Just days after Elon Musk was criticized for giving what looked like a Nazi salute following the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, the richest man in the world is being scrutinized once more. This time, Musk took to his X platform with a series of Nazi jokes.
Musk's gesture, which some called a "Nazi salute," sparked outrage among Democratic lawmakers, as well as politicians in Europe.
The channel Vesti showed a clip of the Tesla CEO's controversial gesture but without his arm or chest visible.
“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.
Errol Musk laughed and defended his son against allegations of making a Nazi salute, calling the accusation “absolute nonsense” and “rubbish.”
Reddit communities dedicated to PC gaming, Nintendo, and Destiny have decided to blacklist links to X (formerly Twitter) due to owner Elon Musk’s recent Nazi-like saluting at an inauguration rally for President Donald Trump as part of a growing movement by users of the social media site to distance themselves from the controversial billionaire.
Elon Musk responds to the criticism over his one-armed gesture during Trump's inauguration which sparked controversy.
A meteorologist in Milwaukee has been “dropped” by the TV station where she worked after criticizing Elon Musk in an Instagram post about his Nazi-like salutes, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
The tech billionaire doubled down on his allegedly antisemitic gesture with an attack on one of the world's most beloved women.
Elon Musk, billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump, leaned into the accusations that his Monday salute was a “Sieg heil” gesture with a series of trollish Nazi puns on X. “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!
The Tesla founder has been condemned in Germany for the gesture he made on stage at the inauguration of President Donald Trump.