Musk addresses criticism of his gesture at the Trump rally. Elon Musk has sparked anger with his. One-armed gesture during a speech honoring Donald Trump’s inauguration.
“Musk addresses criticism” congratulated the crowd for “making it happen”. Before he covered his heart with his right palm and threw it into the air right in front of him. For those seated behind him, he then turned around and repeated the action.
So many criticise musk for his gestures at trump rally. Many users on his social networking site, X, have compared the motion to the Nazi salute..
To be honest, they need better nasty techniques, Musk wrote in response on X. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ argument is getting old to me.
While speaking at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, Musk. The wealthiest man in the world and a close ally of President Trump, made the gesture.
My sympathies are with you. The 53-year-old said. It is because of you that the future of civilization is guaranteed, following the second one-armed salute.
Social media was instantly flooded with condemnation.
Historian Claire Aubin, who focuses on Nazism in the United States, says the “sieg heil” is the Nazi salute.
My professional opinion is that you’re all right. You should believe your eyes, she said on X to what many perceived to be a clear reference to Nazis.
This is a fascist historian, said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University. The Nazi salute was incredibly forceful.
According to Italian media, Andrea Stroppa, Musk’s close friend who has connected him to far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Uploaded the video of Musk with the caption, “Roman Empire is back starting from Roman salute.”
Elon Musk congratulated Donald Trump’s fans at a gathering held after his inauguration on Monday. He made a motion that looked like a Roman salute. Putting his palm to his chest first and then extending a stiff right arm toward the crowd, palm down and slightly upward. The incident wasn’t unique. Later, he made the same motion again.
It’s difficult to overestimate Musk’s influence in the new government. The billionaire has been sitting shotgun for a large portion of the transition phase. Jelping Trump design his cabinet and new administration. He paid hundreds of millions to help elect Trump. Trump has put Musk in charge of DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency. A quasi-governmental organization whose goal is to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending. In his inauguration speech, Trump also embraced Musk’s life goal of colonizing Mars as part of America’s “manifest destiny.”
Extremists online enthusiastically embraced the salute as a “Sieg Heil” salute, which was popular among Adolf Hitler’s supporters during World War II. Regardless of whether Musk, who was born in South Africa, intended it that way, as some online commenters have argued.
