# Does Mike Johnson have a Grindr account? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 25, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267 "2025-10-25T04:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/1 "2025-10-25T04:53:59Z")
Grindr, if anyone here doesn’t know, is a hookup site for gay men, and it gets a lot of traffic whenever Republican men gather, and reportedly crashed during Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. Now, for me, if he is or isn’t, I really don’t care because it’s not my relationship, but if this persistent rumor is true, he at least needs to be honest with himself. I’m saying this, because I found this video earlier today, which includes footage from a German TV program showing Mike and his daughter Hannah at her “purity ball.” Barf. ETA: His Wiki page says it was filmed in 2015, when she was 13 years old. > **[HOLY SH\*T! Mike Johnson’s VIDEO and GRINDR LEAK Just DROPPED](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrEyt7IdjTk%2F)** > > Become a Member: https://www.youtube.com/@keithedwards/joinSubscribe to my Substack: http://keithedwards.substack.comBuy a Democracy Hat: https://keithsdebat... ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/2 "2025-10-25T06:31:47Z")
The “source” of this is an anonymous person on TikTok who goes by “razzledazzmo”, who has yet to provide any proof, just an accusation, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say “no”. > **[The reason Republican 'Mike Johnson Grindr' is trending on social media...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reason-republican-mike-johnson-grindr-001043193.html)** > > Rumors are currently spreading like wildfire about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and the gay hookup app, but is there any truth to them? You really should not trust random YouTube videos making sensational claims that would be all over the legitimate news if they even had a shred of credibility. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/3 "2025-10-25T06:48:20Z")
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/4 "2025-10-25T06:49:43Z")
Closed pending further review. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/5 "2025-10-25T22:22:19Z")
Moderating: > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Grindr, if anyone here doesn’t know, is a hookup site for gay men, and it gets a lot of traffic whenever Republican men gather, and reportedly crashed during Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. After discussion in the mod loop, we have decided to reopen this topic with the following admonitions to you: The source for your assertion is highly questionable. It is basically click bait. We expect posters in P&E to strive to use high quality sources for their information and resulting assertions. You have a history of relying on similar dubious sources for your opinions. In future, start such threads in the Pit. If you open them in P&E, they will be closed. Also, we expect posters to state at least a bare summary of what their intention is for starting a particular thread. You have clearly decided that Mike Johnson is secretly gay and based on this unproved conclusion, you seem to be implying that he’s a massive hypocrite. All true, _if_ the underlying assertion is true. Which is why we want you to make a better effort in future for your links. We will leave it to the community to express why this is such a poor P&E thread, within the bounds of P&E rules, of course. There might be a useful discussion here, but it’s not based on your link. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/6 "2025-10-25T22:22:31Z")
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**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/7 "2025-10-25T22:43:36Z")
I don’t claim to have the world’s most finely-calibrated gaydar but Mike Johnson does set mine off, for what it is worth. Having said that, even if he is as gay as a three-dollar bill, it should be noted that hypocrisy has yet to score a single casualty on the Republican side. They remain 100% immune to it. If a video leaked tomorrow of Johnson starring in an all-male orgy, they’d find a way to say it was okay for him to do it while still passing laws making it illegal for anyone else to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/8 "2025-10-25T22:56:06Z")
Johnson has revealed himself to be a obsequious Trump butt-kisser and a pitiful excuse for House Speaker. That should be enough. Hearing any more about his personal life would probably exceed my nausea threshold. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/9 "2025-10-25T23:04:27Z")
Mike Johnson is all sorts of weird. He used to have his teenaged son monitor his porn usage. > [@](#): > > “It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app. > > “It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.” > **[Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in...](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/)** > > Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022. And he “adopted” a poor black kid before just…abandoning him. > [@](#): > > Johnson and his wife took custody of a Black teenager named Michael 24 years ago and raised him as their son. > > However, others raised questions when it became apparent that Michael was absent from Johnson’s public life, including his absence from Johnson’s [family portrait](https://mikejohnson.house.gov/about/) on his website. > **[Speaker Mike Johnson explained why his 'adopted' Black son is not involved in...](https://www.businessinsider.com/speaker-mike-johnson-explains-relationship-adopted-black-son-2023-10)** > > Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson "adopted" a Black teenager decades ago, but the man requested not to be part of his public life. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/10 "2025-10-25T23:08:55Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > And he “adopted” a poor black kid before just…abandoning him. Newsweek isn’t exactly a reputable source anymore, but it appears the son wasn’t abandoned. > **[Mike Johnson's adopted son speaks out](https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnsons-adopted-son-speaks-out-1840867)** > > Michael James, 40, was adopted by the then-future House speaker, who is only 11 years older, as a homeless teenager. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/11 "2025-10-26T01:39:52Z")
That a parent would be that enmeshed in their kids’ sexuality is just…….weird…… The Grindr thing was just incidental to the purity ball video. I knew he was strange. I had no idea he was THAT strange, or that purity balls still happened in 2015. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/12 "2025-10-26T01:54:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > …purity balls… Band name. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/13 "2025-10-26T01:58:25Z")
I believe its not everyone’s business, nor does it matter. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/14 "2025-10-26T03:28:10Z")
A case could be made, if he was (say) actively working to remove legal protections from LGBTQ people, that his possible membership in that group might be considered the voters’ business. Just like if he were publicly declaring that there are 57 card-carrying communists in the State Department, it would be the voters’ business if he were himself a card-carrying communist or a communist stooge. I do not know if he is pursuing those kinds of goals, I have not been aware of such activities from him personally. In general, I agree that a politician’s personal sex life is not the voters’ business. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/15 "2025-10-26T04:15:59Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate. “I’m proud to tell ya, my son has more than one phone”. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/16 "2025-10-26T04:26:00Z")
Way back when, a closeted gay guy would have trouble getting a position of power because he would supposedly be susceptible to blackmail. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/17 "2025-10-26T04:45:45Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I do not know if he is pursuing those kinds of goals, I have not been aware of such activities from him personally. In general, I agree that a politician’s personal sex life is not the voters’ business. He is, unsurprisingly, a shitbag on the subject of LGBT rights. > [@](#): > > During his ADF tenure, Johnson sued the city of New Orleans in 2003 on behalf of the group over a local law that gave health care benefits to the partners of gay city workers. > > That same year, he wrote a prominent [amicus brief](https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/adf_-amicusbrief_lawrence_v_texas.pdf) in the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, arguing in favor of allowing states to criminalize same-sex consensual sex. The brief argues that sex between men should be banned because it is more likely to spread sexually transmitted diseases than sex between men and women and therefore poses “a distinct public health problem.” [From here.](https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/mike-johnson-house-speaker-lgbtq-views-scrutiny-rcna122317) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/18 "2025-10-26T11:51:50Z")
Yeah, if someone is actively harming the LGBTQ community and it turns out they are gay, outing them is 100% moral. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/19 "2025-10-26T12:23:12Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > if he was (say) actively working He’s not actively working at all right now – keeping the House shut down to avoid swearing in a new member who would vote to the release the Epstein files. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-mike-johnson-have-a-grindr-account/1024267/20 "2025-10-26T16:15:19Z")
Oh, he’s working. Just not for the American people.