Elon Musk offered Donald Trump supporters what looked a lot like a Nazi salute on live TV to cheers from the MAGA crowd Monday at Trump’s post-swearing-in inauguration rally in Washington, D.C..
As social media exploded with condemnation of what some were calling a “Sieg Heil,” with some others applauding the world’s richest man’s gesture, there was also some speculation that Musk’s movement was more like that of an Imperial Roman general in the Gladiator mode.
In point of fact, Musk turned around and gave the salute a second time almost immediately afterwards to supporters seated behind him at DC’s Capital One Arena. “This is what victory feels like,” Musk told the indoor arena Trump rally in DC moments before banging on his heart and offering a stiff outstretched arm from the podium with the presidential seal on it. “This was no ordinary victory, this was a fork in the road of human civilization.” SEEMS NOT GREAT.
https://t.co/8Rhs5PscZO “This one really matters, thank you,” Musk then said of last year’s election, before making the salute, Nazi, Roman or otherwise.
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