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UFC Star Reacts to Elon Musk’s Questionable Salute During Trump Inauguration

January 22, 2025 4 Min Read
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  • Musk claims backlash is simply one other ‘soiled trick’
  • neo-nazis are loving elon musk’s Salute

Elon Musk is as soon as once more on the middle of controversy after he delivered a suspicious-looking salute throughout Donald Trump’s inauguration.

In direction of the tail-end of his speech throughout Monday’s festivities in Washington D.C., the Tesla Motors CEO thumped his proper hand to his chest earlier than taking pictures it out diagonally along with his palms dealing with down. Customers on-line had been fast to level out that Musk’s awkward gesture seemed uncomfortably much like the ‘Sieg Heil’ salute used as a greeting and acknowledgment of rank in Nazi Germany.

If giving the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute was an Olympic occasion like gymnastics, Elon Musk would’ve obtained an ideal rating of 10. Musk even nailed the facial features. Severely, Hitler could be jealous. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/nBxl1Gn1nx

— Invoice Madden (@maddenifico) January 20, 2025

Unsurprisingly, the clip rapidly went viral and generated a wide range of reactions from on-line customers, together with one-time UFC title challenger Paulo Costa who provided his response to the surreal second on X.

“Haha right here we go,” Costa wrote.

Musk claims backlash is simply one other ‘soiled trick’

Musk has since commented on the controversy, claiming that the backlash is nothing greater than a “soiled trick” from “they.”

Piers Morgan additionally rapidly got here to the protection of Musk, suggesting that whereas the salute was “ill-advised,” the Sultan of Area X by means meant to make use of it as a Nazi salute.

“Elon Musk was very ill-advised to do this sort of salute to indicate his clearly said ‘my coronary heart goes out to you’ sentiment… however he clearly didn’t imply it as a Nazi salute and anybody who says he did is being a disingenuous fool,” Morgan wrote.

neo-nazis are loving elon musk’s Salute

Even when Morgan is true and Musk’s sketchy salute was nothing greater than a clumsy second, the incident seems to have actually excited the Neo-Nazi group.

“Unimaginable issues are occurring already,” Andrew Torba, the founding father of Gab, a social media platform well-liked with antisemites and white supremacists, wrote over an image of Musk giving the salute.

“WE ARE F*CKING BACK,” the administrator of a Nazi meme channel on Telegram wrote beneath a clip of Musk giving the salute. Members of the group responded with the lightning bolt emoji, a widely known neo-Nazi reference to the SS.

“I don’t care if this was a mistake, I’m going to benefit from the tears over it,” Christopher Pohlhaus, the chief of the American neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe, wrote on his Telegram channel beneath a gif of the Musk salute.

Evan Kilgore, a right-wing political commentator, wrote on X: “Holy crap … did Elon Musk simply Heil Hitler on the Trump Inauguration Rally in Washington DC … That is unimaginable.” Kilgore later wrote: “We’re so again.”

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