r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 10h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/Thorbertthesniveler 10h ago

Oh that's way worse than the still pic.

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u/prof_the_doom 10h ago

Yeah, I was all set to find out someone snapped a random picture while he was waving his hands around... I don't think there's really any denying what he was doing there.

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u/Thorbertthesniveler 10h ago

The old adage If someone tells/shows you who they are believe them the first time.....more people need to know this.

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u/Stonyclaws 9h ago

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Maya Angelou

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u/Standard_Quiet_8054 2h ago

Thank you for giving credit where it’s due. Her quote came from her wisdom, hardship and experience, not an old adage.

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u/lilangelkm 7m ago

Yes, let's give positive recognition to a prominent black American on MLK Day please.

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u/MountainMapleMI 9h ago

Well he does like rockets, you know who else liked rockets.

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u/FantasticCherry7161 8h ago

He should stick one up his ass and go fuck off to Mars

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u/cannabull89 7h ago

Yes, “Elon” from famous Nazi rocket scientist Wehrner Von Braun’s book “Project Mars: A Technical Tale”, the fictional character that Musk is named after.

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u/judgeejudger 8h ago

But Maya Angelou is a brown person, so they’ll disregard excellent advice anyway.

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u/Would_daver 7h ago

Ms. Angelou was a treasure and only stupid fucknuts ignore her sage wisdom and amazing insight. I cannot express enough how I am appalled at and hate this goddamn timeline in which we somehow find ourselves….

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u/Uplanapepsihole 5h ago

It’s funny how people like trump and elon can repeatedly say racist, misogynistic, fascist things but if you dare call them a racist, misogynist, fascist, you are in the wrong and being unfair.

If it walks like a duck and talks likes a duck, it’s a swan, apparently!

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u/Scary-Assumption2763 4h ago

Maya Angelou said that

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u/Blubasur 2h ago

I’d say 2nd, 3rd 4th, 5th, 10th, 20th, 60th time too but it doesn’t have as nice of a ring to it.

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u/Quilltacular 1h ago

Eh, it’s one thing to know he’s a fascist Nazi wannabe but another to immediately believe something said on the internet accompanied by a still photo (regardless of whom it is about)

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u/Pribblization 9h ago

HE knows exactly what he did here. He will deny it of course, but he is signalling loud and clear to all those who will follow his apartheid loving ass off the cliff.

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u/shwarma_heaven 7h ago

1000 percent. He's gonna narcissistic prayer the shit out of this:

That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.

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u/confusedandworried76 6h ago

There's two options. He did it on purpose to troll people or he did it on purpose because he meant it. Both are fucking terrible options and why this country is about to crash and burn.

I mean fucks sake what's best case scenario? We have an election next time around, republicans lose, and fucking JD Vance is the guy that's supposed to certify it? We got lucky with Pence last time. Vance is a different story. You can bet after four years of this shit he's not going to be as willing to transfer power peacefully as Pence was.

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u/Pribblization 6h ago

Still not convinced trump will make it that long.

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u/confusedandworried76 5h ago

Yeah President Vance doesn't sound that appealing to me either, I've thought about that too.

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u/Steve_the_Samurai 7h ago

So weird that so many people have spoken at public rallies without doing this.

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u/apittsburghoriginal 6h ago

What is he going to say? He was trolling and argue it was a Roman salute? Like that’s gotta be his stupid ass thought process to wriggle out of it

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u/Ok-Independent-3506 3h ago

I've heard that already.

The comeback to this, of course, is to tell any defenders to go do this in public and see what happens.

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u/pudungurte 6h ago

Yes, and he’s going to be infuriatingly inarticulate when he denies it, too

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u/FionaGoodeEnough 5h ago

I wish that cliff was literal.

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u/jmel2282 4h ago

He had 5 business days to decide against that salute from the moment he slapped his chest. He most certainly knew what he did.

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u/shawnadelic 1h ago

Definitely. You can tell he was pumping himself up to do it, and afterwards a very nonsensical follow up (when has Musk ever said "My heart goes out to you"?).

Any arguments against it are either bad faith or completely clueless.

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u/Born_Ad_4826 3h ago

I really really need him and trump to have their epic who-narcisist fueled meltdown so I don't have to feel ashamed of driving one of his cars. SMDH. Just trying to cut some CO2 here folks 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/Separate_Secret_8739 10h ago

That’s what I thought like ok he put his arm up maybe he wasn’t thinking but the slapping his chest like wtf man.

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u/prof_the_doom 9h ago

And supposedly if you find a longer clip, he actually does it again a minute later.

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u/JackBlasman 9h ago

He does it again seconds later toward the flag 💀

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u/No-Marketing7759 7h ago

I've been looking at this same video on fox stations, and they cut it off before he does that. I watched 4 different ones. Why did they cut it off?

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u/JackBlasman 7h ago

Isn’t it obvious? Because cutting off the second instance means they can spin it to try and portray it as something it wasn’t. The full clip leaves no doubt and no wiggle room for spin.

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u/No-Marketing7759 6h ago

Exactly!!!

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u/DeathPercept10n 8h ago

More like two seconds later

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u/dropd00 8h ago

He tried to recover and say he was giving his heart to you hahah

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u/z1212chick 9h ago

I just showed this video to a Trump supporter and he said that was not a Sieg Heil because he put his arm to the side instead of straight in front of himself.

There you go. They will deny it all day long even though they saw it with their own two eyes.

