General Walsh's views have mainly been described as
right-wing as of 2022 and
conservative, which he said he uses "ironically". He has argued for banning
pornography and supports restricting
abortion. Walsh has argued that
ozone depletion and
acid rain were never serious problems
. In 2022, Walsh supported the far-right white nationalist
Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory, arguing that it "isn't a conspiracy theory. There's nothing wild or speculative about it. It's just a fact." After the
killing of Austin Metcalf, Walsh stated: "Young black males are violent to a wildly, outrageously disproportionate degree. That's just a fact. We all know it. And it's time that we speak honestly about it, or nothing will ever change." In early May 2025, Walsh supported Shiloh Hendrix, the white Minnesota woman
caught on video using the word
nigger several times towards a 5-year-old black child and the black man who filmed the incident. Walsh expressed satisfaction with Hendrix having raised $500,000 on the
crowdfunding site
GiveSendGo and hoped that she would raise $500,000 more, saying it was "time to start swinging back". In October 2025, following
Politicos reporting on
a leaked Young Republican group chat containing racist and antisemitic messages, Walsh insisted that the "biggest problem" for conservatives was not sticking together. Walsh has called
multiculturalism a failed experiment he thinks should be abandoned. In April 2024, Walsh generated controversy for praising white nationalist organization
VDARE, claiming it was being targeted by a government investigation due to its "inconvenient and unpopular beliefs". Walsh also said that "40 percent of New York City's population is foreign born. Not just second and third generation immigrants. Foreign born. Almost half the city wasn't born in this country. NYC isn't an American city anymore by any reasonable definition of the term. It's a tragedy and a disgrace." Walsh argued that "The
conquest and
colonization and settling of this land was, overall, a good and noble and courageous thing", for which people should be grateful, and that the colonizers were heroes, but he considers Western countries' "cultural colonization" of Africa about LGBT issues to be wrong, despite
Africa's long history of dealing with these issues before the colonization. He also stated that "All of us today would be in a worse spot if slavery never existed at all across the entire globe" also arguing that African-Americans are much better off in the United States than they would be in the countries from which their ancestors were taken.
LGBTQ+ issues discussing the
United States v. Skrmetti Supreme Court case with U.S. House Speaker
Mike Johnson in 2024. Walsh opposes
same-sex parenting and
adoption. He has argued that it would be better for a child to grow up with a missing arm than with same-sex parents, and described it as "human trafficking" and a "mad scientist horror". Matt has also spoken out against
same-sex marriage, stating that by the same logic with which it is approved, then "An incestuous couple can use this same reasoning as gays, so can polygamists, so can bigamists", and that marriage should be reserved for heterosexual couples because they can have children; despite these claims, he partially approved polygamy, because "at least a polygamous marriage can still be procreative, and at least there’s some historical precedent for it". Walsh has expressed support for the pseudoscientific practice of
conversion therapy, arguing that it is an effective at changing sexual orientation, that sexual orientation is not innate, and that "no sane person thinks that" there are "homosexual infants". In February 2021, after a
Gallup poll showed an increase of people who identify as
LGBT, especially
bisexual and
transgender among in
Generation Z, Walsh accused "the media, Hollywood, and the school system" of "
recruiting" children into the LGBT community. Other commentators quoted by
PinkNews attributed the increase to an easing of social stigma among young people. After the
Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Walsh accused President
Joe Biden of
feminizing the
U.S. military and recruiting
lesbians who he said "can't do three pushups", and said that it was "not a coincidence that [Russia's invasion] happened after Biden spent his first year in office focusing primarily on
wokeness".
The New York Times columnist
Michelle Goldberg argued that Walsh's commentary, as well as that of other right-wing commentators, have caused an increase of
anti-LGBT violence and sentiment in the United States. The
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described Walsh as one of the "peddlers of fear and disinformation about LGBTQ people" in the wake of the
Club Q mass shooting in November 2022. Walsh had previously said opposing all-age
drag events was like fighting cancer, and "just like cancer, stopping it is not a gentle or a painless process". Following the shooting, Walsh described critics of his rhetoric as "soulless demons" and "evil to the core", accusing them of using the shooting to "blackmail us into accepting the castration and sexualization of children". Walsh rhetorically asked those on the left who felt that "the drag queen-child combination" would lead to "violent backlash" from right-wingers, "if it's causing this much chaos and violence, why do you insist on continuing to do it?"
Jeet Heer from
The Nation described Walsh's comments as "implicitly a threat," saying this was contributing to "a new
lynching culture, with LGBTQ people as the target." In April 2023, Walsh defended
Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, arguing that LGBTQ rights in Africa were a form of
neocolonialism. The bill would enforce life in prison for anybody identifying as gay or bisexual. Walsh argued that opponents to the bill "don't think that Uganda has any particular right to govern itself and have its own culture and its own way of life." Walsh has also denied the existence of
pansexuality, calling these people "indecisive", and has defined
asexuality as a "dysfunction of the brain" which is commonly "a symptom of spiritual despair."
