Elon Musk accused of giving ‘Nazi salute’ at Trump inauguration celebration
Tesla CEO and “first buddy” Elon Musk was hit with a wave of immediate outrage online and on cable news after he made a salute that many felt was fascist during his speech at the Capitol One Arena on Monday to celebrate President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
While getting extremely excited about the prospect of landing a man on Mars and planting an American flag, the X (formerly Twitter) owner pounded his chest and shot his right arm in an angular motion toward the sky, saying he felt it in his “heart.” He also turned his back to the audience and repeated the gesture towards the American flag hanging over the stage.
Elon Musk Sure Isn’t Denying That His Inaugural Gesture Was a Nazi Salute
If a person did not mean to make a Nazi salute, but made something that looked just like a Nazi salute in front of a giant crowd and a worldwide television audience, a logical first step to clarifying the situation might be denying that that gesture was a Nazi salute. Elon Musk has not done that. Instead, he called the characterizations of a certain Sieg Heil-flavored gesture he made multiple times at the bizarre indoor “inaugural parade” for newly sworn-in Felon-in-Chief Donald Trump Monday afternoon “sooo tired.” He included a snoozy emoji too, in case those extra o’s weren’t doing it.
It was a Nazi salute, and it comes as no surprise to anyone who has studied Musk. Seth Abramson in his essay The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer dispels the flattering, everchanging, myth Elon Musk carefully tends and shamelessly peddles on his Twitter/X. Here's an excerpt detailing the Musks' white supremacist activities:
A significant amount of the Musk fortune Elon enjoyed growing up, and which his dad used to support him in Canada and America-and this will explain why Elon for years lied about his father’s support, even to the point of falsely implying he had written his father out of his life entirely-came from illegal apartheid-era mines in Zambia that exploited their Black workers but made the Musks fantastically wealthy.
The Musk Family refused to pay taxes on these mines or reveal their interest in them for a reason that makes sense if you know that the Musks comes from generations of white supremacists and some of them-e.g., Elon Musk’s grandparents-were even open Nazi sympathizers.
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