Elon Musk is trolling critics of his inaugural parade salute to the crowd – derided by some as Hitler-esque – by invoking the names of high-ranking World War II-era Nazi politicians and officials.
The billionaire rattled off a series of off-color puns in a post to his X account on Thursday in response to claims he had actually performed a Nazi salute during his remarks at Donald Trump’s indoor inaugural parade in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
His post made light of the names of Adolf Hitler’s Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess; Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels; Reichstag President Hermann Göring; and Schutzstaffel (SS) Commander Heinrich Himmler.
The tweet also took a swipe at liberal politicians’ use of preferred pronouns in the shift towards accommodating for transgender or nonbinary individuals.
‘Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!’ Musk wrote.
‘Bet you did nazi that coming,’ he added in the final pun.
Conservatives rushed to Musk’s defense after a liberal meltdown over the gesture where he put his hand over his heart, then shot his hand out to wave to the crowd in Capital One Arena.
Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in, writing in an X post on Thursday that Musk ‘is being falsely smeared.’
Elon Musk, in his latest defense of his salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural parade, invoked the name of several Nazi Germany leaders
He used the names to issue a series of puns in a post to X on Thursday, concluding: ‘Bet you did nazi that coming’
‘Elon is a great friend of Israel,’ Netanyahu added of the South African native. ‘He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.’
‘He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state,’ the PM concluded.
Musk’s father also defended the gesture during an interview with NewsNation host Chris Como.
Asked Wednesday night about the salute, Errol Musk said: ‘It’s absolute nonsense, it’s absolute rubbish. Rubbish.’
‘It’s a universal salute, or, as you said, you know, throwing his heart out, I suppose, yes, that’s a universal thing for thousands of years. So that’s rubbish. That’s a rubbish,’ he repeated.
Musk said liberals are showing their hypocrisy with their recent attacks against him – claiming they cannot support Hamas terrorists operating out of Gaza while also slamming him for supposedly using a Nazi salute.
‘The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi,’ Musk wrote on X.
Democrats and more progressive liberals have vocally slammed Israel for defending itself against Hamas terrorists operating out of Palestinian’s Gaza territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also came to Musk’s defense on Thursday, claiming he is a ‘great friend of Israel’ and saying liberals are ‘falsely smearing’ the billionaire
War broke out between the two sides after Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that was the largest single-day massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Just this month, Hamas and Israel reached a ceasefire agreement that finally saw the release of Israeli hostages.
Trump, and Republican politicians, are more vocal in their support of Israel – a U.S. ally – and during the president’s first term he moved the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
His first administration also negotiated the Abraham Accords to help strengthen security and relationships between Israel and its mostly-hostile neighboring countries.
