Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk’s Straight-Arm Salute – Rolling Stone

                        By  <a class="c-link  lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary-dark:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/tim-dickinson/"            >   Tim Dickinson</a>                       <br>    Right-wing extremists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis are celebrating an <a  href="http://um"  rel="nofollow"  target="_blank"  >alarming gesture</a> made by the world&rsquo;s richest man.&nbsp;<br>  At a post-inauguration rally Monday, <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/elon-musk/"  id="auto-tag_elon-musk"  data-tag="elon-musk"  >Elon Musk</a> thanked Donald Trump&rsquo;s supporters with a gesture that resembled a Roman salute, first putting his palm to his chest and then extending a stiff right arm toward the crowd, at a slight elevation and with his palm down. It wasn&rsquo;t a one-off. He later <a  href="https://youtu.be/zMtdDm02Ce0"  rel="nofollow"  target="_blank"  >repeated the gesture</a>.<br>     Musk&rsquo;s sway in the new administration is hard to overstate. The billionaire spent hundreds of millions to get Trump elected, and has been sitting shotgun for much of the transition period helping Trump shape his cabinet and incoming administration. Trump has tasked Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a quasi-governmental effort to eliminate hundreds of billions in federal spending. And in his inauguration speech, Trump also embraced Musk&rsquo;s life goal of colonizing Mars &mdash; as part of America&rsquo;s &ldquo;manifest destiny.&rdquo;<br><br>Regardless of whether the South Africa-born Musk intended the salute as a &ldquo;Sieg Heil&rdquo; salute favored by the followers of Adolf Hitler in World War II, as some online commentators have suggested, it was eagerly received that way by extremists online.&nbsp;   <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;"   class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0"       class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

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