Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) was among those who sharply criticized billionaire Elon Musk on Monday for making “what appears to be a Heil Hitler salute” during an event celebrating the inauguration of President Trump.
Elon Musk has been condemned as "a mixture of mad and right-wing extremist" by professor Jens-Christian Wagner, a historian who runs the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, the largest in Germany.
Elon Musk responded to criticism of his gesture during a post-inauguration speech on Monday, saying those comparing it to a Nazi salute were deploying “dirty tricks.” “Frankly, they
All the chatter about Elon Musk's speech Monday at Capitol One Arena in DC isn't about what he said but about a gesture he made, twice. To critics, it looked for all the world to be a Nazi salute, reports Politico.
In a speech at President Donald Trump’s inaugural rally, Musk raised his right arm in the air twice in a row in a gesture some compared to a Nazi salute.
A gesture made by Elon Musk while he was speaking at President Donald Trump's Inauguration Parade Monday evening caused a stir online, with some people noting that the tech billionaire's straight-arm movement looked like a Nazi salute.
Several news organizations and reporters accused Elon Musk of doing a Nazi salute during the inauguration celebration for President Trump.
My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero had stronger words for what experts described as a Hitler-esque gesture: "f--k this guy."
"It is easy to see that he didn’t," wrote the conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt. "Those asserting that he did are low and absurd people without a shred of credibility."
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 Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit focused on combating antisemitism, defended tech billionaire Elon Musk’s “awkward” gesture during a Monday celebratory event which some critics panned