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Neo-Nazis celebrate Elon Musk During a speech to tens of thousands of people, he gave two Nazi-like salutes Supporters of President Donald Trump on monday.
“Elections come and go, some elections are important, some aren’t, but this one was really important,” Musk said hours after his speech at Capital One Arena in Washington. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. “And I just want to thank you for making it happen. Thank you.”
At this point, Musk placed his right hand on his chest and held it out straight, palm down and fingers touching, a gesture considered the “Roman salute.” Adopted by the fascist movement a century ago, it was most famously used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, and is still associated with the fascist right today, especially in Italy.
After making the gesture for the first time, Musk turned to the members of the crowd seated behind him and repeated the gesture with his back to the camera.
“My heart goes out to you,” Musk added.
Musk later shared a clip from his speech at X, but as he gave his first salute, Clip posted by Musk He cuts to a shot of the audience before turning back to show him giving the second salute.
Musk, X and the Trump administration did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The response from the worldwide neo-Nazi community was immediate and unanimous.
“Incredible things are already happening,” wrote Andrew Torba, founder of Gab, a social media platform popular with anti-Semites and white supremacists, over a photo of Musk greeting him.
“The whole neo-Nazi movement seems to be eating it up,” says Nick Martin, an investigative journalist who follows extremist groups and runs an online publication. Reporter. “He gave two unintelligible Nazi salutes and they got the message loud and clear.”
The administrator of the Nazi meme channel on Telegram wrote “WE ARE BACK” under the clip of Musk greeting. The band members responded with a thunderbolt emoji, a well-known neo-Nazi reference to the SS.
“I don’t care if it’s wrong, I’ll enjoy my tears for it,” said Christopher Pohlhaus, American neo-Nazi group Blood TribeMusk wrote on his Telegram channel under the greeting gif.
Keith Wood, a well-known far-right Irishman who has repeatedly praised Musk, responded to his actions by writing in X: “Well, maybe the wake is really dead.”
Right-wing political commentator Evan Kilgore wrote in X: “Holy crap… Elon Musk was just Heil Hitler at Trump’s inauguration rally in Washington… It’s incredible.” Kilgore later wrote, “We’re back a lot.”
Kilgore, who He is a holocaust denierWorked as an ambassador for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. The conservative activist group hosted a pre-inauguration bash Sunday evening featuring JD Vance, who is being sworn in as vice president today, and the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
There is musk adopted far-right ideology and figures in the worldincluding Tommy Robinson, an Islamophobic activist who has been imprisoned in England for the past two years. Most recently, he promoted Germany’s far-right political party Alternative for Germany. In an hour-long interview with party leader Alice Weidel earlier this month, Musk agreed with the wild conspiracy theory. Hitler was a communist.
