WASHINGTON – John McEntee, senior adviser to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and a key figure in the former Trump administration, predicted an eventual outright ban on pornography, claiming that once it takes effect, “this country will prosper.”
McEntee made these statements during a interview this weekend with right-wing broadcaster Michael Knowles. McEntee promoted The Right Stuff, a “conservative dating app” he founded.
The full interview is on the paywall, but on the progressive news site Meidas News published Tuesday’s extract.
Speaking of the general topic of dating conservative men, Knowles brought up adult content.
“You’re bringing up the elephant in the room, which is not only a stain on society, but on the entire dating culture – and that is pornography,” McEntee proclaimed. “Every time America bans that, which will ever happen, everyone will do it. be much better off.”
“Once that passes, this country will prosper,” McEntee added.
McEntee has been doing that since 2023 served as a senior advisor for Project 2025, a coalition of conservative organizations led by the Heritage Foundation, whose roadmap for the next Republican presidential administration includes a call to immediately ban all pornography and jail people who produce and distribute it.
The introduction of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership blueprint document declares that pornography is “not entitled to First Amendment protection” and should be banned.
“The people who produce and distribute it should be jailed,” the document continues. “Educators and public librarians who distribute this should be classified as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology companies that facilitate its spread should be shut down.”
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The Heritage Foundation is currently scouting personnel for a possible incoming administration under presumptive Republican nominee Trump.
McEntee, who served as director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office during the Trump administration, will play “a critical role in supporting the Project 2025 workforce pillar,” the Heritage Foundation said in a statement honoring his appointment. is policy,” Project 2025 is launching the database to collect resumes and vet thousands of potential candidates before January 20, 2025, when the next president takes office.”
McEntee boasted that the Project 2025 Presidential Personnel Database will be “of extraordinary value to the 47th president” because the group is “doing much of the most important work of the next administration in advance” and promised to bring “thousands of vetted, trained conservatives from the whole country to Washington.”
McEntee was initially dismissed from his first position in the White House close to Trump in 2018, after it became known that he was being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes, CNN reported at the time.
Before his firing, McEntee was one of Trump’s closest aides and “one of a select group of staffers often summoned by the president to the White House residence,” CNN reported, adding that during the 2016 campaign, McEntee served as Trump’s “body man,” which meant he was “almost constantly at the president’s side.”
McEntee was rehired in January 2020 as director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. He became very close to Trump – who calls him “Johnny” – in the final year of his presidency, including the period leading up to the January 6 insurrection. Atlantic Ocean to dub MacEntee “The man who made January 6 possible.”