It is a serious setback for Jordan Bardella who intended to stage his rapprochement with Trumpism in Washington. The president of the RN who was to speak this Friday, February 21, during a gathering of the conservatives, “made the decision to cancel (his) intervention” after “a gesture referring to the Nazi ideology” committed Thursday by Steve Bannon.
This former adviser to Donald Trump tuned the arm at the end of an inaugural discourse of the conservative political action conference (CPAC), according to his movement with an approving head nod.
“At this gallery, (Thursday), when I was not present in the room, one of the stakeholders allowed himself, by provocation, a gesture referring to the Nazi ideology. Consequently, I made the immediate decision to cancel my intervention scheduled for the afternoon during the event,” said Jordan Bardella in a press release.
His entourage then specified to AFP that the MEP was aimed well by Steve Bannon, who was the guest of a Congress of the National Front – since become a national rally – in 2018 in Lille.
Jordan Bardella is “a little boy”, according to Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon considered that Jordan Bardella was “a little boy, not a man”, in a video interview broadcast on the website of the website Point After the announcement of the decision of the French leader. “If he is so worried that that and he gets pee like a little boy, then he is unworthy and will never direct France,” added Steve Bannon, believing that “only men or women in hand can lead France”.
Steve Bannon also challenged that his gesture participates in a Nazi allusion, comparing it to “a salvation of the hand”. “As I do all the time,” he said. Trump’s ex-advisor said he had made a similar gesture at the RN congress seven years ago. AFP journalists present at the time, however, noted a gesture that is not very comparable to that of today.
The CPAC, in which the French MEP Zemmouriste Sarah Knafo also participates, was opened Thursday by US Vice-President JD Vance. Elon Musk – which had also been pinned last month for an ambiguous gesture, analogous to that of Steve Bannon – already made an appearance there, during which he brandished a chainsaw offered shortly before by Argentinian president Javier Milei, by his side on stage. In addition to Donald Trump on Saturday, several leaders of the right or far right of the world must make a speech, including Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico or, in Visio, the head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni.