Dating app called the Right Stuff courts lovelorn American conservatives

A dating app created by former aides to Donald Trump will be launched next month, promising romance among people who see the world ‘the right way’.

The team behind the new app has promised it will discard the more ‘woke’ liberal services on other popular sites. Picture: The Times

A dating app for conservatives called the Right Stuff, created by former aides to Donald Trump, will be launched next month in the latest attempt to help America’s right wing to find romance in a polarised social and political landscape.

Founded by former Trump White House staffers and backed by the billionaire investor Peter Thiel, The Right Stuff will compete with Tinder, Bumble and Hinge, which conservatives say are biased towards liberals.

The Right Stuff app was founded by John McEntee, a former personal aide to Trump, and Daniel Huff, another White House adviser.

A video starring Ryann McEnany, the sister of Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, was released on Wednesday on which she said: “The Right Stuff is all about getting into the right dating pool with people who share the same values as you. We’re sorry that you’ve had to endure years of bad dates and wasted time with people who don’t see the world our way. The right way.”

Ryann McEnany features in a video for a right-wing dating app that is set to be launched next month. Picture: The Times

The app will be launched next month as an invitation-only service. Women can get free premium accounts by inviting friends, whereas men must pay for the extra features.

“And, by the way,” McEnany assured viewers, “those are the only two options: ladies and gentlemen.” Transgender and non-binary people, a culture-war obsession on the right, will not be invited.

The Right Stuff follows a long list of dating apps aimed at conservatives in recent years, among them Righter, Donald Dater, TrumpSingles, Patrio and Conservatives Only, most of which failed or are now defunct.

“It’s an important, under-served market,” Huff told The Hill website. “Liberals own the education, media corporations, and we can’t let them control our personal relationships.”

The team behind the new app has promised it will discard the more “woke” liberal services on other popular sites, such as users being able to declare if they support the right to abortion.

Thiel, the first outside investor in Facebook and co-founder of PayPal, has put $US1.5 million ($2.1 million) into the Right Stuff.

He has pumped millions into the campaigns of conservative candidates for the midterm elections in November, when Republicans aim to take back control of Congress.

The Times