After months of controversy, capped off by Elon Musk's salute at the presidential inauguration, backlash against the tech mogul has hit a fever pitch.
A local network parted ways with its meteorologist after she condemned Elon Musk for a "Nazi salute" and said with expletives she would not associate with his supporters.
On Wednesday, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, the very epitome of a respectable corporate leader, a pillar of what passes for the American establishment, praised Musk effusively: “The guy is our Einstein,” Dimon told CNBC. Einstein, we should note, was firmly anti-Nazi.
Tesla's German gigafactory has been targeted by a British political campaign group which has projected an image of Elon Musk making a hand gesture, that
The incident only lasted seconds, but it sparked what has become a global debate about how to interpret what Musk did. Then Musk started posting Nazi-themed jokes.
The straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence of a ‘Roman salute’ in antiquity.
People use woke ideology as an excuse to be an a--hole, and it’s really just people that are a--holes that are attaching themselves to things that make them feel righteous.”
Musk then slapped his chest with his right hand, before flinging it diagonally upwards, palm face down. He turned around to audience members behind the podium, and repeated the gesture. “My heart goes out to you,
Live" star Chloe Fineman took aim at Elon Musk Tuesday referring to a 2021 incident in which he allegedly made her cry.
Billionaire's estranged daughter has used rival social media platforms to attack Trump's anti-transgender executive order, and her dad's salute.
“It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote Monday in a statement on Musk’s own social media platform X, referring to Musk’s outstretched-arm movement that came as he was thanking his supporters.