In February 2020, a photo of Stanivuković holding a Chetnik flag was leaked on social media, which caused outrage in the Bosniak and Croat public in which Stanivuković enjoyed a solid number of supporters. Not long after, in an interview with Face TV, Stanivuković stated that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is a political court. There was also talk about the protests in Montenegro, and Stanivuković denied the Montenegrin language and the Montenegrin Orthodox Church in the conversation. He also called Serbia his own country and said that it is natural that he loves it. He has been called a Serbian nationalist and a Srebrenica genocide denier by the Bosniak media.