Elon Musk celebrates Trump's inauguration with a gesture similar to the Nazi salute
With his arm raised. Elon Musk made a gesture similar to a Nazi salute while giving a speech at the Capital One stadium before some 20,000 Donald Trump supporters, after the new US president was sworn in.
The Tesla CEO pounded his chest and raised his right arm in the air as he thanked Donald Trump's supporters for returning the president to the White House.
“Elections come and go, but these have been really important. And I want to thank you for making it possible… Thank you all, the future of civilization is assured,” said the owner of Tesla and X before hitting his chest with his right arm and throwing it upwards twice in a row.
Musk then promised to “go out of his way for you,” and added: “We're going to Mars, an American astronaut will plant the flag on Mars.”
Israeli media such as Haaretz or Jerusalem Post have echoed Musk's gesture. “Musk appears to give a fascist salute at Trump's inauguration,” title the first. The second, directly, speaks of the Nazi name of the salute: sieg heil.
The gesture of an exultant Musk during the audience that packed the sports hall to celebrate Trump's victory has spread on social networks. In Spain, different politicians have echoed it. “Yes, it is what it seems” or “they are not hiding” they have pointed out from Sumar on the social network owned by Musk.
“Either he is ordering a taxi or he is a fucking Nazi,” said ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián.
The satirical portal 'El Mundo Today' has announced in response to this video that it is stopping publishing on the social network run by Musk. “Yes, it's because of the Nazi salute. Of course it's because of the Nazi salute. We could have done it sooner but no company gives up 1.5 million followers lightly,” said its founder Kike García.
Musk, driving force of the new global far-right wave
In a digitalized society and from his privileged position next to the president of the United States, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has emerged as the engine and fuel of this 'reactionary international'—a concept that has been used for some time in the academic and that have recently adopted political leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sánchez to denounce the businessman's agenda.
The technology magnate has begun to apply the same strategy that helped Donald Trump win the elections with other far-right forces in European countries and is using the algorithm of his social network X to his advantage to impose his vision on the rest of the world. . Musk himself has boasted of modifying the algorithm to multiply the visibility of his tweets. Last week he promised a new change to the social network to “promote more informative and entertaining content.”
