Main support of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, made a very controversial gesture akin to a “Nazi salute” for some, during the inauguration ceremony of the American president.
What was going through Elon Musk’s mind? The eccentric American billionaire owner of Tesla, Space X and the social network fervent support.
Certain voices, particularly in the ranks of the NFP in France, denounced a “Nazi salute” or at least a “fascist” salute, with Elon Musk’s supporters seeing it as nothing more than a simple gesture coming from the heart to the attention of his supporters and those of the President of the United States, gathered in large numbers in Washington DC “Thank you for making this possible, my heart is with you”, launched Elon Musk, raising his well outstretched arm, his palm wide open in both hands. times.
What is the point of such a gesture for those who support the AFD?
A “hello” that makes people react Big Mouths this Tuesday: “What would be the point of Elon Musk making a Nazi salute, a ‘Hitler’ gesture on the day his friend is inaugurated president of the United States?” asks Olivier Truchot who sees nothing but a simple outstretched arm.
“We cannot extinguish the hypothesis, it is perhaps a spirit of provocation to show that he has all the rights”, answers Flora Ghebali. “The Americans have a practice in television and a sense of show where everything is precisely measured and timed,” she continues on RMC and RMC Story.
-“It’s the typical example of the gesture that hides everything else,” judges Doctor Jérôme Marty. who sees it as a “media hype”, a “way of taking up space” and “he’s doing it to fuck up”. “It’s a freeze frame, it doesn’t rhyme with anything,” he adds, recalling in passing that Elon Musk recently supported the AFD, a German far-right party from which the RN has distanced itself .
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“He’s not a politician”
Olivier Truchot is convinced of this, it is at worst an involuntary gesture: “Elon Musk, he said it, he is autistic with Asperger’s (according to Elon Musk himself without having been diagnosed, editor’s note). I don’t see the reaction of someone who has trouble controlling himself and lives his best life on stage He’s not a politician, he’s a businessman and he doesn’t give a salute but gets carried away while speaking from the heart. “, he continues.
The main person responded to his detractors this Tuesday on his social network: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The attack like ‘Everyone is Hitler’ is so outdated”, assured Elon Musk on .
