22-year-old Donald-Trump fan is now heading US extremism prevention

An emoji was less common than the rocket with which he commented on LinkedIn on LinkedIn. “Auf And” cheered Thomas Fugate full of optimism at the end of his political studies on his social media channel-that was about a year ago and his start of work actually led him to very high heights very quickly: the (probably) 22-year-old is the new head of US terrorism prevention.

The few pictures that exist from the freshly chicken department head show a young man with a star tie at Donald Trump events. “Perhaps he is a child prodigy and has everything you need to lead the office. But that’s rather unlikely,” says an experienced anti-terrorism fighter, “as if you are making an intern a boss.”

But with an internship, Fugate obviously did not stop at all. It only started in the US Department of Homeland Protection in February of this year-as a “special assistant”. His “successes and working morals”, according to a representative of the government authority, would have led to his promotion without naming details.

His previous experiences: neighborhood gardeners, supermarket fully help and general secretary in a “Model United Nation Club”, in which (US) pupils and students simulate the work of the United Nations. The 22-year-old now has a pot of $ 18 million for prevention projects against extremism and violence.

“Center for Prevention, Programs and Partnerships” (CP3) is the name of the department, which is now led by Fugate and until recently consisted of around 80 employees. According to radical cuts, there are only 20 civil servants left over the CP3, as well as a tasks hickhack that passed the previous boss Bill Braniff in March 2025.

Most recently, he had pointed out that almost 90 million dollars have been provided since 2020 to support communities in combating extremist violence.

The controversial right of right politician Kristi NoEM has been head of the overarching Ministry of Homeland Protection since Donald Trump’s election victory. It leads the authority with a hard hand and monitors her own civil servants with a lie detector tests. Officially to proceed against piercing.

“Prublica”, which first reported on the re -occupation, came across deaf ears when asked about the new on the chief chair. “There were no answers to the attempts to talk to employees of CP3.” Conversations are risky, “according to the portal. Those who have expressed themselves would only have done so for fear of repressing racks by the Trump government on the condition of anonymity, according to” Prublica “.

When looking at publicly accessible information, the portal came across the Fugate Instagram account. There he looks back at his political “awakening” from nine years ago: As a 13-year-old “in a generation without hope, opportunities and happiness in a man saw the ability to real and permanent change: Donald Trump”. Since then, he has described himself as a “Trumplican”-a word game from Trump and Republican, i.e. the party of the US President.

Why someone like Thomas Fugate made it onto the executive chair of the anti-terrorist department-apart from his political attitude-is also a mystery to the employees. One theory is that the government of Donald Trump wanted to reward one of her young campaign helpers with an office, but it was basically abolished and therefore has no influence anyway. According to another consideration, according to “Prublica”, Fugate is a kind of babysitter to monitor the final processing of CP3.

Sources: “Prublica”, “”, “”