.

After Trump won the 2016 election, McEntee was asked to join his staff as an aide, serving as his body man.[3] McEntee accompanied President Trump on all trips, most notably the President's trip to Saudi Arabia in May 2017, where John McEntee "Man in red tie" and Ivanka Trump "#Trump's_daughter" were the most trending hashtags in the country.[14]

McEntee's service in the White House ended on March 13, 2018 when he was fired due to an "unspecified security issue" that was later revealed to be a problem with his gambling debts and an inability to obtain a necessary security clearance.[15][16]

McEntee was hired by Trump's 2020 reelection campaign as a senior adviser for campaign operations. In January 2020, McEntee returned to the White House where he shared some of his former duties with Nick Luna, the Director of Oval Office Operations.[17] McEntee's role was director of the Office of Presidential Personnel,[7] reporting directly to the President. He was tasked with identifying and removing political appointees and career officials deemed insufficiently loyal to the administration, despite having no previous personnel or people management experience.[17][16][18][19][20] His reappointment was controversial given the circumstances of his dismissal.[21][8][9][22]

On November 9th, 2021, John McEntee was issued a subpoena to testify by the House January 6th commission.[23]

Jonathan Karl, the ABC News chief White House correspondent for the duration of the Trump administration, wrote a November 2021 profile of McEntee, characterizing him as particularly subservient because "Trump knew he was the one person willing to do anything Trump wanted." Karl observed that McEntee hired his young friends and, as one senior White House official said, "the most beautiful 21-year-old girls you could find," including Instagram influencers and a dance instructor. Karl characterized McEntee's power late in the Trump presidency:

McEntee and his enforcers made the disastrous last weeks of the Trump presidency possible. They backed the president’s manic drive to overturn the election, and helped set the stage for the January 6 assault on the Capitol. Thanks to them, in the end, the elusive “adults in the room”—those who might have been willing to confront the president or try to control his most destructive tendencies—were silenced or gone. But McEntee was there—bossing around Cabinet secretaries, decapitating the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, and forcing officials high and low to state their allegiance to Trump.[24]

McEntee also sent a series of bullet points via text message to Pence's chief of staff to incorrectly assert that Thomas Jefferson "Used His Position as VP to Win" the 1801 election, which McEntee claimed "proves that the VP has, at a minimum, a substantial discretion to address issues with the electoral process."[25]

In 2021, John McEntee met with Peter Thiel to pitch him on several tech startup ideas, one of which was the idea for a conservative dating app called The Right Stuff. Thiel agreed to fund The Right Stuff and subsequently made a seed round investment of $1.5 million. The Right Stuff launched September 30th, 2022. [26]

In popular culture

In 2011, while he was a college football player, McEntee starred in a viral YouTube video that featured him throwing football trickshots.[5][10] The video was later featured on CNN.[27] Within 48 hours of posting, the video had generated nearly 7 million views and was featured on the homepage of Yahoo.[28] In 2023, McEntee went viral on Instagram and TikTok. On TikTok he has amassed over 190k followers on his company's account “The Right Stuff,” or @daterightstuff, primarily from dancing to the song “La La Land” by Demi Lovato.[citation needed] In these videos, he often mocks the actions and beliefs of those he considers "liberals," leading to those of different viewpoints interacting with his content.

Personal life

McEntee is Roman Catholic.[10]

McEntee is the social media manager for dating app The Right Stuff, for which where he creates viral videos.

