SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk was publicly branded a 'moron' on Sunday, 9 August 2026, after writing on his social media platform X that 'Hitler was a left-wing socialist.' The controversial assertion sparked immediate backlash across social media as commentators and users accused the billionaire of promoting what they described as a historical falsehood.
The latest online firestorm erupted after Musk quote-tweeted a post from an X user named Alice Smith, who had written that Hitler was a leftist due to his reliance on identity politics, collectivism and statism. Musk amplified the post to his vast audience by adding his own endorsement of the claim, prompting an immediate wave of criticism from political commentators and historians online.
