Trent Wayman

Co-Founder and VC of America First Party of Florida | Republican Excommunicado | If you’re still registered republican, you deserve the crap they spoon feed you

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

Is it a conflict of interest for @EvanPower to be the Chairman of the @FloridaGOP, considering he works for a lobbying group?

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

@JacobEngels @EddieSpeir @JoeGruters @SydneyGrutersFL @MaxJGoodman We will press twice as hard

[Robert Hunter @RobertHunterFL]

@FlanaganMa1582 @wayminator @EddieSpeir Hey Mark, you wanna hear something funny? I recently changed my voter registration from no party affiliation to Republican to get rid of people like you. And you know what the punch line is? I’m not the only one.

[Eddie Speir for Congress FL #16 @EddieSpeir]

Tonight at Sarasota REC — @JoeGruters' backyard — I looked at @SydneyGrutersFL's guy in the crowd and asked:

"Will Sydney debate me?"

@MaxJGoodman stood up: "Sydney Gruters will debate anybody, anywhere!"

Great. Republican primary. One stage. August 18 is coming.

Name the time. Name the place.

#FL16 #AmericaFirst #GOPDebate

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

@JacobEngels The movement is growing

America First Party of Florida (AMF) is rising

@America1stFL
https://t.co/7gMdU1YQ28

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

The Florida GOP is a shell of what it once was. Destroyed by greedy, power hungry lobbyists.

You can thank people like Evan Power and his predecessor Joe Gruters

[Eddie Speir for Congress FL #16 @EddieSpeir]

The establishment spent a fortune last night to show exactly how few people they have left. The Manatee REC held their Summer Kick-Off at Gold Coast Eagle Distributing in Sarasota. Invitation only. Open bar. Setup for 100 people. Approximately 35 showed up. 22 of which were elected officials, candidates and donors. That means 12 REC members. And of the 12 a few of them are there only to watch and report the implosion. No photos and no video allowed. When your own party event bans cameras you already know why.

For those who don't know what's been happening — the RPOF under Joe Gruters has been systematically purging elected Republican committeemen and women across Florida for supporting candidates he didn't personally approve. In Manatee County alone they overturned a duly held election and kicked out roughly 180 active Republicans who refused to bow to the donor class running the operation. That's the context here.

The message to the 35 people who showed up was simple. Stay in your lane. Just be a warm body for whoever the establishment already selected. They also took a shot at America First Republicans in the room. Apparently felt the need to talk about the movement they're trying to suppress.

This is the Manatee Republican Party in 2026. Expensive venue, empty room, closed doors and top down control with no grassroots energy in sight. Perhaps they'll change the rules again and go back to Covid restrictions to coverup the Biden-like energy in the room.

What we Republicans need is the energy of the base. Something drastic needs to be done. I'd start with firing Joe Gruters as Chair of the RNC. When his hometown REC is this sad, it is clear purging conservatives from the party is not a winning formula.

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

@southern_dr @EvanPower He is a complete and total loser. Thank you for your attention to this matter

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

@KellyGr66431372 @ReOpenChris @EvanPower @FloridaGOP @PatronisFL It's legal because the RPOF is a (corrupt) private organization. If he were elected to rep FL2, God forbid, and blocked you from the official rep acct it would be illegal.

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

The @FloridaGOP’s corruption is getting ridiculous. They just purged the Sumter REC — another one added to the list. Every time they think they can’t damage the Republican brand more, they prove us wrong.

Meanwhile, the America First Party of Florida (@America1stFL) isn’t purging anyone. We’re growing fast because we actually fight for voters.

After August 18th, switch your registration to AMF. All the cool kids are doing it.

https://t.co/ArxkyHBzBj

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

The @FloridaGOP’s corruption is getting ridiculous. They just purged the Sumter REC — another one added to the list. Every time they think they can’t damage the Republican brand more, they prove us wrong.

Meanwhile, the America First Party of Florida (@America1stFL) isn’t purging anyone. We’re growing fast because we actually fight for voters.

After August 18th, switch your registration to AMF. All the cool kids are doing it.

https://t.co/ArxkyHB1LL

[America First Party of Florida (AMF) @America1stFL]

America First Party of Florida hosted the first of its kind in Florida - AI Data Center "Awakening Forum" on June 7, 2026.
@rachelforgov @EddieSpeir @VoteForGleason and Bobby Williams were on hand - among others.

https://t.co/E52EGVBOmk

[Eddie Speir for Congress FL #16 @EddieSpeir]

The establishment spent a fortune last night to show exactly how few people they have left. The Manatee REC held their Summer Kick-Off at Gold Coast Eagle Distributing in Sarasota. Invitation only. Open bar. Setup for 100 people. Approximately 35 showed up. 22 of which were elected officials, candidates and donors. That means 12 REC members. And of the 12 a few of them are there only to watch and report the implosion. No photos and no video allowed. When your own party event bans cameras you already know why.

