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Nazi paraphernalia, and one of their militias arrived armed with heavy weaponry.

Their presence evoked memories of Trump backers who openly carried guns in the streets of Cleveland at last summer’s Republican National Convention, where Trump was nominated.

Ohio is an open-carry gun state, and supporters were applauding Trump on his Second Amendment stance.

Trump’s appointment of Bannon, the former president of the right-wing Breitbart News, as his chief strategist and senior counselor was seen by many as a nod to the alt-right movement.

Bannon, 63, came under fire after divorce court documents emerged alleging he didn’t want his twin daughters attending the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because many Jewish students were enrolled at the elite institution.

Under Bannon, Breitbart published a call to “hoist (the Confederate flag) high and fly it with pride” only two weeks after a racist gunman killed parishioners at a predominantly black church in Charleston, S.C., according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Despite weekend rumors that Bannon could be on the outs, his presence in the White House in the wake of the Charlottesville violence signaled the damage had already been done.

“Neutrality in a time of crisis is cowardly,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said of the President at a news conference in Memphis on Sunday.

“His silence on them gives them confidence that they have the right to do what they’re doing. It’s not good for America,” Jackson said.

“This is a very sensitive time for our country,” he added. “He can’t call out the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederates and the neo-Nazis. They are his supporters.”

Gorka, a counterterrorism adviser to Trump, attended Trump’s inaugural ball wearing the medal of a Hungarian nationalist organization, Vitezi Rend. The group was founded by Hitler-allied Hungarian dictator Miklos Horthy. Gorka denied to NBC News that he is a member of Vitezi Rend and said he has “completely distanced myself” from any fascist ideology.