In another bizarre, unhinged rant, Elon Musk has claimed that ‘every politician and public speaker’ has at some point made the same gesture he did on Donald Trump’s inauguration day.
Musk made worldwide headlines with the Nazi salute, which saw him put his hand to his chest before thrusting out his arm outstretched in the air at the end of his speech at Trump’s inauguration rally.
He then repeated the action, complete with an open palm.
Many saw similarities between the gesture and a ‘Roman salute’, which became synonymous with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the 1930s.
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Musk continues to deny this was a Nazi salute, claiming that what he meant by the gesture, was ‘throwing his heart out’ to audience.
He has now bizarrely claimed that it is incredibly common.
Speaking to America’s CNBC, the billionaire hit out at people who “tried to claim I was a Nazi because of some random hand gesture at a rally.”
“Yet the legacy media promoted that as though that was a deliberate Nazi gesture, when in fact any politician, any public speaker who has spoken for any length of time has made the exact same gesture.”
The Nazi salute was lauded by far-right MAGA figures and condemned by Germans, telling us all we need to know.
