In another bid to get back into the good graces of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's fans, gun rights poster boy Kyle Rittenhouse claimed fluoride in drinking water is "making people gay."
Rittenhouse fell out of favor with the MAGAsphere in 2024 for criticizing their Dear Leader on his 2nd Amendment stance. After deleting the critical X post which spawned rumors among Trump's MAGA minions that he was secretly transgender, Rittenhouse stayed off social media until December 2025 when he announced he was married.
Now that he's back, Rittenhouse is regurgitating homophobic conspiracy theories. The teen killer, now 23 years old, told his followers to "drink clean water" to avoid becoming gay.
He posted:
"Prove me wrong. The fluoride in our water is making people gay. Drink clean water."
His misinformation was quickly fact-checked by X users, who added a context note to his post:
"Studies and health agencies find no link between fluoride in tap water and being gay. U.S. fluoridation is set at 0.7 mg/L to prevent cavities, and agencies do not report any effect on sexual orientation."
Experts stressed, again, that there is no scientific evidence linking water fluoridation to sexual orientation.
Rittenhouse's post drew almost universal mockery.
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Before posting his unsupported claim, Rittenhouse shared video of himself appearing on Alex Jones's show.
Jones infamously made headlines claiming chemicals in water were making frogs gay.
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