Elon Musk is a lot of things, but Nazi ain't one of them: Yesterday, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president. True to form, he held a rally afterward where he signed executive orders on stage, seemingly unable or unwilling to distinguish between campaign-rally mode and actual lawmaking mode. The crowd seemed to love it. We'll get to those executive orders in a second, but first: Elon Musk spoke and made some sort of bombastic gesture, saying "My heart goes out to you" and "It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured," noting that some elections don't really matter very much but that this one did.
Naturally, people are losing their fucking minds over this:
Historian of fascism here. That was a Nazi salute - and a very belligerent one too https://t.co/PB9sFCVJGA
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) January 20, 2025
