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The amphibian, displayed on Tuesday December 31 by the businessman and advisor to Donald Trump on his X profile, has long been an international code for the fascist sphere.
Elon Musk (53), the richest man in the world and close advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump, has mastered the art of buzz like no other. It was enough for him to rename his personal account on Tuesday, December 31 on reactions and press articles. “Kek” being a common expression online, synonymous with “lol”, its new alias in the form of a nod to the films Gladiator could mean something like “great joker”. But he also changed his profile photo, with an image that was surprising at first glance: a frog in Roman centurion armor, video game controller in hand. A nod to far-right codes.
“Pepe the Frog”, a character with the head of an amphibian and the body of a teenager who appeared in 2005, quickly became all the rage among fans of a then emerging web pop culture. They made it into a meme, one of those viral diversions that abound online. Nothing originally political in this good-natured frog who repeats «feels good man» (“that feels good, man”), which has become the symbol of a generation in the United States and used by global stars. Except that
