Looking to add a touch of star power to your MAGA birthday celebration? Perhaps you need a conservative figure to promote your HVAC enterprise, or maybe some guidance from a Homeland Security adviser for your child’s potty training? Corey Lewandowski might be the perfect fit. As a steadfast supporter of President Donald Trump, Lewandowski is capitalizing on his influence by creating personalized video messages for individuals and businesses, all while holding a unique position within the Department of Homeland Security. Despite the historic government shutdown that left Border Patrol and TSA agents unpaid, Lewandowski found time to moonlight on Cameo, offering customized videos for over $500 each, as per his online profile.

Cameo, a platform allowing users to purchase personalized messages from celebrities and political figures, has seen Lewandowski engage with fans even amidst his significant role in the Trump administration. His most recent video, recorded on Halloween, was sent out during a time when over a million federal employees were without pay. Although he operates at the Department of Homeland Security without an official title, Lewandowski’s status as a ‘special government employee’ has allowed him to keep his financial details private. In a June video, he dons what seems to be an official government jacket inscribed with ‘Presidential Retreat. Camp David,’ as he sends birthday wishes to a boy named Owen. Introducing himself excitedly, he references his past as Trump’s campaign manager and senior adviser for the 2024 election, before wishing Owen a special birthday.

This particular video earned Lewandowski high praise, with user Diana Sani giving a five-star review on June 21, 2025, accompanied by a heartfelt thank you. Just a couple of weeks prior, Trump had convened with military and Cabinet officials at Camp David to strategize a response to anti-immigration riots in Los Angeles. Although Lewandowski is seen wearing a Camp David jacket, it’s unclear if he participated in the meeting or recorded the video there. In response to inquiries from the Daily Mail, Lewandowski explained that his Cameo endeavors aimed to benefit charitable causes, specifically those supporting fallen officers and the military. He stated in an email, “Go back and look at my first Cameo. I said I would donate the money to charity. Do you have issues with donating money to charities?”

Further, Lewandowski told the Daily Mail that he is a private citizen and is not paid by the government. Still, Lewandowski’s online activity promoting his connections to the President has raised alarm among some officials within Homeland Security. ‘Since he’s an SGE, the code of federal regulations doesn’t require him to get authorization for outside employment,’ a DHS official told the Daily Mail. ‘However, since he’s using his access to POTUS it may be a Hatch Act violation. The optics don’t look good at all.’ The Hatch Act is a federal law restricting government employees from engaging in partisan political activities while on duty. ‘Corey is firing federal employees, signing off on billions in contracts, sitting in on classified meetings, and running operations across the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, all while maintaining what amounts to a public tender offer on his own credibility,’ a State Department official told the Daily Mail. ‘There’s no issue with Cameo itself, only the sheer institutional recklessness of us allowing someone with his level of access to operate an unmonitored, for-hire communications channel for at least eight months without a single person in the chain of command raising a flag.’

The State Department official goes on to explain that Lewandowski’s activities on Cameo may pose ‘a serious counterintelligence risk’ because the website allows anonymous users to submit custom instructions to him. ‘A foreign intelligence service, or companies anywhere in the world, could test messaging, insert language, probe for sensitive details, or quietly establish a communication pattern with a senior DHS official. For fifty dollars, no questions asked. For five hundred, he’ll effectively tout your product, your company, your existence with commercial rights to use it however you want.’ ‘This guy exercises more authority than most Senate-confirmed officials,’ the State official added. ‘DHS isn’t a gig economy platform. National security isn’t pay-per-view either.’ The Daily Mail reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment. Under Noem’s leadership, Lewandowski has been granted unregulated control over Trump’s mass deportation agenda. His tenure has been marked by allegations of corruption over his refusal to publicly disclose his finances. Lewandowski approves six-figure contracts at DHS, despite falling outside the official chain of command and having no formal title within the agency.

He joined Cameo in 2019, where he advertises himself as ‘TV Commentator, Campaign Manager Donald J Trump for President 2016, 2X NYTimes Best Selling Author. Senior Advisor Trump/Pence 2020/2024.’ At the time, Lewandowski announced the revenue from the first 45 Cameo requests would be donated to the families of fallen military and law enforcement officers. When asked by the Daily Mail which charity or charities had received the revenue generated from the videos since joining Homeland Security, Lewandowski did not respond. Lewandowski’s Cameo biography reads: ‘Customers frequently request Corey to roast their liberal friends, wish conservative-leaning loved ones a happy birthday, and encourage fellow patriots to keep fighting for the America First agenda. With his no-nonsense attitude and unwavering support for the 45th President, a Corey Cameo is sure to get any MAGA loyalist fired up.’ The account also claims that Lewandowski delivers his videos within 24 hours. Six videos are currently promoted on his Cameo page, including one from October 2024 when Lewandowski did a paid video advertisement for an HVAC company called Air Scientist Solutions in Tennessee. The company’s CEO, Donny Case, gave Lewandowski a five-star review for the video by noting he was ‘professional and above expectations in every way.’

‘I’m here to talk about an amazing person, Donny Case,’ Lewandowski gushes. ‘Now let me tell you, before you know anything about him, that he has invented, founded and started an incredible company because the American spirit always finds ways to overcome. Smart air technology currently makes global news and this can only be attributed to the hard work of guys like Donny and all the great people at this fantastic company,’ he adds. ‘So go out, use this product, it will save you money.’ Lewandowski charges companies and individuals $500 for all marketing videos, along with an additional $50 service charge. The total amount Lewandowski has earned from paid marketing videos on Cameo since the start of the Trump administration remains unknown. His status as a special government employee, which was granted by Noem, allows him to earn private-sector income so long as it does not conflict with his government role. Some of Lewandowski’s videos have been downright bizarre. In 2020, one man identifying himself as Dicky Stock paid Lewandowski to produce a customized toilet-training encouragement video for his child called ‘Mickey.’ ‘Hey this message is for Mickey. Mickey, your daddy Papa Dickey reached out to me and told me that you’re toilet training,’ Lewandowski says in the 2020 Cameo video. You must be a very special little boy. But I hear that you’re starting to use the big boy toilet. So congratulations!’

‘You’re doing a great job with your poopies. Congratulations. I know your mom is going to be so happy and I want to thank you in advance for being a Donald Trump supporter when you get older. All the best from your daddy, Papa [expletive].’ However, it turned out there was no Mickey. A Boston-based comedian, who got an unwitting Lewandowski to make the video, would later laugh that he was able to punk the Trump loyalist. As Lewandowski continued collecting checks from Cameo, the embattled Trump loyalist found himself at the center of multiple controversies inside DHS. Sources say Lewandowski and Noem are locked in a bitter feud with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan over how to enforce the President’s mass deportation agenda. The behind-the-scenes MAGA power struggle has deepened divisions within Homeland Security, pitting officials aligned with Noem against those loyal to Homan. The Daily Mail reported in December that Lewandowski had pressured ICE officials to provide him with a badge and a gun, going so far as to demand them while interviewing a potential ICE director candidate early last year.