The tech tycoon says his detractors “need better dirty tricks” amid a furore over his gesture at Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Billionaire Elon Musk, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has brushed off allegations that he performed a Nazi salute when giving a speech at the inauguration on Monday.
In an article on the same day, the Jerusalem Post inquired: “Did Elon Musk Sieg Heil at Trump’s inauguration?” The Israeli newspaper quoted local activist and academic Shai Davidai, who wrote on Instagram: “I don’t care who you are, doing a Nazi salute is never ok.”
The episode happened when the SpaceX and Tesla CEO was addressing Trump supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC on Monday.
He proclaimed: “This was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization!” The Tesla and SpaceX CEO insisted that unlike some other elections, the November 5 US presidential ballot “really mattered.”
The billionaire then thanked the audience “for making it happen,” placing his right hand over his heart and raising it upward at an angle, palm down and fingers held together. He repeated the gesture once again, turning to the spectators behind him.
“My heart goes out to you,” Musk gushed.
Online commentators and many media outlets viewed the gesture as a Nazi salute.
Responding to a user’s post on X on Tuesday, who claimed the “salute hoax is just another part of the ‘dirty tricks campaign,’” Musk agreed, adding: “frankly, they need better dirty tricks.”
“The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired,” he wrote.
In a post on X on Tuesday, the US-based Anti-Defamation League suggested Musk had “made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.” The non-profit organization noted that “people are on edge,” and urged all sides across the political spectrum to “give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath.”
Some social media users have pointed out that other politicians, including prominent Democrats – Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama – have all made arm gestures in the past that could be interpreted the same way, but did not draw the same media scrutiny.
Other commentators have speculated that Musk’s stiff and jerky straight-arm gesture was attributable to Asperger’s syndrome, which the billionaire has said he has.
The legacy media is pure propaganda.
You are the media now. https://t.co/lgkIbzcAZP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2025
The pathetic lying woke leftist MSM are a disgrace.
They’ve become an affront to civilisation.
Most of the world’s richest men and women have one thing in common in 68% of the case; THEY ALL HAVE ASPERGERS!
And yet, the world continues to ridicule, put-down, and sarcastically criticise the Aspies when they are more successful than the ‘Neuro-Typicals’.
Much of civilisation’s progress in ideas goes to Aspies for ‘thinking outside the box’ and pathing ideas that no neuro-typical would never have thought of.
Despite this, Aspies are often barred from many career fields due to being stigmatised as ‘retarded’ or ‘mentally deficient’, which they are not!
Veterans with PTSD are treated in a similar fashion. So, imagine what life is like if you are both an Aspie and a Service-Connected Disabled Veteran…getting disenfranchised, marginalised and ignored for jobs and barred from entering college or university, or denied employment in a field that you sepnt thousands of dollars getting qualified in…
Like the leadership in this country the biased media are either very stupid or they have a plan to destroy this beautiful country and the beautiful way of living we used to have.
Wakeup Kiwi AGENDA 2030 IS VERY REAL.
Yep. Unsurprisingly the very same deliberately deceitful ‘news’ story was also run by the corrupt NZ Herald:
https://x.com/MattKingNorth/status/1881534848340496663
It’s amusing to watch the NZ MSM hammering nails into their own coffin.
TVNZ3 almost orgasmed over this. Sad and pathetic. They are still holding a beacon to Ardern’s hatred of Trump.
https://expose-news.com/2024/08/11/the-impact-exposing-anti-cult-terrorism/
You can’t fix stewpid