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!” Musk wrote Thursday, referring to German Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.
Musk has been under scrutiny after making a hand gesture resembling a Nazi salute at a Trump inauguration event earlier the week.
After the Israeli prime minister defended Musk following controversy over a gesture at a Trump rally, the tech entrepreneur posted puns using the names of notorious Nazi officials.
Most would shy away from being associated with a Nazi salute. But not billionaire Elon Musk. On Monday, Musk made
After Elon Musk appeared to gesture like a Nazi salute, he was defended by the ADL and many Jews. Then he made a Holocaust joke.
Donald Trump’s ‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk has triggered a controversy with a hand gesture at the inaugural parade in Washington DC. Many have compared it to the Nazi salute. However, experts are divided.
The ADL, which works to combat antisemitism, initially gave Musk the benefit of the doubt over an 'awkward' hand gesture he performed after Donald Trump 's inauguration.
After the world's richest man made what fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat called a "Nazi salute," one leading authority on anti-Semitism gave him the "benefit of the doubt." But any goodwill between the two seems to be gone after Musk made several references to Nazi Germany on his X account.
Sieg Denial Elon Musk's edgelord tendencies are alienating even his defenders in the Jewish advocacy world. After making what was almost certainly a double "Sieg Heil" salute at President Donald Trump's inaugural festivities,
Elon Musk referenced Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders in a social media post filled with puns early Thursday taunting those who accused him of doing a Nazi salute at an event after President Trump’s inauguration.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham defended Elon Musk after the billionaire went viral on social media for appearing to perform a Nazi salute after Donald Trump was sworn in as president. Musk found himself at the center of a heated debate online following two back-to-back hand gestures he made at Trump's inauguration.