Right-wing extremists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis are celebrating analarming gesturemade by the worlds richest man.
It wasnt a one-off.
He laterrepeated the gesture.
Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
Musks sway in the new administration is hard to overstate.
Im going to enjoy the tears over it.
Andrew Torba is the founder of the far-right Christian Nationalist social media platform Gab, which pioneeredAI-powered Nazi chatbots.
He shared the clip on his account with the caption: Incredible things are happening already lmao.
My heart goes out to you, he said after he did the gesture a second time.
However, Musk has allied himself with far-right movements in Europe, including theextremist German party AfD.
And his X account is sometimes hard to distinguish from far-right extremists.
