Jeffrey Lord, the tireless protector of President Trump whose promotion transformed him into a far-fetched political superstar, was let go by CNN on Thursday after a convoluted Twitter trade in which he evoked — mockingly, he said — a Nazi salute. 

Mr. Ruler got the news by phone while on his way to CNN's Manhattan studio in a town auto gave by the system, which carried him from his home close Harrisburg, Pa. 

After Mr. Ruler, 66, discovered that his agreement had been disjoined, the auto pivoted. "I didn't need to walk; I expressed gratitude toward them for that," he said in a phone meet from the street. 

While Mr. Master was regularly rebuked by pundits for his constant campaigning on Mr. Trump's benefit — he was once censured on air by Anderson Cooper in especially unrefined terms — it was an online networking quarrel that prompted his ouster. 

Mr. Master had as of late denounced Angelo Carusone, leader of the liberal guard dog site Media Matters, of copying fascists by calling for backers to blacklist Sean Hannity's Fox News appear. Whenever Mr. Carusone reacted on Thursday on Twitter, Mr. Master posted the words "Sieg Heil!", a reaction that he said was intended to deride Mr. Carusone's 


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CNN administrators did not see it that way. "Nazi salutes are weak," the system said in a brisk proclamation. "Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the system." 

Mr. Master, a veteran of the Reagan White House, turned into CNN's first paid expert Trump supporter in July 2015. Mr. Trump, at that point a long-shot Republican hopeful, had suggested Mr. Ruler in the wake of grumbling that the system's specialists all appeared to hate him. (CNN said it had just been thinking about Mr. Ruler for an occupation.) 

At the time, Mr. Master was living with his mom and sporadically composing magazine pieces. Before long, he was omnipresent on TV, respected by Mr. Trump's supporters as an uncommon standard voice for their hopeful, and mocked by others for unfaltering recognition of him.