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    Finding Mr Alt-Right: my adventures on a dating site for Trump fans

    Republican singletons were excited to hear about the launch of Trump Dating. The temptation to connect with the morally bankrupt fascist of my dreams was too much to resist
    by Arwa Mahdawi Feb 20, 2018 4 minutes
    Supporters watch President-Elect Donald Trump in Des Moines, Iowa on December 8, 2016 during the USA Thank You Tour 2016 at the Hy-Vee Hall in the Iowa Events Center. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY / Getty Images

    I’m not normally in the habit of joining dating apps while already in a relationship, but over the weekend I made an exception. The internet was abuzz with news of a website for Trump supporters called Trump Dating and, well, the temptation to connect with the morally bankrupt fascist of my dreams was too hard to resist. I sat my girlfriend down and broke the news as best I could: “Sweetie, I love you, but I feel like joining Trump Dating is the alt-right thing for me to do. I hope you understand.”

    Succumbing to temptation when you’re already taken certainly seems to be something the people behind Trump. Whatever your relationship status, however, it is important to believe in the sort of good old-fashioned family values the president so stalwartly represents. (It should probably be noted that Trump Dating isn’t anything to do with the Trump Organization itself, despite its history of shambolic consumer misadventures.)

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