References

  1. ^ "Non-woke dating site, backed by Peter Thiel, launching soon". Fox Business. 31 August 2022. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  2. ^ Zeleny, By Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Diamond and Jeff (March 13, 2018). "Longtime Trump aide fired over financial crime investigation | CNN Politics". CNN. Archived from the original on February 18, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b Wisckol, Martin (January 5, 2017). "Former Servite, UConn QB and YouTube star John McEntee picked as aide to Trump". Orange County Register. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  4. ^ Wisckol, Martin (January 23, 2017). "Trump Appointments as of 1/19". washington.edu. University of Washington. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  5. ^ a b Dayton, Kels (January 4, 2017). "Former UConn quarterback Johnny 'Trick Shot' McEntee hired to Trump security team". SportzEdge.com. WTNH. Archived from the original on 2017-08-27. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  6. ^ Karl, Jonathan D. (2021-11-09). "The Man Who Made January 6 Possible". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  7. ^ a b Tenpas, Kathryn Dunn (2020-10-07). "Tracking turnover in the Trump administration". brookings.edu. Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  8. ^ a b Treene, Alayna (13 February 2020). "Ex-Trump aide John McEntee to lead White House office of personnel". Axios.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  9. ^ a b Conradis, Brandon (2020-02-13). "Trump's former personal assistant to oversee White House personnel office". The Hill. Archived from the original on 2020-12-24. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  10. ^ a b c d Cook, Nancy; Strauss, Ben (2017-12-01). "The Trick-Shot QB Who Played His Way Into Trump's Inner Circle". Politico. Archived from the original on 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  11. ^ "Entertainment producer donates big act to church fest". Orange County Register. May 25, 2012. Archived from the original on April 11, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2018 – via ocregister.com.
  12. ^ "John McEntee's High School Timeline". MaxPreps.com. Archived from the original on July 15, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  13. ^ "Rising Stars 2017: Administration Staffers". Roll Call. April 20, 2017. Archived from the original on August 28, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  14. ^ "Man in red tie and 'Ivanka bint' Trump are Saudi Arabia's most trending topics". Arab News. 2017-05-20. Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  15. ^ Bender, Michael C.; Ballhaus, Rebecca (March 13, 2018). "Trump's Personal Assistant Is Fired: John McEntee was escorted out of White House for unspecified security issue". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on October 11, 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
  16. ^ a b Shear, Michael D.; Haberman, Maggie (February 13, 2020). "Trump Places Loyalists in Key Jobs Inside the White House While Raging Against Enemies Outside". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  17. ^ a b Haberman, Maggie (2019-12-14). "Ex-Trump Aide Is Expected to Return to White House". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  18. ^ Olorunnipa, Toluse; Parker, Ashley; Dawsey, Josh (2020-02-22). "Trump embarks on expansive search for disloyalty as administration-wide purge escalates". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  19. ^ Diamond, Jeremy; Acosta, Jim; Collins, Kaitlan; Holmes, Kristen (2020-02-21). "President's new personnel head tells agencies to look out for disloyal staffers". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  20. ^ Dawsey, Josh; Eilperin, Juliet; Hudson, John; Rein, Lisa. "In Trump's final days, a 30-year-old aide purges officials seen as insufficiently loyal". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 28, 2020. Retrieved Jan 25, 2021.
  21. ^ Relman, Eliza. "Trump just put a 29-year-old fired over allegations of financial crimes in charge of all personnel decisions". Business Insider. Archived from the original on December 10, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  22. ^ Baker, Peter (February 22, 2020). "Trump's Efforts to Remove the Disloyal Heightens Unease Across His Administration". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2020-02-22. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  23. ^ Managan, Dan (2021-11-09). "rump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller and other ex-White House officials subpoenaed in Jan. 6 House probe". CNBC. Archived from the original on 2021-11-10. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  24. ^ Karl, Jonathan D. (November 9, 2021). "The Man Who Made January 6 Possible". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  25. ^ Karl, Jonathan D. (November 9, 2021). "The Man Who Made January 6 Possible". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  26. ^ "Non-woke dating site, backed by Peter Thiel, launching soon". Fox Business. 31 August 2022. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  27. ^ Johnny McEntee's football trick shots, CNN, February 10, 2011, archived from the original on November 28, 2020, retrieved January 13, 2018 – via YouTube
  28. ^ Johnny Mac Trick Shot Quarterback, HardcoreHuskies, 2011-02-08, archived from the original on 2021-10-13, retrieved January 13, 2018 – via YouTube

The Right Stuff offices are located in Upper Montclair, NJ 07043.

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