Did Elon Musk give a Nazi salute at an inaugural rally with Trump supporters? In a sane world the question would be absurd to even consider, but we live in the Truman Show. 

I think it's cute that the media still think they have the power to make another hoax go viral but it's 2025 and we're so done with this nonsense. https://t.co/Ny8Js9w6Sh

— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) January 20, 2025

If you believe the Pravda Media and the left-wing hoaxers, you might think he did. I took a quick break from watching X and the festivities to lie down yesterday afternoon and was greeted by a torrent of tweets insisting that Elon Musk has liberated his inner Nazi and spoke at the Nuremberg rally or something. 

CNN's Erin Burnett and Kasie Hunt omit @elonmusk saying "I'm giving you my heart" after greeting the crowd, failing the "smear @elonmusk as a Nazi without saying Nazi so as to avoid another defamation lawsuit" challenge pic.twitter.com/3Pd0mHO7DE

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 20, 2025

CNN was, of course, merely repeating what Democrats and all leftists on X were repeating ad nauseum: THE MASK IS OFF, THE NAZIS ARE OPEN ABOUT IT! Aaron Rupar went there. Many accounts went there. It was the meme of the day. 

Day 1 of the Trump Presidency and a new hoax has already dropped pic.twitter.com/bL9ya2WMaT

— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) January 20, 2025

And, of course, it was all BS. 

As a person with a *strong* track record of criticizing Elon Musk, I feel extremely confident asserting that this was not a Nazi salute. Elon Musk is a friend to the Jews. This is a man with Aspergers exuberantly throwing his heart to the crowd. We don't need to invent outrage. https://t.co/pWacrg8HmM

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) January 20, 2025

As with the "fine people" hoax, this was a masterclass in deceptive video editing for the purpose of character assassination. This time around the sly edit was omitting what Elon Musk said in an emotional call out to the crowd. 

“My heart goes out to you!”

Desperate to attack the inauguration, leftists and liberal media are claiming that @elonmusk was giving Nazi salutes in his speech. pic.twitter.com/0bdiGxcq1Z

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 20, 2025

He puts his hand to his heart and symbolically throws it out to the crowd, and enthusiastically says, "My heart goes out to you!"

That is 1000% a Nazi salute being given behind the presidential podium on Inauguration Day (also MLK day) by the richest person on the planet. That moment will live in infamy. pic.twitter.com/dkfVMC5Fpk

— Kahlief "Positivity Peddler” Adams (@KahliefAdams) January 20, 2025

That, my friend, is what makes you a Nazi, according to our Pravda Media. Throwing your heart out to a crowd. 

I can’t wait to hear CNN’s lawyers talk in court again about how they can’t possibly pay after losing the incoming lawsuit because they’re too poor. Lol

— AC Super Nut (@AC_Super_Nut) January 20, 2025

You could do this sort of thing to just about anybody, just as you can make anybody look intellectually disabled by freezing a frame in a video to catch their face in some sort of awkward contortion. 

Kamala did a literal Nazi salute and the Dems said nothing.

Elon does a gesture to the crowd and the Dems take it out of context.

That tells you everything about who they are. pic.twitter.com/qCeqxEURR1

— Cillian (@CilComLFC) January 20, 2025

This is what Karine Jean-Pierre would call a "cheap fake," right? Except the Biden videos weren't taken out of context. 

They're really going to run with this, huh? https://t.co/lRD079ATbx

— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) January 20, 2025

I know a bit about Rupar because he used to be based here, and he pretended not to be a partisan hack. We all knew he was, and he barely pretended not to be. 

But because he worked for the Pravda Media, it didn't matter. He was as honest then as he is now, which means not at all. 

The left: OMG eLoN iS a NaZi

Also the left: 🥰👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/rpQHJuBHMZ

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) January 20, 2025

By now this sort of hoaxing only works on the truly deranged, but don't underestimate the number of such people. In a country this large, this amounts to many millions of people, and the point is to stir up as much hatred as possible. 

You just paid for this obvious lie by PBS. The government takes your money and gives it to them, NPR and other egregious outlets. All the more reason why Congress must dissolve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and do it quickly. https://t.co/qMighHPy3c

— Mike Gonzalez (@Gundisalvus) January 20, 2025

I don't think it will hurt Trump or Musk with the vast majority of people. But hate fuels the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and the media is working hard to keep hate alive. 

We know that many of those same white nationalists and Nazis have been giddy with excitement at Musk's embrace of their cause, that they see Musk, Trump and Vance as part of their movement. We know that Vance followed many white supremacist accounts on Twitter in the summer.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) January 20, 2025

This is why I have said many times now, far more than the Democrats, the Pravda Media is our real enemy. Democrats, for the most part, are simply mercenary. They are hoping that the progressives can whip up enough energy to help them make gains in the smaller turnout elections of the midterms. If they realize that hate hate hate doesn't get them enough votes, they will shift positions somewhat. 

Keep in mind that academia is full of these types of people. https://t.co/k9NyJ7hmsa

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 20, 2025

But the media--it is their job to spread The Narrative, and because of that they must be destroyed. 

This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on…

— ADL (@ADL) January 20, 2025

If you need a reminder of how shameless the Pravda Media is, Jake Tapper, who just got hit with a judgment for slandering a veteran after a trial that proved malice on his part, had this to say "misinformation."

CNN’s Jake Tapper melts down over the mere presence of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg being around Trump.

Tapper: “We’re about to enter an era of deepfakes and all sorts of misinformation”

Jake Tapper wanted you to believe Biden has been mentally stable for four years. pic.twitter.com/9Twyf7lIyc

— Media Lies (@MediasLies) January 20, 2025

You can't make this stuff up. The Pravda Media will go down fighting, and we have to crush them utterly, burn down their buildings, and salt the earth on which those buildings stood (metaphorically). 

Pravda delenda est. 

The same people who said Trump is Hit|er are now saying @elonmusk is a N×zi 🤡 pic.twitter.com/N2uxKJMNWX

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) January 20, 2025