Social media had one question to ask after Elon Musk hit the stage at the Capitol One Arena in Washington D.C. Monday: What was that salute?
While celebrating President Donald Trump’s inauguration at a post-ceremony rally, Musk gave a brief speech where he thanked the crowd for their support and said: “Elections come and go, some are important and some are not, but this one really mattered and I just want to say thank you for making it happen.”
He then proceeded to hit what appeared to be not one, but two salutes that many folks online have likened to the Nazi or Roman salute.
“Did Elon Musk just hit the roman salute at his inauguration speech?” Twitch streamer Hasan Piker posted on X. “Elon Musk just did a Nazi salute at the Capitol One Arena in Washington,” wrote another. “Elon just did the Nazi salute on TV so that’s where we’re at right now,” added another user.
The Roman salute is a sign of power and authority that, in modern times, is often considered a symbol of fascism.
CNN anchor Erin Burnett also called out the gesture on air, saying, “Standing ovation for Elon Musk. By far the biggest reception of the day. You saw him come out with that odd-looking salute.”
I’m sure only the goody two shoes leftists are bent out of shape about this. Anyone can take a look at any videos from the 1930s and compare them to what he did, you’ll see that this was not what you all want it to be.
Musk is an extremely dangerous deep state swamp creature. Trump should dump him as soon as possible. Vivek Ramaswamy is good enough, to reduce spending. We don’t need the unstable Musk.
Thank you Adam Schiff.
That’s SENATOR Adam Schiff.
Watch the clip. It’s very clearly not a nazi salute. He puts his hand over his heart and flings it out in an “i love you all” gesture. The cherry-picked still shot was chosen to further the libel.
Are you suggesting that the evil media are being untruthful again?
Typical Leftist Evil Media out to slander Trump and his patriots and Oilem Goilem buys it. Musk is all excited about America’s future and his hand gesture was showing a flight to Mars.
TDS is back. So now instead of the Russian conspiracy theories we now have Nazi conspiracy theories. What utter RUBBISH!