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===Trumpism===
{{See also|New Nationalism (21st century)#United States|Trumpism|America First (policy)}}
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President [[Donald Trump]] was described as a nationalist,<ref>{{cite news|work=[[USA Today]]|title=Trump visits Poland and not everyone is happy about it|date=July 3, 2017|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/07/03/trump-abroad-u-s-president-goes-poland-before-g-20-summit/447412001/}}</ref> and he embraced the term himself.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[RealClearPolitics]]|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/27/trump_i_am_a_nationalist_in_a_true_sense.html|title=Trump: I Am A Nationalist In A True Sense|date=February 27, 2017}}</ref> Several officials within his administration, including former [[White House Chief Strategist]] [[Steve Bannon]],<ref name="whnationalists">{{cite news|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|title=Trump pressured to dump nationalist wing|date=August 15, 2017|url=http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346538-trump-pressured-to-dump-nationalist-wing}}</ref> [[Senior Advisor to the President]] [[Stephen Miller (political advisor)|Stephen Miller]],<ref name="whnationalists"/> [[National Trade Council|Director of the National Trade Council]] [[Peter Navarro]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/bannon-for-president-trump-kushner-ivanka|title="I Have Power": Is Steve Bannon Running for President?|first=Gabriel|last=Sherman|website=vanityfair.com|date=December 21, 2017|access-date=March 31, 2018}}</ref> former [[Deputy Assistant to the President]] [[Sebastian Gorka]],<ref name="whnationalists"/> [[Special Assistant to the President]] [[Julia Hahn]],<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Politico]]|date=January 22, 2017|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/breitbart-writer-expected-to-join-white-house-staff-234016|title=Breitbart writer expected to join White House staff}}</ref> former [[Deputy Assistant to the President|Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications]] [[Michael Anton]],<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Atlantic]]|title=The Populist Nationalist on Trump's National Security Council|date=March 24, 2017|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/does-trumps-resident-intellectual-speak-for-his-boss/520683/}}</ref> [[Secretary of State]] [[Mike Pompeo]],<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Marketwatch]]|title='Congressman from Koch' Mike Pompeo tapped to replace Tillerson at State Department|date=March 13, 2018|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mike-pompeo-the-congressman-from-koch-tapped-to-replace-tillerson-at-state-department-2018-03-13}}</ref> [[Secretary of Commerce]] [[Wilbur Ross]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Trump expected to tap billionaire investor Wilbur Ross for commerce secretary|date=November 24, 2016|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/24/trump-expected-to-tap-billionaire-investor-wilbur-ross-for-commerce-secretary/?noredirect=on|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> [[U.S. Trade Representative|Trade Representative]] [[Robert Lighthizer]],<ref>{{cite news|date=March 8, 2018|title=The Little-Known Trade Adviser Who Wields Enormous Power in Washington|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/us/politics/robert-lighthizer-trade.html}}</ref> former acting [[Director of National Intelligence]] [[Richard Grenell]],<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/grenell-to-join-trump-campaign-283026|title=Grenell to join Trump campaign|date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> former [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] [[John R. Bolton]]<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Financial Times]]|title=US nationalist policymakers take hold of foreign policy|date=March 23, 2018|url=https://www.ft.com/content/b7f042d6-2e3a-11e8-9b4b-bc4b9f08f381}}</ref> and former [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] [[Michael Flynn]]<ref>{{cite news|title=The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald Versus H.R. McMaster|date=August 8, 2017|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/the-alt-right-and-glenn-greenwald-versus-h-r-mcmaster.html}}</ref> were described as representing a "nationalist wing" within the federal government.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Week]]|date=August 14, 2017|url=http://theweek.com/speedreads/718185/white-house-struggle-between-stephen-bannon-hr-mcmaster-apparently-coming-head|title=The White House struggle between Stephen Bannon and H.R. McMaster is apparently coming to a head}}</ref>
 
In a February 2017 article in ''[[The Atlantic]]'', journalist Uri Friedman described "populist economic nationalist" as a new nationalist movement "modeled on the '[[Jacksonian democracy|populism]]' of the 19th-century U.S. President [[Andrew Jackson]]" which was introduced in Trump's remarks to the [[Republican National Convention]] in a speech written by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon. Miller had adopted Senator [[Jeff Sessions]]' form of "nation-state populism" while working as his aide.<ref name="atlantic_populist_trump">{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/02/what-is-populist-trump/516525/ |title=What is a populist? And is Donald Trump one? |first=Uri |last=Friedman |date=February 27, 2017 |access-date=September 15, 2017 |work=The Atlantic}}</ref> By September 2017, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' journalist Greg Sargent observed that "Trump's nationalism" as "defined" by Bannon, [[Breitbart News|Breitbart]], Miller and "the rest of the 'populist [[Economic nationalism|economic nationalist]]' contingent around Trump" was beginning to have wavering support among Trump voters.<ref name="WaPo_Trump_supporters_Sept_17">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/09/15/trumps-top-supporters-are-in-a-full-blown-panic-theyre-right-to-be-afraid/? |title=Trump's top supporters are in a full-blown panic. They're right to be afraid |first=Greg |last=Sargent |date=September 15, 2017 |access-date=September 15, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> Some [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] members of Congress were also described as nationalists during the Trump era, such as Representative [[Steve King]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Steve King ingests the poison of nationalist ideology|date=March 13, 2017|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/steve-king-ingests-the-poison-of-nationalist-ideology/article/2617202 |newspaper=Washington Examiner}}</ref> Representative [[Matt Gaetz]],<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Tampa Bay Times]]|url=https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/08/24/matt-gaetz-warns-of-democratic-rule-at-republican-convention/|title='It's a horror film': Matt Gaetz warns of Democratic rule at Republican convention|date=August 25, 2020}}</ref> Senator [[Tom Cotton]]<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/07/how-tom-cotton-emerged-as-one-of-trumpisms-leading-voices/| title = How Sen. Tom Cotton emerged as one of Trumpism's leading voices - The Washington Post| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> and Senator [[Josh Hawley]].<ref>{{Cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/arts/trump-nationalism-tucker-carlson.html|title=Polishing the Nationalist Brand in the Trump Era|date=19 July 2019}}</ref>
 
During the Trump era, commonly identified American nationalist political commentators included [[Ann Coulter]],<ref name="convention"/> [[Michelle Malkin]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Free speech continues to be squelched from left and right|date=January 16, 2020|location=Atlanta|work=[[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]}}</ref> [[Lou Dobbs]],<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|title= Donald Trump 'Cherishes' Lou Dobbs So Much He Puts Him on Speakerphone for Oval Office Meetings|date=October 26, 2019|url= https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-cherishes-lou-dobbs-so-much-he-puts-him-on-speakerphone-for-oval-office-meetings}}</ref> [[Alex Jones]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-alex-jones-calls-phone-advice-infowars-conspiracy-theorist-far-right-sandy-hook-a7595136.html?amp|title=Donald Trump still calls Alex Jones for advice, claims the InfoWars founder and far right conspiracy theorist|website=The Independent|date=2017-02-23}}</ref> [[Charlie Kirk]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stone |first1=Peter |title=Money and misinformation: how Turning Point USA became a formidable pro-Trump force |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/23/turning-point-rightwing-youth-group-critics-tactics |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=October 23, 2021 |access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref>