Elon Musk just gave TWO Nazi salutes from behind the presidential podium at the arena - video

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

MeidasTouch posted one on.Bluesky

Elon just did this…

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-01-20T20:02:21.668Z

so I went to X to look for video and found out there were two.salutes.


Aaron Rupar message on Bluesky:

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-20T19:58:05.706Z

[chowder66]

1. Time for his board members and employees to distance themselves.

[highplainsdem]

18. Definitely.

[surfered]

2. Sieg Heil!

[sheshe2]

3. Deport him.

[highplainsdem]

19. He's sure he owns Trump. Just as he thinks he'll soon own a new RW leader in Germany.

[sheshe2]

24. He thinks he does.

However TSF is all about himself and will not take second place. Muskie may end up overplaying his cards and can be dealt with. After all, tsf already got what he wanted, The W.H., where he can punish his 'enemies' and enrich himself beyond his wildest dreams.

I am not sure he needs EM all that much anymore...

Just my thoughts.

[KS Toronado]

67. Think Putin needs Musk and will inform donnie to be nice to him

But my God a Nazi salute at tsf's inauguration, how many MAGAts are going 2 B happy with that?
We should have that image on billboards everywhere with tactful questions about Fascism.

[sheshe2]

69. I am not sure that donnie needs putin anymore.

He is free, has presidential immunity and can do anything he pleases all on his own.

And yes, I saw the druggie rich boy give his Nazi salute. I don't think maggots really care, they love Russia and soon will be wandering around giving that salute as well. They are sick and stupid.

[99MainSt]

21. Exactly

Deport him back to South Africa.
It's probably only a matter of time before he and Trump butt heads.

[sheshe2]

27. Exactly, that is my thought as well.

Everyone should call Muskie, Mr President. Do it enough and he will be out of there in a NY minute.

[bdamomma]

65. Bring it on

Bannon, Musk and the felon go at it!!!

[debm55]

4. I am so glad you know how to post pictures. highplainsdem. I posted this earlier but lacked the ability to show it. That

so scarey. Thank you again.

[highplainsdem]

11. Thanks, Deb, but I just posted a tweet, which lets photos and videos appear on DU. Unfortunately

Bluesky posts show up here only as links, and I don't know whether they'll ever appear here as text with photos or video.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Elon is a racist nazi

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

22. He's doing his best to make that clear.

[ReRe]

41. Sickening.

[mahina]

64. Holy crap!

[SpankMe]

78. ...a Nazi with an office in the Whitehouse complex and the president's ear

I hope I'm not the only one being radicalized by this.

[magicarpet]

6. Wow,... he has a lot of ballz.

That SOB should be immediately deported with his assets seized by the US Treasury.

[MLAA]

72. He should be. I'm sure Pam Bondi will get right on it....

I think he will have a free rein and reign.

[Hope22]

7. And we depend on him for our space program.......😳

[Frasier Balzov]

8. That can't even pass for

"MY HEART IS YOUR HEART."

The move is just too Prussian. Too Teutonic.

[highplainsdem]

10. I've already seen one RWer on X say it's just the Roman salute, but the Nazis adopted the Roman salute.

[yardwork]

45. Yeah, that's funny.

[Wiz Imp]

58. Plus he's been trying to interfere in the German elections to get the neo-Nazi party elected.

[Nigrum Cattus]

61. They have excuses for everything but

1) We ain't in Rome
2) No reasonable person would do that
3) WTF ?

[Mossfern]

42. Especially

if you look at that expression on his face while he's giving that Nazi salute!

[spanone]

9. Afrikaner does what?

[Johnny2X2X]

12. He knew what he was doing

This wasn't a mistake. They literally worship the Nazis.

[highplainsdem]

14. Of course he did. Just as with the Nazi style cap he wore months ago.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219617178

[UTUSN]

13. Somebody asked what the "context" was!!!!!!!!!!!

[yardwork]

46. Of course they did.

[sop]

15. Yeah, that's not a casual wave or raised arm disguised as the nazi salute...that's a genuine nazi salute.

With emphasis added to leave no doubt the guy's a real nazi. Fuck you, Elon.

