While speaking to a crowd of MAGA faithful on Monday, Elon Musk made a grunting noise, placed a hand on his heart and extended it outwards in a quick, snapping motion, palm facing down. He then repeated the motion for the people behind him.
There’s an easy way to say “I wasn't Sieg heiling all my pals” on the world stage. Musk isn’t saying it. Silly libs!
“It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote Monday in a statement on Musk’s own social media platform X, referring to Musk’s outstretched-arm movement that came as he was thanking his supporters.
Even if Musk did "accidentally" make the Nazi-like salute, multiple neo-Nazis gleefully embraced the gesture at face value as a Sieg Heil, and proclaimed, "We are so back."
Grimes has said she’s “happy to denounce Nazi -ism” after her former partner Elon Musk was accused of giving a “Nazi salute” during an inauguration celebration for Donald Trump.
Gov. JB Pritzker and President Trump had a fractious relationship during the president's first term, and things look to remain the same the second time around.
Musk told supporters, "And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you," before making the gesture dissected around the world.
Despite media speculation that Elon Musk made an alleged Nazi gesture on Inauguration Day, the Anti-Defamation League defended Musk in a social media post, calling on all political sides to
Live‘s Chloe Fineman has no regrets about identifying Elon Musk as the star host that made her cry. The 36-year-old posted an Instagram Story Tuesday night reflecting on the moment she went public. It comes just a day after Musk repeatedly made an evocative hand gesture during a speech at Trump’s inauguration.
Once again, Democrats are falsely accusing their Republican political rivals of being Nazis and supporting Adolf Hitler.
Elon Musk wasted little time creating controversy following the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States on Monday. While speaking following the swearing in, Musk thanked the crowd, then put his hand to his chest and thrust it toward the crowd.