The Tesla and X owner, a close ally of the President, greeted the audience at the Capitol One Arena, where Trump is due to arrive to view an inaugural parade later today.
“And this was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilisation. There are elections that come and go. Some elections are important, some are not, but this one really mattered and I just want to say thank you for making it happen.”
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty)He then turned around and made the same gesture to the crowd behind him.
CNN host Kasie Hunt said the salute was “evocative of things that we have seen throughout history,” noting that Musk had lent his support to Germany’s far-right AFD party.
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-20T19:58:05.706Z“‘It was a Roman salute’ is an updated version of ‘actually, the Buddhists also used swastikas’,” the Washington Post columnist Philip Bump wrote on BlueSky. “If you are using it post-1945, you know very well that the association has changed.”
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