The media has learned NOTHING these last eight years. Case in point, the frantic peddling of fake news again over Elon Musk’s gesture during his speech yesterday afternoon.
Elon Musk ignited speculation and chatter online when he made a hand gesture twice during a speech celebrating President Trump on Monday.
Speaking at a celebratory rally at the Capital One Arena in Washington hours after Mr. Trump was sworn in as president, Mr. Musk thanked the crowd for choosing Mr. Trump during “a fork in the road of human civilization.”
Mr. Musk, who leads Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, and who backed Mr. Trump last year during his presidential campaign, added, “I just want to say thank you for making it happen — thank you.”
The billionaire then grunted and placed his hand to his heart before extending his arm out above his head with his palm facing down. After he turned around, he repeated the motion to those behind him.
Let’s look at the video shall we?
To provide some more context to the video going around of @elonmusk, he says “my heart goes out to you”. pic.twitter.com/zXpJSePNkK
— Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) January 20, 2025
Here’s the full video of Elon’s speech. The “hand gesture” starts at about 50 seconds in. Watch the entire thing.
Let’s see, he’s throwing his heart DOWN to the crowd in front and up to the crowd in back. But, the media went in an entirely DIFFERENT direction immediately.
Very bold of CNN to insinuate the richest man in the world did a Nazi salute just three days after the network lost a bombshell defamation suit. https://t.co/TygcjLOORL
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) January 20, 2025
Pretty bold indeed given they have to pony up $5 million dollars for that debacle. And that’s in addition to whatever sum it was that CNN paid Nicholas Sandmann! Peddling fake news as fact can get you into BIG trouble guys!
Oh, but it wasn’t just CNN who decided this was a Nazi salute. PBS jumped into the fake news arena as well.
PBS News correspondent Stephanie Sy describes what she saw inside the arena:
— PBS News (@NewsHour) January 20, 2025
"We did see Mr. Musk during that speech and we saw the gesture. I don't know whether the audience here interpreted it the way it was subsequently interpreted on social media. It certainly appears to be… pic.twitter.com/lvWMxgmTry
So did TIME with an assist from Jerry Nadler.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) posted on X that he “never imagined we would see the day when what appears to be a Heil Hitler salute would be made behind the Presidential seal. This abhorrent gesture has no place in our society and belongs in the darkest chapters of human history.”
The Anti Defamation League had a far different take on this heartfelt gesture.
Anti-Defamation League Chief Executive Jonathan Greenblatt said he didn’t think Elon Musk’s viral gesture to the crowd at a Monday celebration of President Trump was offensive, after it drew comparisons on social media to a Nazi salute. “I think it was an awkward gesture. I don’t think it was intended to be a fascist salute,” Greenblatt said in an interview Tuesday, elaborating on the ADL’s statement from Monday. The ADL is a New-York based advocacy group that studies anti-Jewish attitudes.
Greenblatt said that at a time of rising antisemitism, social media can heighten people’s existing fears. “I understand why people feel anxious. I understand that people are on edge. I think we all need to take a breath and step back from the ledge, if you will,” he said, adding that people should be afforded some grace.
Well, here comes AOC roaring in from the sidelines with her shrieking harpy take.
Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 21, 2025
People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all. https://t.co/0gLdMCU3UV
They SO want this to be a thing. When it truly isn’t. It’s evident that Fake News is going to be peddled madly so that the Democrat media complex can protect their narratives with all their might. I guess they do really enjoy having their ass handed to them time and again over this crap.
Scott Jennings takes them to the woodshed over this.
The unhinged effort to brand Musk a Nazi for expressing his gratitude to the crowd at Trump’s afternoon rally is evidence that these liberal loons haven’t learned a damn thing – always primed to condemn, censor, even smear.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party, at Trump’s direction, has constructed a big tent – one large enough for RFK Jr and Elon Musk and the average shift worker. For the frat bros and the married women. For the young and old. For both genders and all races.
Trump’s GOP represents the broad middle of America – and his hysterical enemies are the people you slowly inch away from at a cocktail party. The entire ethos of the modern Democratic Party is veiny red faces, bulging eyes and blood-pressure cuffs, obsessed with maligning Trump’s character while never bothering to examine the flaws in their own leadership.
They won’t look in the mirror because reality will cause them to implode. Furthermore, they firmly believe there are no flaws, which is why they covered up Joe’s blatant cognitive decline for the last four years.
Not only that, but they ignore very REAL facts and news like this.
There are people on streets and college campuses making real Heil Hitler salutes in support of Hamas terrorists, and @AOC said nothing, because she agrees with their cause.
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) January 21, 2025
Please spare us the faux outrage when you think you can now weaponize hate for @elonmusk and the @ADL. pic.twitter.com/m8Em7rm8Uw
That all day and every single day from henceforward. I’m with Brit Hume, this is utter bullshit.
Frankly, they need better dirty tricks.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2025
The “everyone is Hitler” attack is sooo tired 😴 https://t.co/9fIqS5mWA0
But when that’s their only playbook. Be prepared. They’ll beat the Fake News horse until it’s dead and then beat it again all because Trump truly broke their brains.
Feature Photo Credit: Fake News vintage TV via iStock, cropped and modified
Lemuel Vargas says: Well, to me, let them do it again and again then expecting different results each time. This would drive up support for the MAGA (to me, former Tea Partiers), and also erode Dem support from those blue (Dem) states and cities.
GWB says: Well, Hegseth’s tattoo is still a White Supremacist thing, too – even after it being on the cathedral floor (and the fromt of the program) for Jimmah Carter’s funeral.
Don’t expect incredibly low IQ people to be convinced by reason that the world is not flat.
Don’t expect really lousy propagandists to stop using the only lies they’ve been taught.
Mad Celt says: What AOC knows and understands about the 3rd Reich could fill a thimble. For starters Hilter is dead, his successor was never permitted to assume power. The German Nationalist Socialist Party died at Nuremberg and has never resurged. The Biden administration was closer to the Nazi Party than anything the Trump administration has done, said or believes. If everyone who extents their arm, hand outstretched, is giving a salute to Hilter then all human beings are Nazis. Ignorance is so unbecoming in an elected official.
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