Sergey Brin’s “MAGA girlfriend” is pushing back on claims that she dragged the Google co-founder to the political right, insisting the billionaire tech mogul’s political change of heart can be laid squarely at the feet of Democrats.
“The Democrats red-pilled him. I didn’t have to do anything,” Gerelyn “GG” Gilbert-Soto told Bari Weiss’s online publication The Free Press last week.
The 32-year-old wellness guru added: “He has a mind of his own. If I could control him, I’d be married with a baby right now.”
Gilbert-Soto — whom President Trump once called Brin’s “really wonderful MAGA girlfriend” — spoke out after a recent New York Times report suggested she played a key role in the tech billionaire’s transformation from Democrat sympathizer to backer of Republican causes and Trump.
The wellness influencer and self-described “Marco Rubio Republican” insisted Brin’s political evolution was already underway before the pair started dating three years ago.
“If he were some raging lib, he wouldn’t be with me, and I wouldn’t be with him,” Gilbert-Soto told The Free Press.
“I wouldn’t date someone who hasn’t already moved over.”
Brin, 52, has increasingly aligned himself with Trump-world figures in recent years after once supporting liberal causes, environmental initiatives and Democratic politicians including former President Barack Obama.
The Google co-founder was worth a whopping $313 billion on Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of Monday — placing him third on the list of the world’s wealthiest moguls.
Silicon Valley billionaires like him inspired a proposed California wealth tax on people worth at least $1.1 billion.
Brin and Gilbert-Soto recently relocated to Nevada from California and have campaigned aggressively against the proposed one-time 5% billionaire tax in the Golden State.
According to reports, Brin has poured roughly $57 million into efforts to defeat the measure and donated nearly $40,000 to Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.
Trump’s “MAGA girlfriend” nickname for Gilbert-Soto came at a White House dinner last year, according to the Times.
“I’m a proud MAGA girlfriend,” she told The Free Press. “People try to use the term as an insult, but all my views are pretty moderate. If I wanted to be popular, I would be a liberal.”
The interview paints Gilbert-Soto as an outspoken supporter of Trump and the “Make America Healthy Again” movement advocated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Gilbert-Soto said she voted for former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while attending Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, but gradually became disillusioned with Dems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“None of it made sense to me,” she said of the pandemic response, adding that media coverage of Trump’s comments after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., also pushed her away from liberals.
“I thought he was terrible, but now I love him,” she said of the president.
Gilbert-Soto described him as “charismatic,” “super smart” and “extremely entertaining.”
She also argued that Brin’s own experiences — including growing concerns about anti-Israel sentiment on the left following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack — played a major role in his political realignment.
“October 7 was also a big deal for him,” she said.
Brin, who emigrated from the Soviet Union as a child, has compared California’s proposed billionaire tax to socialism.
“I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” he recently told the New York Times.
“I don’t want California to end up in the same place.”
Gilbert-Soto said she and Brin have made some political and philanthropic decisions together, including their donation to Hilton’s gubernatorial campaign.
Still, she maintained that Brin regularly rejects causes and donations she proposes.
“At the end of the day, it’s his call,” she said. “He’s not gonna support something that he doesn’t believe in.”
Gilbert-Soto said the pair met at a party in San Francisco after Burning Man in 2023 while Brin was navigating the fallout from his second divorce.
She described the billionaire as socially awkward and far different from the ruthless image often projected onto tech moguls.
“He was trying so hard to be somebody that he’s not on our first date,” she told The Free Press. “You could tell he was a sweetheart trying to be a douche.”
The couple now splits their time between Lake Tahoe, Nev., New York and Washington, DC, where Brin has become increasingly active in artificial intelligence policy discussions.
The Post has sought comment from Brin and Gilbert-Soto.
