Gun control activist David Hogg says he is starting a pillow fight – against MyPillow CEO and Trump supporter Mike Lindell. The 20-year-old said on Twitter he starts a pillow company and adopts Lindell.
Hogg, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, began tweeting about pillows on Tuesday, tweeting, “Radom Question: What are your main complaints about your current pillow (s)?” His tweet comes the same day as Lindell – a Trump supporter – election conspiracy theories raised during an interview on Newsmax, a conservative cable channel.
Hogg then said he was looking for a consultant, and later said he was starting a business with an entrepreneur William LeGate.
“Looking for a consultant with experience in the U.S. manufacturing industry who can refer me to – and help coordinate – manufacturing a large-volume union and sustainable, rectangular necrosis for bedtime,” Hogg said. tweeted on Tuesday, asks interested parties to reach out to LeGate.
On Thursday, he shared more details about the company and tweeted that the pillows will be manufactured in America and that the company will focus on supporting progressive business. He also said it “will not try to make a white supremacist overthrow of the US government”, and apparently the Trump supporters, like Lindell, who believe in unfounded allegations of voter fraud. Some of these supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, breaking security in a violent riot.
Hogg also said they ‘hope to appoint inceaserateb sooner [sic] people, veterinarians and the workers from my pillow in case we put them out of action, but we need to work out the logistics more on production and things. ‘
Lindell responded to Hogg’s plans for a pillow business and told Axios, “Good for them … nothing wrong with competition that does not infringe on anyone’s patent.”
Hogg tweeted the Axios article On Thursday he writes: “Mike the ‘my pillowman’ comments on his soon to be progressive competition in the form of a progressive pillow business @williamlegate and I start. This pillow fight just became very real. ‘
Hogg said in a tweet that he and LaGate do not yet have a name for the company. “We want to take out the pillow as soon as possible, but we are not going to sacrifice quality for time,” he wrote. another tweet. “It’s also surprisingly difficult to find a union manufacturer of pillows in the US, but we will keep looking. It will just take time.”
CBS News reached out to Hogg and LeGate, as well as Lindell, via MyPillow. A MyPillow representative did not comment on Hogg’s plans for the company, and Hogg and LeGate did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Hogg took on others in public who spread conspiracy theories. “Today we started a pillow business and removed MTG from every committee assignment. Let’s take down all these insurgents with the power of the free market they claim to love,” Hogg tweeted. Thursday, referring to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who removed from her house committee assignments after social media posts and videos she made before she was elected to Congress resurfaced, she showed that she embraces a string of far-right conspiracy theories and proposes support for violence against Democrats.
Greene was also seen in a video Hogg confronts the U.S. Capitol in 2019. The video, which reappeared last month, shows Greene making false allegations and following Hogg, who became one of the leaders of the March for Our Lives movement after a gunman opened fire on his high school and killed 17 people.