Why we should stop calling Trump’s supporters the alt right

“The press has clearly chose to double down and wage war against the legitimacy of Trump and the continued existence of white America”, says Spencer.

“There’s an ironic exuberance to it all”, Spencer claimed.

“Breitbart is just a publication”, Mr. Trump told the newspaper.

A post on Reddit’s r/altright board, one of the movement’s bases, linked to Trump’s disavowal and asked: “Anyone here feeling bamboozled by the Donald?”

Trump’s denunciation also comes amid continued criticism over Trump tapping Steve Bannon, who managed the final months of the billionaire businessman’s presidential campaign, as chief White House strategist.

Journalists and Democratic partisans have pilloried Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, for saying in July that his website had become ‘the platform for the alt-right’.

If the major news media wouldn’t have attempted to confuse Trump supporters with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, then Spencer’s group could have been denied the publicity that it so obviously desired. “They cover stories like you cover stories”, Trump said, according to a report by the BBC.

Even Trump, Spencer warned the white supremacist audience, has taken positions that are in his view too friendly to minorities and Jewish people.

The article praised the appointment of Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general, suggesting that “Trump is making a point by putting an aggressive anti-Black racist in as AG”.

In light of the video’s release, the Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned Spencer for invoking the Nazi salute.

The agenda of the National Policy Institute’s Saturday meeting included a breakdown of the 2016 election and plans for the growth of the alt-right. Trump has denounced racism and rejected the endorsements, but he has typically done so only when prompted by the media.

In one of his most direct repudiations of the once-fringe movement’s proximity to his bid for the presidency, Trump finally said Tuesday that “it’s not a group I want to energize”, during an on-the-record sit-down with the New York Times. The restaurant added that it was donating $10,000, its Friday sales, to the Anti-Defamation League’s D.C. office. The term was officially coined in 2008 as a way to refer to the extremist movement.

“A pig could put lipstick on itself”. There are some women involved with the alt-right, Hawley told The Washington Post, but “this movement in particular is more appealing to men, particularly given the degree to which it is also a very outspoken anti-feminist movement”.