Matthew Walsh

**Matt Walsh** (born June 18, 1986) is an American conservative political commentator, media host, columnist and author, who hosts *The Matt Walsh Show* podcast on *The Daily Wire*.

## Contents

* 1Career
	+ 1.1Commentaries, controversies, and debates
* 2Personal life
* 3References
* 4External links

## Career[edit]

Walsh began his career as an AM talk radio host in Delaware and then moved to Lexington, Kentucky, with NewsRadio 630 WLAP beginning on June 11, 2012. He worked for The Blaze TV starting in October 2014. He was also a contributor to *HuffPost.* He began writing for *The Daily Wire* in October 2017. Additionally, he has appeared on *Tucker Carlson Tonight*, *The Ingraham Angle*, *Fox and Friends*,[*non-primary source needed*] and *Dr. Phil*.

Walsh has written three books: *The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender* (2017), *Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians* (2020) and *Johnny the Walrus* (2021). *Johnny the Walrus*, a children's book, attracted controversy ahead of its publication for allegorically comparing being transgender with pretending to be a walrus. It was the best-selling LGBT+ book on Amazon in December 2021 before Amazon recategorized it.

### Commentaries, controversies, and debates[edit]

Walsh opposes abortion, same-sex marriage, and is a strong critic of the transgender community. Some of his commentary has been described by media outlets as trolling.

Walsh has suggested that Christians should not practice yoga, on the basis that it involves Hindu worship. He has argued against the necessity of paid paternity leave and defended the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha unrest shooting.

He rented an apartment in Virginia for one day in 2021 to qualify to speak out against the Loudoun County School Board for allowing transgender students the use of restrooms matching their gender identity.

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted photos of her grandmother's house in Puerto Rico that was unrepaired in 2021, four years after Hurricane Maria, and blamed former President Donald Trump for not doing enough to help the recovery, Walsh criticized Ocasio-Cortez for not providing the money herself saying that Ocasio-Cortez could buy herself a Tesla, but couldn't help her own grandmother. As a result he launched a crowdfunding effort to "Save Abuela". He raised $100,000 in the first 24 hours but the grandmother's family refused the funds, and GoFundMe shut the effort down.

When South Dakota governor Kristi Noem declined to ban businesses from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine for their employees, he criticized her by writing that she was only considered a 2024 Republican presidential contender because of her physical attractiveness. After Noem called his comment misogynistic, Walsh said he had no regrets but would "accept apologies from all of the performative idiots pretending to be offended by it".

In May 2021, Walsh called doctors who perform gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth "plastic surgeons basically acting like Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

St. Francis Xavier College Church, at Saint Louis University, cancelled a speech by Walsh that it had planned to co-host with Young Americans for Freedom in December 2021. After controversy at the university, the church said it had decided that Walsh's "provocative positions on immigration, on communities of color, on Muslims, and on members of the LGBTQ community" were "in contradiction to Jesus' great commandment to love God and love our neighbor". Walsh spoke at a different St. Louis venue.

In February 2022, transgender activist Eli Erlick said that Walsh was associated with a scheme "attempting to dupe dozens of trans people and doctors into participating in an anti-trans documentary under false pretenses". Kataluna Enriquez also told of having been approached by Walsh associates.

## Personal life[edit]

Matt Walsh is married to Alissa Walsh, and they have four children together. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.