One of US President Donald Trump’s closest associates, billionaire Elon Musk, made a gesture that resembled a Roman salute during a speech in Washington.
Musk appeared at one of the events surrounding the inauguration of Donald Trump’s presidency and addressed the crowd at the Capital One Arena in Washington.
– These were choices that really mattered. And I want to thank you for your contribution to this. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured. Thanks to you, we will finally have safe cities, safe borders, sensible spending, basic things and we will bring DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) to Mars – he added, referring to the Department of State Efficiency, which he will head.
Musk made a gesture that resembled a Roman salute
Musk then struck his left chest twice with his right hand and stretched his arm forward with an open hand. The billionaire’s gesture was quickly subjected to intense analysis online, Reuters notes. Some commentators believe Musk performed the Roman salute, the Nazi salute and the “sieg heil.”
In a message published on the X website, Musk rejected the accusations against himself, stating that references to Hitler were “boring”.
Reuters notes that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of the oldest and most important Jewish organizations in the world, which aims to combat hatred and prejudice against Jews, came to Musk’s defense. “It appears that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, and not a Nazi salute,” the organization wrote on Platform X.
Reuters recalls in this regard that Musk recently declared official support for the anti-immigration and anti-Islam party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and conducted an interview with the group’s leader, Alice Weidel, which aired on X in early January was broadcast.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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