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Bannon Salute at Right-Wing Event Sparks Outcry, Even on French Right [1]

['Charles Homans', 'Emma Bubola', 'Michael Gold']

Date: 2025-02-21

A raised-arm salute by Stephen K. Bannon that to many resembled a Nazi gesture incited an outcry on Friday not just from liberal critics of President Trump but also from a leader of the European right.

It came a month after Elon Musk made a similar salute, and at a combustible moment when the administration of Mr. Trump, who has long been dogged by charges of encouraging far-right extremism, appears to be leaning more aggressively into far-right alliances around the world.

Mr. Bannon, a former chief White House strategist and a longtime thought leader in Mr. Trump’s populist movement, denied that the gesture he made Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington was a Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute. In a text message, he explained that he had “waved to the MAGA movement as I always do in my motivational speeches.”

But Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s far-right National Rally, announced Friday morning that he had canceled his plans to speak at the conference after “one of the speakers provocatively made a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/bannon-salute-cpac-musk.html

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