[debm55]

16. Asshole on CNN said he got caught up in the moment. WTF

[sop]

20. They're normalizing Nazi salutes now.

And swastikas will be described as ancient sacred symbols from other cultures.

[Cha]

44. Fucker Fish Face "Got Caught Up" in Outing himslef as a

Nazi Worshipper. on Pills.

[sop]

53. Josh Marshall, TPM, on seeing Elon's Nazi salute:

"Back in the first Trump presidency Trump’s critics spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get Trumpers to admit they’d done this or that, to apologize, whatever. This was always a mistake. I don’t need anyone to validate what I saw. I saw it. I don’t care what the explanation is. These are just twisted anti-American degenerates. We know this. Just what level of exuberant disinhibition led Musk to this moment or why this unmistakable gesture came so naturally to him … well, that’s really not my problem. Everyone knows what they saw here."

[Cha]

54. TY for that, sop. I like the way Josh Marshall

talks about We Saw.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Yeah

That was the literal Nazi Salute, even stomped his leg like it's officially done.

There are no coincidences, Trumps people have literally admitted their movement is modeled after Nazism.

[sop]

23. It's called "Habacht Stellung," or the attention position, bringing the heels together and creating an audible click

and standing smartly when one's commanding officer says "Achtung!"

[yardwork]

48. Which Musk couldn't do if his life depended on it.

Musk is the ultimate loser poser.

[BoRaGard]

25. Sicker than the average magat (R)

To think of all the American veterans who nobly fought and died to keep America free,
and the fugging republicons gaily hand it all away to fugging lying casino-hustling draft dodger
and his brood of Billionaire Bro A-holes (R)... beyond tragic.

[maveric]

26. This morning I set my clock back to 1933.

[sarisataka]

28. Reichsminister for Government Efficiency

Reichsminister für Effizienz der Regierung

[Dave Bowman]

29. What an asshole.

[moniss]

30. Hopefully this is now enough to remove

all but the hardcore who will love that he gave their salute. I got so tired of people over the years telling me I "didn't understand his genius" or he was "just joking and playing around". Clear Nazi salutes.

[LAS14]

31. I always ask this question.

How do we know this isn't a doctored video? It's not that I don't think Musk is capable of it. Nothing is unbelievable any more, but I do think we need to develop habits of double checking things. Has anyone seen this from a different source? From a different angle?

Reply #5 looks like it was shown on CNN. Did anyone here see it live?

[highplainsdem]

32. Yes. From multiple sources, video clips of different lengths.

[Baron2024]

35. I Saw It Live

I saw it live on ABC. It was shocking. It happened. It is real.

[debm55]

57. As I did on CNN

[sarisataka]

39. Google results: "Elon Musk gives nazi salute"

Elon Musk gives Nazi Salute

[Baron2024]

33. People Need To Wake Up

MAGA is the name for the new American Nazi Movement and they have just taken over the Federal Government. We must resist these MAGA Fascists at all costs. If and when they suspend the Constitution and the next elections, what will we do? If and when they start sending the Military door to door to round people up, what will we do?

[Bluethroughu]

34. This F-#%er just shit on the graves of every soldier!

Especially WW2!

[Initech]

36. And he's got an office in Fuckface's White House. WTF.

[Alephy]

37. I did nat zee that coming

[Lucky Luciano]

40. Killing Nazis is always good. 100% of the time.

[Baron2024]

43. Here Is The Video

Here is the full video of Musk's speech, under four minutes long. It is edited. They cut away from Musk just as he gave the first Nazi salute to the crowd. I do not think that this cutaway was a coincidence. They are covering up the Nazi salute. It happened. I saw it live on ABC.

After they cut back to Musk, he turns his back to the crowd and gives a second Nazi salute to the people behind him. This is about a minute in. We need to find the full video where they show the first Nazi salute to the crowd. It is shocking when seen. The video must be out there. I saw it live on ABC.

Why is the media not talking about this? Musk gives a Nazi salute live on TV to millions of people from the Inauguration of an American president and not one word from the mainstream media. It is disgusting. The fawning coverage of the fascist style of these proceedings as if nothing is wrong is disgusting as well. Anyway we need to find the full unedited version of the speech so people can clearly see both of Musk's Nazi salutes. Hopefully someone can dig that up. It has to be out there somewhere.

