A bizarre idea has been circulating across social media: that “MAGA supporters” have moved on from rejecting masks and vaccines to proudly eating raw chicken as a culture‑war statement.

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The claim is meme‑ready and irresistible to doomscrollers. But once the joke is peeled back, what remains is a mix of shock‑influencer content, wellness‑adjacent pseudoscience, and partisan projection — not an organized right‑wing campaign.

In the past few years, raw‑meat and “ancestral diet” influencers have built substantial audiences by posting themselves eating uncooked animal products on TikTok and Instagram, including raw beef, liver, and increasingly raw chicken, all framed as a rebellion against “processed food,” “toxins,” and mainstream nutrition advice.

The posts are designed to be outrageous and shareable, and the politics of the creators range from hard‑right to apolitical clout‑chaser. Their target is not so much the government as the algorithm.​

The Threads profile @viking.health is the latest to go viral, with an over‑the‑top “ancestral Viking” wellness persona that feels one protein shake away from sketch comedy. Is it parody? Performance art? Genuine advice from a MAGA faithful?

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The fact that it is so hard to tell where the joke ends and the advice begins says a lot about the current right‑wing wellness ecosystem, where trolling, “biohacking,” and genuine anti‑expert belief all blur together.​

In a healthier information environment, everyone would clock this as obvious performance art; in MAGA‑adjacent wellness culture, it lands uncomfortably close to things other influencers seem to be dead‑serious about.

Recently, screenshots and short clips of some of these raw‑chicken stunts have been repackaged with captions like “MAGA are now eating raw chicken to own the libs” and “Conservatives refuse cooked chicken because the FDA recommends it.”

In many cases, the posts come from liberal or anti‑MAGA accounts using the videos as shorthand for the broader right‑wing contempt for expertise, especially around public health. In others, they appear in meme groups where the line between satire and sincere ridicule is deliberately blurry.​

What is missing from this narrative is any evidence that the Republican Party, Trump‑aligned media, or prominent MAGA influencers have embraced raw chicken as a deliberate culture‑war symbol.

There are no viral speeches railing against “Big Chicken Cookers,” no coordinated campaigns, and no policy cranks holding up supermarket drumsticks on cable news (at least, not yet).

Instead, the raw‑chicken stunt sits at the intersection of two overlapping phenomena: a long‑running raw‑meat fringe and a right‑leaning skepticism of institutions — from vaccines to pasteurization — that has gotten validation directly from the Oval Office.​

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The danger is not that millions of Trump voters will suddenly abandon their ovens out of loyalty to Donald Trump.

The danger is that the same anti‑expert ecosystem that undermined trust in vaccines and basic public‑health guidance creates fertile ground for people to take up genuinely hazardous behavior.