A county official in Pennsylvania has resigned after posting a video to TikTok emulating Elon Musk's salute from Trump's inaugural event.
Elon Musk has doubled down on his inauguration salute controversy with a bunch of Nazi jokes and has been slammed by the Anti-Defamation League.
"Elon Musk has repeatedly pushed for the racist and antisemitic 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory, endorsed the Nazi-sympathizing German Political Party AfD, and allowed anti-Jewish hate to proliferate unabated on his website, X," said Goldman in the statement, which was emailed to Newsweek on Tuesday.
Online users discussed the altered photo after tech entrepreneur Elon Musk twice extended his right arm at an event for U.S. President Donald Trump.
Elon Musk has seemingly done the unthinkable and shown his knowledge of Nazi history is far deeper than the ADL would like the public to believe.
Elon Musk’s salute before a cheering crowd during Trump’s inauguration festivities has ignited a swirl of debate about whether he did a Nazi salute, a so-called Roman salute or another gesture
Many were critical of the tech billionaire's speech and gesture, with one X user writing: "You all know what he just did. Don't try to hide from it" The post Elon Musk’s Salute to Trump Crowd Condemned as Nazi Signal: ‘What the Actual F–k?
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has responded to recent backlash over allegations that he made a Nazi salute by posting a string of Nazi puns.
The gesture from Musk is eerily similar to the salute made prominent during the height of Adolf Hitler’s antisemitic and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rushed to Elon Musk’s defense Thursday, claiming that the billionaire’s disturbing inauguration gesture —which millions of people around the world recognized as the Sieg Heil salute used by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party—was little more than a misunderstanding.
Elon Musk has responded to allegations that he performed a Nazi salute at President Donald Trump 's inauguration, calling it a "dirty trick" by his critics. Musk addressed the controversy on his platform X (formerly Twitter) Monday night, replying to a user: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."