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Peter Thiel’s Love Island

When his C.V. became a dealbreaker on the D.C. dating scene, former Trump staffer John McEntee went to Peter Thiel for help launching The Right Stuff, an unapologetically MAGA dating app for finding love in Trumpworld.

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Billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel seeded The Right Stuff with $1.5 million in cash. Photo: Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
October 4, 2022

The days of Mary Matalin and James Carville are over, according to John McEntee, a former Trump bodyman-turned-Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office-turned-co-founder of The Right Stuff, a new conservative dating app that focuses on connecting Republicans who speak the same love language of politics. The 32-year-old claims that young Republicans and Democrats just don’t date anymore in D.C. “That’s a thing of the past,” he lamented to me. “I think the divide is really strong, unfortunately.”