Featured Image Credit: @chckpeas/Twitter
Topics: Donald Trump, GoFundMe, Politics, Twitter, US News, Money, Social Media
Britt Jones
Topics: Donald Trump, GoFundMe, Politics, Twitter, US News, Money, Social Media
A woman has alleged that she pretended to be a Donald Trump MAGA supporter to pay off her college debt, and it worked.
We all know that politics can be a touchy thing, and if you’re a die-hard supporter of any political party, there’s a chance that you’re going to get some airtime for some reason or another.
But for @chckpeasm, it paid off big time.
As a young woman who was struggling with her university payments, there proved to be one way that she could get the cash, and fast.
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By appealing to people’s sense of political freedom and protection.
The woman, who is only known as Princess Q on X, revealed her plot in a tweet to her followers, thanking MAGA supporters for supporting her and furthering her career.
She wrote: “Still a big shoutout to the trump supporters who helped me finish school (debt free), move to Los Angeles, and prove myself in social media and marketing psychology which in turn spearheaded my career.”
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So, how did she pull it off?
Well, she initially went viral in 2018 after she sent out a tweet which claimed that her parents 'cut her off' and 'refused to pay her university tuition', after she had tweeted that she refused to hide as a Black Trump supporter.
“I will not hide any longer,” she wrote, alongside an image of her posing in a Make America Great Again bucket hat. “The left has made us feel as if us black Republicans should hide. But not anymore.”
She explained that her parents cut her off after reading her social media revelation and asked kind people online to help her to fund her education via a GoFundMe link, writing: “If you find it in your hearts to help this young, black republican pay for school it would be appreciated.”
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Also known as Quran, she went on to tell the truth to Elle magazine after funding her college degree.
She shared that she was not a MAGA supporter, and that she made it all up for financial gain.
Now, if you thought she only bagged a couple thousand dollars after asking for donations, you’d be so off base.
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In fact, she revealed that the whole scam was revealed as a lie just one day later, after she collected 'in the neighborhood of $150,000'.
As for her motives, she said she did it to bring attention to the 2018 election, and to stop people from voting for the Republicans.
She said: “Voting is coming up so I just wanted to remind people that Republicans are stupid and shouldn’t hold the majority anymore.
“Minimum wage is pathetically low and it’s not a living wage either so how are we supposed to survive?'
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“And then the people who say ‘go to college and get a better job,’ like anyone can afford that, and it won’t guarantee you a job either.”
She added that the whole thing was meant to be a 'joke,' as she ‘saw that other black girl that posted about being a black Trump supporter and I wanted to make fun of her'.
While she said that she gave the money back, she instead admitted to making that part of the 'narrative' up so that she could avoid 'weirdos' coming after her.
She said: “The Trumpies saw my old tweets about Obama and realized maybe I might have been lying. But I was faster and took everything before it could be taken from me.”