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[yardwork]

49. What's worse, the crowd cheered and applauded.

[William769]

47. Ho do you respond to something like this?

[highplainsdem]

51. Make sure it gets as much coverage as possible, and denounce it. Musk just hurt himself and Trump

quite badly here, and he hurt his neo-Nazi pals in Germany as well.

[calimary]

81. Well, let's hope so, anyway.

My problem is - I’ve seen way too much totally unacceptable behavior. AND just WAAAAAAAAAAY too much tolerance of it.

[Mike 03]

50. Kick and Recommended

[Baron2024]

52. Here Is Some Clear Video

[LetMyPeopleVote]

55. This was no mistake-Elon Musk gave two back to back Nazi salutes at the Trump inauguration parade

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[Swede]

56. There is only one first response.

[tulipsandroses]

59. One thing that gives me hope, is that Eloon has no discipline. Neither does trump.

Eloon's impulsivity is likely to cause chaos that the GOP does not want.

[Alpeduez21]

60. The scary thing is that it won't be long before the crowd starts doing it back. n/t

[bdamomma]

62. send this effing guy back to South Africa

Apartheid Elon.

[bluestarone]

63. EVERY rethug should be asked if they support this fucker

EVERYONE of them (FOR THE RECORD come 2026)

[moniss]

66. The image of him doing this is rapidly spreading over the entire

world. Hopefully this will give pause to Tesla in European operations/sales. Elsewhere as well hopefully. So an out in the open Nazi is deep into our military and national security structure as well as satellites for other communication as well. Now watch as they all run to the obedient corporate media to try and explain it all as "people misunderstood" what he was doing.

We'll really see now whether the VFW and American Legion as organizations really have a spine or if they are just using the vets to suck money out of their pockets.

[hadEnuf]

70. Are we really suprised at this?

[MustLoveBeagles]

73. Just that it happened this soon

He has no shame.

[AltairIV]

71. Asswipe.

This south african racist piece of shit knows exactly what he did. Asshole when the worm turns, and it certainly will, there will be no where to hide.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

74. It's time

For operation Valkyrie.

[SidneyR]

75. Are we sure it is not simply what they call "confirmation bias"?

His thumb is not aligned firmly as a proper Nazi salute would be, nor is the salute (or wave) aligned with the center of his body facing the audience. To me, what could be interpreted as a Nazi salute is more likely to be an exuberant wave, one that reaches too far in an effort to cover everyone who is present. It's similar to the wave by the Fox News lady a few years ago. We all have to guard against confirmation bias.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

76. No!

What we have to do is stop Nazis. And stop making excuses or normalizing them. We need to stop them in their tracks by any means necessary.

[SidneyR]

77. Indeed so, if they really are. They may be.

But the "salute" may simply be a sloppy wave.

[Emrys]

82. If I was on stage at a celebration of the coming to power of a ruthless self-serving megalomaniac

who's reputedly enjoyed Hitler as bedtime reading and delared his ambition to be a dictator, I would simply not make an extravagant gesture -twice - that could be interpreted as a Nazi salute.

Here's a thought, as I'm sure Musk's defenders on Twitter have cited Musk's alleged psychiatric diagnosis as a defence as they so often do when he fucks up socially - maybe Hitler was on "the spectrum" too.

[muriel_volestrangler]

79. The full footage of Musk, including him explaining his plans for bases on Mars

(with thanks to https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/people-this-is-supposed-to-be-a-happy-occasion )

[B.See]

80. Reminds me of the

fictional ex-Nazi Dr. Strangelove (in Kubrick's film of the same name and one of three roles masterfully played by Peter Sellers) who could not help but throw up the Nazi salute.

The fact that this Nazi is also in the White House should send a clear message to any remaining DENIERS, I think.

[Dem2theMax]

83. Can we please ban Twitter from DU NOW? nt.

[intrepidity]

84. My take

He may have really intended to gesture the "throwing my heart out to you" BUT... BUT... combined with the facial grimace and the *ease* with which his arm naturally took the shape and trajectory of a Nazi salute, indicates to me that he's thrown that arm around in that manner before, and muscle memory did what it does and revealed him.