Here’s the thing about Nazi salutes. If you didn’t mean to make one, you would apologize if someone thought you did. Say you’re at a right-wing rally and find yourself in the middle of “an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm” – clapping your hand over your heart and then thrusting it stiff-armed over the crowd.

A Grand Rapids priest with the Anglican Catholic Church was removed from position for making what appears to be a Nazi salute.

No reasonable person could doubt Robinson’s intention. He was doing a Hitler salute, but cloaked under the veil of irony, as a way of signaling to the audience that people who object to Hitler salutes are bad.

Rev. Calvin Robinson, Priest-in-charge of the St. Paul's Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) on Lake Michigan Drive in Grand Rapids, is no longer serving as a priest in the church and has had his license in the church revoked.

Robinson has defended the gesture, with which he concluded his speech at the National Pro-Life Summit last week, as an ‘attempt at dry wit.’

At the National Pro-Life Summit, provocateur Fr. Calvin Robinson of the Anglican Catholic Church threw up a Nazi-like salute. After video of the gesture went viral, the Anglican Catholic Church revoked his license to practice in the church.

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell had an explosive showdown with NewsNight panelist Scott Jennings over his defense of Elon Musk’s questionable salute. Rampell achieved the rare feat of stunning Jennings into silence after she threw down the gauntlet and challenged him to repeat Musk’s now infamous gesture,

A priest at the National Pro-Life Summit did a Nazi-like gesture in a direct reference to the Elon Musk incident at President Donald Trump's inauguration.

A Michigan priest had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after he mimicked Elon Musk’s controversial straight-arm gesture, which many have likened to a Nazi salute, during a speech.

The Anglican Catholic Church said Calvin Robinson was previously warned against ‘online trolling.’ Robinson called the gesture an ‘attempt at dry wit.’

The ACC made the announcement Wednesday, hours after the video of Robinson went viral on X and Reddit. The progressive watchdog organization, Right Wing Watch, shared the video on their X account Wednesday and in less than 24 hours, it has already been viewed over 17.5 million times.