Bill Mitchell Breaks the Internet

Donald Trump’s unconventional candidacy has dragged together a ragtag band of boosters, a new celebrity subclass born out of online obscurity. Bill Mitchell, online radio upstart and Trump’s unofficial Twitter mascot, is its king.

And despite an appearance of self-parody, he is genuinely devoted to Donald Trump’s candidacy. “Once I decide about something it’s hard to shake me off of it,” Mitchell tells me in an interview. His steady and smiling delivery of fringe theories gives Trump supporters a fallback reassurance they haven’t seen from their unpredictable candidate. From the moment of the future Republican nominee’s dramatic entry into the race via escalator, Mitchell hasn’t once doubted Donald Trump will win.