Bobbi Althoff wants to interview President Donald Trump on her podcast.
After telling her TikTok followers that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “kidnapped” and detained her family friend, Althoff addressed a video to Trump asking for him to agree to an interview on Not This Again.
“President Trump, if you’re watching this, I'm asking you to please sit down and have an interview with me," said Althoff, 28. “I think that perhaps you surround yourself with people who agree with you, and maybe you need to hear another perspective.”
“As someone who grew up very Republican, very conservative, very Christian, and as someone who has a lot of family members still like that, I think we could have a good conversation, and I could open your mind to things you’re closed to,” she added.
Althoff then addressed anyone who’d be upset with her speaking with the president.
“I think that a huge problem is that people aren’t willing to speak with people with other beliefs,” she said. “I grew up so Republican, so conservative, until I met my ex-husband."
The influencer was married to author Cory Althoff for four years before they divorced in 2024.
“At 21, I completely did a 180 and I realized that I didn’t know everything and that I was wrong and that I was OK to be wrong, and that it’s OK to change your mind,” she continued in her video. “For this world to get better, people need to change their minds and open their minds, and get new opinions.”
Althoff’s message to the president comes two days after she revealed that someone who's been close to her family for over 20 years was detained by ICE.
The podcaster described the person as "someone who does nothing other than work really fucking hard to provide for his family" and who doesn't have a criminal record.
"Kidnapped in broad daylight by men who came up in an unmarked Nissan with blacked-out windows," Althoff said in a TikTok video. "He was not read his rights. He was not even talked to like he was a real fucking human."
Althoff then explained her difficulty contacting the ICE facility where her friend is being held, referring to the staff who work there as “fucking assholes.”
"Every single time I’ve had to call there, they’ve been nothing but rude," Althoff said. "None of them has to identify themselves. They get to abuse their power, they get to abuse their control and keep these people in horrible, horrible conditions.
"I don’t care whether or not you’re Republican or Democrat," she continued. "This is a human rights issue. Racial profiling is not acceptable. What’s happening everywhere right now is not acceptable, and it is one step closer to a dictatorship."