I'm not going to embed any videos, because I don't want to inadvertently upset or traumatize anyone who would be hurt, upset, or traumatized from seeing a Nazi salute, but: if you saw what Elon Musk did during the inauguration and think it was a Nazi salute, you are complete right. You saw what you saw and interpreted it correctly. Neo-Nazis seeing it thought it was a nod to Naziism and Hitler. Germans, who have some experience with this, thought it was a Nazi salute.
For anyone who might want to see the evidence, I will link to videos of Musk and of Hitler himself demonstrating this gesture. I suggest turning down the sound.
- Musk at the inauguration
- Hitler on May 1, 1936. This video contains many swastikas, film of Hitler, and film of crowds saluting him. Hitler's salute is about 35 seconds in.
Note that Musk is also playing footsie with Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany; AfD), the farthest-right of Germany's current political parties, so far right that it's Nazi-adjacent.
I've got a conclusion about Musk, myself. He's not hiding his Nazi sympathies from us. The United States and its allies fought a long and bloody war to rid Europe of Nazis. Naziism is anti-American and completely antithetical to the ideals, still not realized, of the United States, as expressed in our foundational documents. And this is the kind of person that the 47th president is associating himself with.
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