Elon Musk addresses rumors that he's 'a Nazi' following controversial salute at Trump rally
Topics: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, News, US News
Gerrard Kaonga
Featured Image Credit: Fox News
Topics: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, News, US News
Elon Musk dismissed the idea that he was a Nazi and insisted people were simply attempting to assassinate his character.
Sitting down with Fox News’ Lara Trump, Elon Musk dived into a whole host of topics, including the accusations that he was a Nazi.
This in references to the slews of accusations that came up against the billionaire over a rather odd gesture he made during Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Taking to the stage to praise Trump, Musk appeared to make a 'nazi salute'.
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The billionaire tech mogul commented: "Thank you for making it happen. Thank you, my heart goes out to you," before turning back to the audience and repeating the bizarre gesture towards the American flag.
This spread quickly on social media and resulted in a barrage of criticism against Musk.
Musk has repeatedly denied that he is a Nazi and argued the term was losing meaning since ‘Democrats’ are so regularly accusing people.
Speaking with Lara Trump, Musk argued people were using this accusation to undermine him as well as Trump.
He said: “It’s a relentless propaganda campaign, which obviously President Trump has experienced for a very long time.
“Twenty years, maybe longer. And politics is a blood sport. So they’re going to come up with whatever attacks they can to destroy the public perception of someone.”
He continued to insist that he is not a Nazi and that the biggest issue of the Nazis were not their dress or mannerism, but rather their quest to kill millions of people.
Musk added: “I’ve not harmed anyone in my life, so it’s an outrageous thing to claim that I’m a Nazi, because the issue with Nazis was not their mannerisms or their, you know, choice of dress, but the fact that they killed millions of people. That’s the issue.
“They’ve also called President Trump a Nazi, and there was one publication that said he’s … worse than Hitler, Stalin, and maybe Mao combined, but he also is not a violent person, and, in fact, has done a lot to prevent wars and stop wars, which is the very opposite of being a Nazi.”
Musk went on to disparage ‘legacy media’ and argued that people will simply believe negative things about him simply because they were told it ‘from the person on the TV’.
He concluded by saying ‘they’ are trying every angle to get to him, and said it was ‘disappointing’ how well propaganda works.