Trump supporter accused of using ‘white power’ hand gesture in video during Florida rally

A Trump supporter has been accused of throwing up a “white power” hand gesture in the TV background of Donald Trump’s rally in Florida on Friday.

During various moments in the president’s speech at The Villages, a man behind him held up his arm with his index finger and thumb touching.

The “OK” hand symbol was first adopted online in 2017 as a symbol for white supremacy, according to hate monitoring group the Anti-Defamation League.

At one point during his speech, Trump said:

We will teach our children to love our country, honour our history and always respect our great American flag.

The man held up the gesture and nodded along in approval.

Many people on social media noticed the unidentified man continually raising his hand with the gesture and called him out for it.

The hand gesture being used as a symbol of white supremacy first started out as a hoax in 2017.

It was quickly co-opted by neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other white nationalists to signal their presence and to spot potential sympathisers and recruits.

For them, the letters formed by the hand were not O and K, but W and P, for “white power”.

Trump has previously been accused of doing the gesture when referencing AOC and former Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart allegedly doing it before introducing the POTUS at a rally earlier this year.