Nazi salute or 'moment of enthusiasm'? Elon Musk's gesture at Trump inauguration scrutinized
Billionaire Elon Musk's hand gesture while he spoke during a celebration of U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration drew online comparisons to a Nazi salute on Monday, but a leading tracker of antisemitism said it appeared to represent a moment of enthusiasm instead.
How did the ADL conclude that Elon Musk didn’t give a Nazi salute? It isn’t saying.
“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.
We're told that antisemitism is on the rise, but when Donald Trump's highest-profile supporter makes a Nazi salute...
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