Fake Nate donated “$5,000 to Nikki Haley’s political action committee (PAC), Stand for America, three months after she said Trump likely had no future in the GOP.” Fake Nate never bothered to contribute to or support President Trump in any meaningful way until long after Haley’s campaign went down in flames. Fake Nate is not a Trump supporter; he’s just cosplaying one on social media.

Fake Nate hired Obama confidant and Kamala Harris campaign director David Plouffe. Fake Nate lavished Plouffe with praise during the hiring, saying in part, “I don’t think there is anyone in the country with the city, state and federal regulatory experience that David has.” While Plouffe served on Fake Nate’s board, he was also busy tweeting about thoroughly destroying Trump and writing the anti-Trump manifesto, “A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump.” Just like Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign, Plouffe helped Fake Nate run his failing company into the ground.

Fake Nate used his time as CEO to enrich himself, receiving a hefty $41 million golden parachute even though his company never once turned a profit during his tenure. When Fake Nate stepped down as CEO – about only two months after the company went public – its stock was in freefall, dropping 81 percent in value to an anemic $1.41 per share. On the other hand, things weren’t so great for those he left behind. A few months after he fled the company with his hefty payday, Rubicon fired 11 percent of its employees to, ““reduce spending and preserve cash available for the operations.” Just two years later, the NYSE would delist Rubicon, citing a lack of market capitalization, immediately halting trading of company shares in June 2024.

In March 2019, Rubicon announced that “CEO Nate Morris has signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion (CEO Action) pledge.” In Rubicon’s announcement, Fake Nate bragged that he had signed “the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace in the world,” and said it was an “honor” to sign this pledge. Rubicon’s “2019 Environmental, Social, and Governance Report” report touted its “Diversity and Inclusivity” policies, and included a personal message from Fake Nate bragging that Rubicon’s workforce was “globally aware and socially-minded” and in its Form 10-K annual report covering 2022 Rubicon touted how “a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion is central to our core values in all that we do.”

In June 2020, Fake Nate wrote a letter to Rubicon employees justifying the riots that caused $2 billion in property damage and cost the lives of more than a dozen people, including at least one police officer. Fake Nate wrote that “The protests we are seeing are a manifestation of the pain and anger that so many are feeling,” and added, “That pain and anger must fuel real, measurable, and decisive action to light a better path forward.” Morris wrote, “I am committed to doing my part, playing a positive role in fighting the legacy of injustice, and moving us forward as a company, a community, and a country.” Perhaps, if Fake Nate Morris would have felt as passionately about his fiscal responsibilities as CEO as he did in comforting his employees in this time of crisis, he’d still be running the company he founded.

During Pride Month, Fake Nate’s social media accounts were on fire with a flurry of tweets voicing its support for Pride Month, for “Supporting the LGBTQ+ Community and the Push toward Sustainability,” and in the case of this post from June 25, 2021, for doing all those things AND being eco-friendly: “As we approach the end of Rubicon’s #PrideMonth celebrations, our LGBTQ+ Affinity Group is excited to share a list of four businesses that are both eco-friendly and LGBTQ+ owned.” Rubicon was so supportive of these liberal causes that they even tweeted out a picture of the same transgender pride flag that Joe Biden was later derided for flying at the White House in 2023.

In 2020, Fake Nate’s company Rubicon tweeted it had joined the Paris Climate Accord’s Climate Pledge to neutralize its carbon footprint. Fake Nate was so committed to the cause that the third employee he hired, despite the company’s vast and growing financial struggles, would be a Director of Corporate and Social Responsibility to help execute Fake Nate’s Green New Deal vision for the company. Fake Nate directed Elizabeth Montoya to immediately “craft Rubicon’s first Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Strategy…ensuring that Rubicon remained at the forefront of the ESG movement.” Later, in a March 2020 interview, Montoya bragged that she was recruited by Fake Nate “to build a company with core values” and touted that she had turned Rubicon into “a thought-leader when it comes to culture, ESG values, and seeking out people with diverse backgrounds.” 

Leading economists show Fake Nate’s favorite radical climate policies would decimate the coal industry in Kentucky. In March 2017, Tim Doescher and Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation argued that “The Paris Agreement would effectively decapitate our coal industry, which now supplies about one-third of our electric power.” These are the same radical policies that another one of Fake Nate’s hires at Rubicon – Chief Sustainability Officer David Rachelson – “lauded” the US for supporting, saying, Rubicon stands ”ready to help tackle this most pressing of global problems.”

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wrote in April 2020, “the one thing that will get our economy going again: reopening…until we reopen our economy, job losses will continue” and followed up with similar calls in May and June for “Reopening the Economy and Schools.” Meanwhile, Fake Nate was wearing fancy, special Brooks Brothers masks that cost $70, telling his followers on X that “@JaneMosbacher and I will be observing #MemorialDay safely with our @BrooksBrothers masks.” Fake Nate did cash in on the spoils of the crisis, however, writing a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell in December 2020 begging for special vaccine access for his industry, and tooking $10.8 million in free taxpayer support through the highly wasteful PPP program.

In March 2014, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Fake Nate was “among about 200 People from 70 Countries Named to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2014.” The paper described WEF as “a Prestigious Group of Socially Conscious International Leaders” and Fake Nate said he was “honored and humbled” to join this elite group of socially conscious leaders. Two years later, Fake Nate and Rubicon further flexed its global elitism by joining the Council on Foreign Relations. And since 2021, Fake Nate Morris has served as a Senior Advisor for the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security – the Atlantic Council is a Washington D.C.-based think tank and non-profit organization that “Shapes Policy Choices and Strategies to Create a More Free, Secure, and Prosperous World.” Translation: these are people who think President Biden was sharp as a tack and support the never-ending war in Ukraine, wasting billions through USAID, a fully open border, onerous taxes on carbon emissions, and US interference in foreign elections.