Transgender issues Walsh has repeatedly opposed the
transgender community notably with his children's book
Johnny the Walrus, Walsh has referred to being transgender as a "delusion" and a "mental illness". He has referred to transgender surgeries as "castration", During his speech, which he later featured in his film
What Is a Woman?, Walsh said: "You are all child abusers. You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult, a cult which holds many fanatical views but none so deranged as the idea that boys are girls and girls are boys." In January 2022, Twitter suspended Walsh's account for 12 hours for tweets it deemed as hateful content against transgender people. In October 2022, Walsh encouraged his followers to
misgender transgender people, writing that "we have made huge strides against the trans agenda", and that the
acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, which he called "the liberation of Twitter", will allow them to "ramp up our efforts even more". In November 2022, Walsh was challenged as a guest on the podcast
The Joe Rogan Experience for suggesting that "maybe millions of kids" had been put onto
puberty blockers. Producer Jamie Vernon interjected and stated that only 4,780 children had been put on puberty blockers within the past five years. Walsh lowered his guess to "hundreds of thousands" and said he "could be wrong", adding, "who are you gonna trust when they're telling you the numbers?" In February 2023, Walsh said he "would rather be dead" than have a trans child.
Campaigns against hospitals providing transgender health care In 2022, Walsh campaigned against hospitals providing
transgender health care for youth.
Boston Children's Hospital, one of the hospitals denounced by Walsh and other right-wing figures, reported harassment, death threats, and a hoax bomb threat in August 2022 that led to a woman's arrest in September. In September 2022, Walsh made accusations against another hospital,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and its transgender clinic in
Nashville, Tennessee. He said on Twitter that VUMC considered transgender health care a "money-maker", that it threatened "consequences" for medical staff who declined to provide care, and that it tried to "enforce compliance" from hesitant parents of transgender youth.
The New Republic described the accusations by Walsh as "cherry-picking informational content" and noted that Walsh had singled out doctors by name. Since 2018, VUMC provided an average of five such surgeries to minors annually. All patients were over 16-years-old and obtained parental consent. None had received genital surgery.
Campaign against Eli Erlick In August 2022, Matt Walsh accused transgender activist
Eli Erlick of being a "confessed drug dealer" after she proposed in a post on
Instagram that she might distribute surplus
hormone therapy prescriptions to transgender youth in states restricting gender-affirming care. Walsh reported Erlick to the
University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was a PhD candidate. When the university did not respond within a day, publicized administrators' contact details while threatening further escalation and protest.
Politicians After South Dakota Governor
Kristi Noem permitted businesses to require a
COVID-19 vaccine for their employees, Walsh criticized her by writing that she was only considered a frontrunner for the
2024 United States presidential election 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". When U.S. representative
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. He launched a
crowdfunding effort to pay for the repairs and raised $100,000 in the first 24 hours, reaching the set goal of $48,990, but the grandmother refused the funds and
GoFundMe shut the effort down after raising $104,000, with all of the money being returned to the donors. Ocasio-Cortez responded to the criticism by saying, "My
abuela (
Spanish: "
grandmother") is okay ... but instead of only caring for mine & letting others suffer, I'm calling attention to the systemic injustices you seem totally fine [with] in having a
US colony." Walsh criticized
Donald Trump in November 2022 for nicknaming
Republican Florida governor
Ron DeSantis "Ron DeSanctimonious" ahead of the
November 2022 midterm elections.
Foreign aid In January 2025, Walsh argued that the United States government should cut off foreign aid for all countries, including
Israel, stating in a tweet that: "Countries that cannot function without US foreign aid should simply not exist. You have no right to exist as a nation if your existence depends on forced donations from the citizens of another country. Take away all foreign aid permanently and let the chips fall where they may". In response to the post, the CEO of
The Daily Wire put out a tweet stating his disagreement with Walsh, indicating that he thought Israel should receive American aid, but that it wasn't a problem that they disagreed.
Entertainment media After the casting of
Halle Bailey in the 2023 live-action version of
The Little Mermaid, Walsh stated, "from a scientific perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean," and suggested that the mermaid should be translucent instead. Later, Walsh said that "
Translucent rights are human rights". He called
anime "
satanic" in an answer to viewers' questions in one of his videos, adding "I have no argument for why it's satanic. It just seems that way to me." In 2025, Walsh announced that he would be releasing a documentary series produced by
The Daily Wire called
Real History With Matt Walsh which "challenges the decades of propaganda, questions untouchable stories, and reexamines the history generations were taught to reject." ==Books==