Upon being elected, Trump disavowed the movement. In 2015, it attracted broader attention-particularly through coverage on Steve Bannon's Breitbart News-due to alt-right support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Following the 2014 Gamergate controversy, the alt-right made increasing use of trolling and online harassment to raise its profile. It came to be associated with other white nationalist websites and groups, including Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer, Brad Griffin's Occidental Dissent, and Matthew Heimbach's Traditionalist Worker Party. His term was shortened to "alt-right", and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan. His "alternative right" was influenced by earlier forms of American white nationalism, as well as paleoconservatism, the Dark Enlightenment, and the Nouvelle Droite. Spencer launched The Alternative Right webzine. In 2010, the American white nationalist Richard B.
The term is ill-defined, having been used in different ways by alt-right members, media commentators, and academics. A largely online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the early 2010s, before establishing a presence in other countries, and has declined since 2017. The alt-right, an abbreviation of alternative right, is a loosely connected far-right white nationalist movement. An alt-right supporter at the March 4 Trump rally in Saint Paul, Minnesota a depiction of Pepe the Frog has been digitally removed from the lower left corner of the man's sign due to copyright issues.