Elon Musk has taken to X to make a slew of Nazi jokes, fresh from having to bat away suggestions that he did a fascist salute on President Donald Trumpâs inauguration day.
With the worldâs eyes on the MAGA bossâ post-ceremony rally Monday, Musk took to the stage and gave a brief speech where he thanked the crowd for their support, before beating his chest and throwing his arm out straight.
And after a collective thud of jaws on the floor across the U.S. and beyond, the tech billionaire repeated the gesture. He has since defended it as a my âheart goes out to youâ gesture and railed against anyone who has tried to suggest otherwise. The MAGAverse has defended the gesture as being an accidental motion made by an awkward and excited man, definitely NOT a Nazi, Roman, or even remotely fascist salute.
Now, Muskâs deflection effort has mutated into the 54-year-old flat out making Nazi jokes on X. Whilst people on Eastern time were sitting down for breakfast, Musk took to Xâas he often doesâand decided to roll off five gags about the Nazi party and its senior figures, including the principal architect of the Holocaust.
âDonât say Hess to Nazi accusations!â came the first gag, a reference to Adolf Hitlerâs second-in-command, Rudolph Hess, followed by: âSome people will Goebbels anything down!â
Joseph Goebbels was the chief propagandist for the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945 and famously a very bad guy. The whoâs-who of the murderous far-right party continued with convicted war criminal Hermann Göring.
âStop Göring your enemies!â he said, before actually managing to wedge in a dig toward people who use gender pronouns, while cleverly mixing it with the name of Heinrich Himmler of the SS.
âHis pronouns wouldâve been He/Himmler!â he said, concluding his painfully cringe barrage of Nazi dad jokes with: âBet you did nazi that coming.â
It comes as his own father, Errol Musk, was forced to defend him. Muskâs dad told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo he couldnât âsee anything wrong withâ the gesture. âThatâs absolute nonsense. Absolute rubbish. Rubbish. Itâs a universal salute, or as you said, throwing his heart out, I suppose. Yeah, so itâs a universal thing for thousands of years. So thatâs rubbish,â Errol Musk claimed.
His estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, was not so forgiving. She did not mention her billionaire dad by name but made clear who she was referring to in an explicit string of posts on Threads on Tuesday.
âIâm just gonna say letâs call a spade a f---ing spade,â she said. âEspecially if there were two spades done in succession based on the reaction of the first spade.â