Elon Musk, the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, said ā€œit’s an outrageous thing to claim that I’m a Naziā€ in a clip from an interview with Fox News that was released Friday, slamming how he’s been covered by the media. He also said that if his detractors could ā€œpress a buttonā€ and kill him, they would, but he is ā€œdifficult to kill.ā€

At Trump’s post-inauguration rally, Musk gave a straight-arm salute that many, including his estranged daughter, interpreted to be a Sieg Heil. Since he bought Twitter, now social platform X, he has restored white supremacist accounts that were previously banned. In March, as he was carrying out widespread firings of federal workers, he shared a post from an X account that said that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Mao Zedong didn’t cause the deaths of millions of people. Instead, public workers did. After criticism, he removed the post.

Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Musk spoke virtually at a campaign event for a far-right German political party, Alternative für Deutschland. He said that Germans should not lose their culture to ā€œmulticulturalism.ā€

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      14 hours ago

      It is true that he shouts so loudly with his actions that it’s hard to hear his lies. He’s really bad at it… I guess he’s not a very talented Nazi, but not for lack of trying.