Donald Johannes Trump’s inaugural inauguration was an eventful event with speeches, dancing, and a disappointingly few riots. One far-right protester did manage to make headlines however by taking to the stage to perform a Nazi salute. Oh, no wait, that was Elon Musk.
During a speech he did his classic move: jumping up and down. He thanked the crowd and then performed a less classic move by thrusting out his downward palm in a worryingly familiar gesture. Maybe he just got caught up in the moment? Maybe he doesn’t have full control of his limbs, OH no, he just did it a second time.
Now Musk has finally taken to Twitter to clear up the confusion and explain what his angle was, except for 45 degrees.
“Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.” Agreed Elon, but calling someone Hitler is typically a hyperbolic attack on their words or policies. No one’s calling you Hitler, what people are saying is that you did a Nazi salute for some reason.
“Oh, OK, I’m sorry, I get you now,” responded Musk who I guess can somehow reply to what I’m writing in real-time? Errr…
“Let me explain, I was merely reaching up to high-five an old, long-lost friend of mine I saw in the crowd.”
Uh-huh. What’s that friend’s name, Elon?
“Adrian… err… Dittmann?”
Sure thing, and what about the second salute?
“Oh, that was to indicate to the sound team that I needed the volume raised.”
The sound team behind you?
“I was telling everyone how high Tesla profits are going to be.”
Sure.
“I was pointing out a cool bird I saw fly by.”
Right.
“I was indicating that I wanted someone to throw me a croissant.”
OK.
“I was showing off to everyone how long my arms are. By the way, they’re really long.”
Yeah.
“It’s a secret Illuminati symbol to indicate to my fellow lizard elite that the global new order is upon us.”
Pull the other one.
“I was just hailing a taxi.”
Sieg heiling?
“I was indicating how high you have to be to ride this ride.”
And how high were you?
“I was testing the aerodynamics of my hand for a future, err… space project.”
Alright, let’s wrap this up.
“I was using an ancient Roman greeting.”
Oh, you mean the salute that the Romans never actually used and was invented by a painting that the Nazis then co-opted thinking it was Roman?
“Errr, yeah, that one. Well, whatever, the democrats have done it too look at these pictures…”
Oh, SHIT OBAMA’S A NAZI?!
“Yeah, haha, HAHA! You see now?”
Alright, but these were taken out of context.
“Well, so was mine. Double standard. DOUBLE STANDARD!”
No, in these pictures they were probably talking about something else when raising their arm. It was to indicate a point, what was the point you were making.
“No, they were just using it for emphasis, just like me. You’re an idiot and you just lost an argument to a fictional version of Elon Musk in your own head.”
Oh, crap you’re right.
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