Gateway Pundit, a right-wing conspiracy theory site that has received White House press credentials from the Trump administration, claimed in one post that it was a "red flag" that Hogg was an anti-Trump plant because his father, Kevin, happened to be a retired FBI agent. In another post, the site accused Hogg of "not remembering his lines" in a video of the student stumbling over his words that has since been removed from YouTube, but not before amassing more than 100,000 views.