White nationalist Nick Fuentes, commenting on Steve Bannon’s Nazi gesture, described it as a ‘Roman salute’. The exact same thing he said about Elon Musk’s Nazi salute. 

‘This was some sick s**t,’ NF said on his Rumble account Thursday night after CPAC. ‘Bannon gets up there and says ‘I think Trump’s gonna run in ’28.’ He goes, ‘We want Trump!’ and then he throws up a straight up Roman salute.

‘It’s getting a little uncomfortable even for me! Even I’m starting to feel like that guy in that picture who wouldn’t heil Hitler.’

-French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has cancelled a planned speech in the US, after President Donald Trump’s former top adviser made a hand gesture that some likened to a Nazi salute.

Steve Bannon yelled “fight, fight, fight” before extending his right arm, fingers pointed and palm down, during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) near Washington DC on Thursday evening.

Bardella, who leads France’s National Rally party, was scheduled to speak at the event on Friday. He said in a statement that he was cancelling his appearance over what he called a “gesture referring to Nazi ideology”.

Bannon denied the Nazi comparison and called the gesture a “wave”, saying it was the “exact same wave” he did on stage at a speech seven years ago in France to Bardella’s party.

“If he cancelled [the speech] over what the mainstream media said about the speech, he didn’t listen to the speech. If that’s true, he’s unworthy to lead France. He’s a boy, not a man,” Bannon told the French news magazine Le Point.- BBC

Feb 22, 2025 12:10:41 am