Richard Spencer got punched in the face during the protests at Trump’s #inauguration pic.twitter.com/oQAwtbtEeT — Gender-Professecs (@MrTrunney) January 20, 2017

Richard Spencer, a self-described white nationalist and leader of the “alt-right” movement, walked into the protests in downtown D.C. on Friday and was punched in the face by one of the demonstrators after denying that he was a Nazi.

Spencer seemed only a bit fazed, although he later called it “a really terrible thing”:

I was just physically assaulted twice by antifas. No serious damage. I can take a punch. — Richard 🐸 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) January 20, 2017

Spencer was in D.C. in November for a white nationalist gathering, when he was caught on video shouting “Hail Trump!” to a crowd that responded with Nazi salutes.

Spencer coined the term “alt-right,” a small movement that seeks a whites-only state but tries to avoid being labeled as racist or white supremacist.

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