Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has told France’s far-right Front National that, “history is on our side and will bring us victory” in an address to the party’s conference, reports The Guardian.
Announced as a surprise speaker at the event, Bannon said: “You are part of a movement that is bigger than that in Italy, bigger than in Poland, bigger than in Hungary.”
As Bannon entered the hall to cheers and applause, the US flag was unfurled above the stage.
Although no longer a White House staffer, Bannon, who has been doing a tour of European cities including Zurich, Milan and Rome, praised his former boss.
“Our dear President Trump said: ‘We’ve had enough of globalists’,” he told FN members.
“Today’s politics cannot be summed up by the left-right divide. During the 2008 financial crisis, the governments and banks looked after themselves above all, they saved themselves and not the people.”
Bannon said Trump had three main concerns: stopping “massive immigration”; persuading manufacturers who had left for China to return to the US; and pulling the US out of the quagmire conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“You recall the evening of the American election, the traditional medias were shocked. They could never have believed that the Americans had finally voted in their own interests.
“You fight for your country and they call you racist. But the days when those kind of insults work is over. The establishment media are the dogs of the system. Every day, we become stronger and they become weaker. Let them call you racists, xenophobes or whatever else, wear these like a medal.”