Did Elon Musk Do An Actual Nazi Salute?

Yes, definitely. Let's dive in and learn why.

Here is the moment with the salute in question .. You can watch the full speech here >>
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Elon has a history of supporting nazi's and nazi materials. Note the date on this article. This is one month before the inauguration.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-alternative-for-germany-election-far-right-nazi-past-rcna185018

NBC News article on Elon backing a Nazi party

Why On Earth Did Elon Do a Nazi Salute?

Yeah, we have to study internet culture a little bit here

Dude is not afraid to troll. "All trolls go to heaven" is certainly something he said.

Trolls are as old as the internet. The internet is a big place, it has lots and lots of people on it. It contains lots of smart people and lots of stupid people. Sometimes you get bored interacting with all these people. Sometimes you just want to fuck with them purely for the sake of fucking with them. You don't have good intentions or bad intentions, you only have intentions of having fun and getting a laugh out of the reactions. That trolling in its purest form. Pure trolling is often trying very hard to intentionally anger someone. You'll type/say literally anything as long as it makes that person angry. Many times I have argued with people on the internet just for the fun of it. I argued passionately for things that I didn't believe in a little bit. Sometiems I did it for the educational value, sometimes I did it out of boredom. Sometimes I just hated the person on the other end and wanted to make them angry. Now sometimes when you troll (often?) you will mix your personal opinions in with your trolling. This is what Elon does. His is a mix of trolling alongside his personal opinions and wishes. He's pushing his own agenda's and in his head he is mocking the people on the other side. He's having fun and getting his "LULz".

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Here is Elon mixing some white supremacism in with his twitter activities
I found this post on reddit to be rather beautiful and thorough. An Explanation of Elons Nazi salute by reddit user StoppableHulk Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1i88d9b/elon_musk_doubles_down_on_salute_controversy_with/m8r95yq/
Biographer Julie Gray left some commentary regarding the Nazi salute Biographer Julie Gray comments on the Elon Nazi salute

A few days after inauguration day he spoke to a group of European racists ..

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/is-elon-musk-a-nazi-and-can-he-get-european-far-right-hardliners-elected

“There’s too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move on from that,” he said, from a giant video screen.

The crowd cheered when he said, “It’s OK to be proud to be German. It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything.”

Of note, Elon certainly is no stranger to racism in his own history
Elon certainly is no stranger to racism in his own history Elon certainly is no stranger to racism in his own history
Why is Elon the way he is? Here is a post by Philip Low that is worth reading ..
https://bsky.app/profile/brainking.bsky.social/post/3lgscob4tpk26

I'm sure Elon and/or his supporters have denied it was a Nazi salute.

Open racism has not really worked nationally in America over the last 80 years. Any group that has tried to be openly racist has been relegated to the sidelines. Sure they've won some local elections in the deep south. Nationally, open racism has just been a flop. This is a really important concept to understand when considering the tactics of racism. They learned to hide their racism and disguise it behind terms like "ghetto" and "mooching off the government". The racists have learned over the years they cannot be open about it and win public discourse. You can look up "racist dog whistle" for endless discussions on this kind of topic. Suffice to say, the tactically smart racist would never ever ever be caught openly admitting to racism. He knows it would not work tactically.

I don't even think Elon is racist against Jewish people. Nazi's are allowed to hate other people that are not Jews. My opinion is that in his own brain he probably more hates light browned skin people, specifically Arabs and Latinos. To me, he seems likely to be some sort of anti-Arab Nazi. See this post from his own daughter ...

Elon calls Arabic the language of the enemy

Elon "My firstborn child died in my arms" Musk has been known to lie a lot

This video is an easy to understand example of how he just lies with ease - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmEe3eUPWq4

Elon does know how to do other things with his hands, he is not actually an idiot.