Steve Hilton has tried to distance himself from his hero and mentor Donald Trump over the last few months. Unfortunately, there are the photos, the endorsements, the “partnership,” and Hilton saying he was “honored” to have Trump’s support. They are, in fact, best mates.

Steve Hilton has a plan to lower gas prices!

Step 1

Praise Trump’s Iran war as an “absolute masterclass.”

Step 2

Insist the resulting high prices have “Nothing to do with Donald Trump or the Iran War.”

Step 3

Yell about it on FOX News

Trump gutted services and regulations, then handed billionaires and corporations a massive tax cut. Steve Hilton thinks this is an “Incredible” “Triumph of the will”

Steve Hilton says he will have a “Pro-Life” administration that punishes Abortion providers, but that doesn’t mean it’s about Abortion rights. Unserious and dangerous.

Our neighborhoods, our schools, our beaches. Steve Hilton looks at California’s magnificent coastline and our cities, and he sees something else: a lovely place to drill.

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Dangerous MAGA Nonsense

From defunding our schools to cutting down forests to build golf courses, Steve Hilton’s bizarre and desperate ideas would be hilarious if he weren’t serious about them and about handing California to Donald Trump.

School Vouchers and For-Profit Schools

Hilton argued for a “marketplace” of “for-profit schools” to replace public education.

Hilton said we should fund all U.S. schools with vouchers.

(Steve Hilton, More Human, Page 65, 2016)

“Clear-cutting” and Selling off Public Forests for Golf Courses

Hilton wants to open California’s forests to “clear-cutting” and quadruple logging. “To accomplish this, California’s logging industry would need to roughly quadruple in size.

In that same paper, Hilton suggested clearing Yosemite Valley.

(Steve Hilton, Golden Together Policy Paper, February 2024, screenshots below) 

In the UK, Hilton proposed the “Big Society” which included a plan to sell of Britain's forests.

(The Guardian, October 29, 2010)

The plan would sell as much as 150,000 hectares of forest and included plans to turn forests into golf courses, and open Sherwood Forest to logging.

(The Telegraph, via archive.ph, October 23, 2010)

Data Centers

Jan 2025: Hilton lauded Trump's announcement of Emirati billionaire investing $20 billion in US data centers:

"One thing after another with Trump. Practical things. He starts with the announcement of a new investment into America, someone who he's worked with before, who's going to build data centers, billions and billions of dollars of investment."

(YouTube, January 9, 2025)

 "I want every business and every sector in California as governor... all the job creation from AI and and tech is going to other states... even you know like HVAC ducting, for example, you know which is a part of that, you know, data centers..."

(YouTube, May 4, 2026)

Hilton said he would power data centers with “hydro, geothermal, eventually nuclear, and also natural gas.” Hilton: “On electric and water, which are the two sort of drivers of this, again, my approach is we should be having abundant electricity and water in California anyway, as part of my energy policy and water policy that we wouldn't be as concerned about that because we'd be generating abundant electricity using all the means at our disposal, not just what we have now, which is wind and solar. We'd be using hydro, geothermal, eventually nuclear, and also natural gas to generate electricity. That way we could have abundant, reliable, affordable electricity and the data center consumption would be less of an issue.”

(KQED, Interview Transcript, September 4, 2026)

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