Elon Musk gave a speech to enthusiastic Donald Trump fans Monday, hours after the presidential inauguration ... and he made a gesture that harkened back to a dark time.
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00:00I know that the graphic down here says alleged Nazi salute.
00:05I'm sorry.
00:06It's so generous to put the word alleged.
00:08So very generous, because to me it is indisputable that what Elon Musk did is a Nazi salute.
00:15What is that?
00:16Now watch, a second time.
00:17What his intention is, is what we can debate.
00:20Like why he did it, what he actually believes.
00:23That's a Nazi salute.
00:25But that thing that he did is a Nazi salute.
00:28Come on.
00:30This is absurd that we're even defending or talking about this.
00:33However, there is a group that is defending it.
00:37Right.
00:38And it's not a Nazi group.
00:40The group that is defending it is the Anti-Defamation League.
00:43The group that promotes the ability of Jews to live freely without violence.
00:49But this was their response.
00:51It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.
00:56Not a Nazi salute.
00:58In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit
01:02of the doubt.
01:03Take a breath.
01:05Let's hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
01:09I am stifled by this.
01:12I am so upset.
01:13Well, I know what it's about.
01:14Rightfully so.
01:15The ADL.
01:16You know what this is about.
01:17That look, Donald Trump is a big supporter of Israel.
01:20There is a lot of anti-Semitism out there.
01:22There are a lot of people in Congress that are not supporters of Israel.
01:26And the ADL wants to hitch its wagon to Donald Trump because he's supporting Israel.
01:31So he's supporting Israel in the Gaza dispute.
01:34And they will forgive anything around his orbit, in his orbit, that they have to in
01:40order to preserve the support of Donald Trump.
01:43I think that is exactly what Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks.
01:48Her response after she saw what the ADL said, she said, just to be clear, you are defending
01:53a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.
01:59People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information
02:03now.
02:04You work for them.
02:05Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.
02:07I got to say, she's got a point here.
02:10I'm really upset that the ADL did this because, look.
02:13Because your point is, they can say that they like Donald Trump for his support of Israel.
02:18They can say they love Donald Trump.
02:19But why not call out something when everyone can see it with their own eyes.
02:23Call it out for what it is.
02:24And by the way, before, and I know there are people who are going to say that Elon Musk
02:28is not a Nazi and that he doesn't really believe that.
02:32It almost doesn't matter.
02:33It's actually even worse.
02:34It's the symbolism.
02:35If you're doing it just to be, as a troll, as just to stoke discussion or debate on social
02:42media, screw you.
02:43That's terrible.
02:44That is awful.
02:45That's terrible.
02:46They're an awful thing to do.
02:47That's terrible.
02:48Well, guys, I think one of the most concerning aspects in all of this has been Elon's response
02:51to the backlash.
02:53Like, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say that it was not a Nazi salute.
02:57Well, everyone seems to think so.
02:59So you would think if you're in Elon's position, you would at least come out and say, hey,
03:03I know what you guys think, but that's not me at all.
03:06Instead, he said, frankly, they need better dirty tricks.
03:10The everyone is Hitler attack is so tired.
03:14Why is it so hard for him just to come out and say, hey, that's not what I meant to do
03:18at all.
03:19If you thought that was what I meant, I'm sorry.
03:21Yeah, I agree with you.
03:23It's like how many times do people roll out the that was a Hitler salute thing?
03:27I haven't heard a lot of it.
03:29I haven't seen anybody do it that way other than not since other other than hate groups
03:35in a long, long time.
03:37But look, whatever his intention was, that was wrong.
03:41And for the ADL to just blindly say, oh, we don't want to lose Donald Trump.
03:46We can't live this way where you have to be the friend of the friend on one hundred
03:52percent of the time or else you're the enemy.
03:54But here's the problem.
03:55If they if they call him out, what you're asking the ADL to do.
03:59And I agree with you completely.
04:01And this is what they should do.
04:03But what they won't do is say to Donald Trump, hey, get control of your buddy over here.
04:09Get control of him.
04:10They don't want to say that to him because they know that Donald Trump isn't going to
04:13do.
04:14Well, how about this?
04:15You don't have to bring Donald Trump's name in.
04:16What Elon Musk did was horrible.
04:18Hey, it's Whitney from Bryan, Arkansas, here.
04:21The inauguration was not the time and place to do something like that.
04:25Like you said, it could just be him trolling.
04:27I don't think that was the case.
04:29And I think the time and place was not it.
04:31And it was just classless.
04:33But it's God isn't talking about him.
04:35So.