For those who don't know what's been happening — the RPOF under Joe Gruters has been systematically purging elected Republican committeemen and women across Florida for supporting candidates he didn't personally approve. In Manatee County alone they overturned a duly held election and kicked out roughly 180 active Republicans who refused to bow to the donor class running the operation. That's the context here.

The message to the 35 people who showed up was simple. Stay in your lane. Just be a warm body for whoever the establishment already selected. They also took a shot at America First Republicans in the room. Apparently felt the need to talk about the movement they're trying to suppress.

This is the Manatee Republican Party in 2026. Expensive venue, empty room, closed doors and top down control with no grassroots energy in sight. Perhaps they'll change the rules again and go back to Covid restrictions to coverup the Biden-like energy in the room.

What we Republicans need is the energy of the base. Something drastic needs to be done. I'd start with firing Joe Gruters as Chair of the RNC. When his hometown REC is this sad, it is clear purging conservatives from the party is not a winning formula.

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

@FlanaganMa1582 @EddieSpeir Same speech, Mark. Second verse, same as the first.

You still haven't answered the question:

How many votes did you get to become MREC Chair?

I'll wait.

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

Cute nickname, Mark.

Let's talk about what you actually are:

An unelected placeholder installed by the same party bosses who purged duly elected committeemen because they wouldn't play ball.

Organize? You were handed a title.

Win? You were appointed by people who stopped holding elections when they started losing them.

I left a party run by grifters and you stayed for the scraps. And then you became their spokesman.

You call me a grievance machine? I call you what you are: a rubber stamp with a Facebook block button.

See you at the ballot box, Mark. That's the one election you can't cancel.

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

Mark Flanagan was never elected to lead the Manatee Republican Executive Committee.

No vote. No mandate. No legitimacy.

He was installed by corrupt party bosses who couldn't win a fair election — so they stopped having one.

Just like his cowardly handler, Evan Power, he blocks critics on Facebook. And he'll block me on X too.

That's what fake leaders do. They silence the people asking the questions they can't answer.

A real chair welcomes accountability. A plant fears it.

Zero votes, Mark. Zero.

#FakeLeadership

[Ann Vandersteel™️ Renner for Governor of Florida @annvandersteel]

🚨Washington County, Florida — SHOW UP.

PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO SAY NO‼️

There are valid concerns whether a communications tower is a prelude to an AI Hyperscale Data Center..

A 195 foot communications tower is being pushed near Gilberts Mill Road, and residents deserve proper notice, full review, real answers, and the right to be heard BEFORE decisions are made.

Meeting:
June 18
9 AM CST
1331 South Boulevard
Chipley, FL

This is not anti-technology.

This is pro-due process.
Pro-property rights.
Pro-water.
Pro-family.
Pro-Florida.
Your voice matters. Be present. Be heard.
No meaningful notice means no meaningful consent.

cc: @Jacki11445538 @HCTA_WCN @WCSOInfo @Paul_Renner @RennerWarRoom

[Eddie Speir for Congress FL #16 @EddieSpeir]

They're trying to buy DeSoto County.

DCIP Group is offering annual cash payments to put a hyperscale data center in your backyard.

I said it at the BoCC yesterday:

"We'll be patient with the roads. Just don't let the data center in."

I came to represent DeSoto County constituents. Are the commissioners listening?

🎥 Watch. RT if you agree.

#DeSotoCounty #YourWaterTheirProfits #FL16 #eddiespeirforcongress

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

@christi4miami @EddieSpeir @FloridaGOP Well documented

https://t.co/t9NhFyThq0

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

Phase I of the purge began under Joe Gruters—targeting and removing county chairs across Florida who wouldn’t fall in line.

Phase II is now in full swing under Evan Power, with Gruters still pulling strings behind the curtain. Entire county parties have been gutted. Hundreds of precinct committeemen and committeewomen have been thrown out. Chairs removed. Committees overturned.

I was removed as a duly elected State Committeeman as part of this political cleansing—proof that the establishment is willing to nullify elections and silence grassroots conservatives to maintain control.

We’re seeing a coordinated purge of anyone who refuses to submit.

[Trent Wayman @wayminator]

@colsen1776 @EddieSpeir Brevard?