Cameron Kasky accused fellow gun control advocate and Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg of cashing in on his status as a celebrity activist.
The conversation: Kasky, who attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with Hogg and helped him organize the “March for Our Lives” protest, vented his feelings in a series of provocative tweets on Tuesday.
- Taking aim at Hogg’s latest venture, the launch of an “activist” pillow company, Kasky lamented that he “spent so much time promising people this wasn’t going to turn into a cash grab.”
- “To those of you who marched, donated, lobbied, and called for change… I’m so sorry this is what it turned into. This is embarrassing,” he tweeted, adding that “everything ends up in a grift” in America.
- Kasky revealed in a followup tweet that he was offered shares of the pillow company but declined “because while I’m kind of a grifter, I’m not that much of a grifter.”
Woke capital: Hogg announced on Twitter last week that he would be partnering with left-wing tech entrepreneur Willliam LeGate to start Good Pillow, a rival to pro-Trump businessman Mike Lindell’s MyPillow.
- LeGate and Hogg aim to “prove that progressives can make a better pillow, run a better business and help make the world a better place while doing it.”
- Hogg said the company’s goal was to “sell $1 million of product within our first year.”
- “Mike isn’t going to know what hit him — this pillow fight is just getting started,” the former Stoneman Douglas High School student tweeted, referencing Lindell.
That was then: Hogg and Kasky were once close enough to spark speculation that they would be attending high school prom together.
- The rumors prompted Kasky’s father to issue a clarification to TMZ, telling the outlet that while his son and Hogg “love each other very much,” their relationship is platonic.
