A Republican official under fire in Pennsylvania for making a Nazi-like salute in a TikTok has resigned from multiple governing positions. Laura Smith, the Towamencin Township supervisor and vice chair of the township’s Board of Supervisors, appeared to mimic Elon Musk in the video she publicly shared Thursday, Jan. 23, according to PennLive.com.
Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith posted a now-deleted video in which she hit her chest three times and then extended her arm out in front of her, similar to Elon Musk's gesture last week.
The chairman of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center has accused Elon Musk of insulting victims of Nazism after the billionaire told a German far-right political party that the country needed to “move beyond” the “guilt” of the past.
The channel Vesti showed a clip of the Tesla CEO's controversial gesture but without his arm or chest visible.
Elon Musk, billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump, leaned into the accusations that his Monday salute was a “Sieg heil” gesture with a series of trollish Nazi puns on X. “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!
Elon Musk has responded to allegations that he performed a Nazi salute at President Donald Trump 's inauguration, calling it a "dirty trick" by his critics. Musk addressed the controversy on his platform X (formerly Twitter) Monday night, replying to a user: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."
A meteorologist in Milwaukee has been “dropped” by the TV station where she worked after criticizing Elon Musk in an Instagram post about his Nazi-like salutes, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
“It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote Monday in a statement on Musk’s own social media platform X, referring to Musk’s outstretched-arm movement that came as he was thanking his supporters.
A North Korean company started marketing its products with a reference to lessons learned in Russia's fight against Ukraine.
Elon Musk has finally responded to claims he allegedly gave a 'Nazi salute' during his speech at Donald Trump's inauguration last week
Musk aggressively thumped his open palm onto his upper chest and—to the shock of millions of viewers around the Western world—delivered a Roman, or fascist, salute.