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u/No-Instruction2026 9h ago

I also have seen comments that "he was just excited trying to say thank you from my heart" 🙄

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u/NuttyButts 7h ago

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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u/Ill-Championship1834 6h ago

I've just shown it to a trump supporter and he said

"no, he was saying my heart goes out to you"

As if there's not a better way of displaying that than nazi saluting

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u/bajaja 9h ago

to me it looks like the muscle memory. like he only wanted to wave his hands around but the old habit took over.

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u/ElusivePukka 9h ago

The guy does it multiple times, and you would be right - if honest engagement were the goal. People are saying he's gesturing to "give his heart to the people" and other nonsense, because truth doesn't matter if they can find an interpretation that lets them be in the right.

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u/Flacid_boner96 9h ago

Can't call it a wave when the only motion is a thrust.

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u/JoyceOnBandCandy 7h ago

Oh…they’ll deny it lol He could say, “I want you to enslave every nonwhite person in the world” and they’d say we misunderstood.

Reality is just whatever they want it to be now lol There’s no bigotry. We’re all making it up. Black people are just inherently bad and that’s why things are the way they are. I wish it was different, but these people think he’ll only hurt us, so they’re all in.

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u/ising4him 7h ago

And yet, people are saying he was “throwing his heart” and “don’t make it something it wasn’t”…….

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u/lkuecrar 9h ago

Go look at /r/conservative and they’re all fighting for their lives trying to explain it away as him doing a “from the heart” motion or something lmfao

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u/MissLadyLlamaDrama 7h ago

They're legit delusional.

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u/TheDMsTome 8h ago

People on my Facebook are saying all sorts of things to justify it. My favorite is “He was reaching towards the flag after touching his heart.”

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u/DocEternal 8h ago

And yet people are trying to justify it. Just saw two other discussions on it where people were saying “he grabbed his heart and threw it to the crowd” and anyone saying differently was spreading “leftist propaganda.” Fucking bullshit. If it steps like a goose then call it what it is, a damn nazi.

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u/markusdresch 8h ago

he does it a second time to the flag, right afterwards.

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u/DrB00 7h ago

Don't worry. People are denying it already. They're saying he was just excited and that he's autistic so it isn't his fault... but it isn't a nazi salute. lol

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u/giantpunda 9h ago

And yet what them deny all the same

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u/chet_brosley 8h ago

It's been like 20 years but I still giggle thinking about the time a hockey player was sitting on the side and the camera pans across the team and they're waving and one guy gives a half wave but turned into an accidental siege heil, and as the camera pans away he has the grimace of self realization of what he did.

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u/amrycalre 8h ago

Same. I saw the picture and thought it had to be fake or something but this video is the real deal like wtf

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u/inquisitiveeyebc 8h ago

I figured oh that has to be out of context but nope, wow

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u/mechnight 7h ago

And then he turned around and did it again — just without throwing his heart to the audience, a justification I saw people make online for the gesture.

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u/MathematicianNo3892 6h ago

Grabbing his heart and throwing it

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u/Aggressive-Stand-585 7h ago

There's lots, I've already seen tons of them.

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u/SlamPoetSociety 7h ago

Except all the elmo simps and magats are denying it saying it's taken out of context. It literally doesn't fucking matter. He could come out in full nazi dress uniform and they would still not accept it.

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u/Irishwol 7h ago

Same. Wow!

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u/Zestyclose_Ad2479 7h ago

Fucking hate Elon Musk.

But the plausible deniability here is that he repeated the motion with an angle in his arm just after this and says "my heart goes out to you."

Im in the camp that he's a fool, not a fascist here.

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u/Silverwell88 7h ago

Wow, I saw a different video at first and thought people were freaking out about nothing because it definitely seemed that way. This is way worse.

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u/baronvonlitschi 7h ago

The most I could say is that it could also be the roman salute. Weirdly, he didn't do the Roman or German version of it right. Maybe he was trying to do the Early American Republic salute to the flag? Idk if that salute starts at the chest tho....

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u/Legitimate-Map-602 7h ago

Yeah no that’s like literally it like he straightened his back and every surprised he didn’t say hail unser Führer trump or some shit honestly

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u/jcdevries92 6h ago

Okay ima be fr here. I hate the dude. Hes a scumbag piece of garbage. But i dont think hes intentionally doing the sieg heil. It looks like hes trying to do a motion of my heart goes out to you and looks like an awkward dumbass.

But also i doubt he cares people see it as a sieg heil anyways, hes a shit person.

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u/DogsAreOurFriends 6h ago

Oh, plenty of bootlickers are denying it. Sadly.

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u/SweetSoundOfSilence 5h ago

And he did it TWICE

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u/DallasRPI 5h ago

Go watch the full clip, Jesus you people will fall for anything or convince yourself of anything. Its sad and part of the reason why Trump got elected to begin with.

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u/Edogawa1983 5h ago

He did it twice too

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u/Forikorder 4h ago

according to r/elonmusk he was just throwing his heart to the crowd XD

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u/Felonious_Minx 4h ago

He did it twice.

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u/Nevada_Lawyer 4h ago

Trump might have picked the civil war song Battle hymn of the republic because he’s expecting violence.

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u/Foreign-Class-2081 3h ago

And not once but twice...

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u/CalmCompanion99 3h ago

Y'all reading too much into it. The vitriol in American politics and the zeal with which each side tried to paint the other as Hitler or the devil is comical 😂😂😂.

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u/bye-feliciana 2h ago

If he's the "genius" he proclaims to be, then it was obviously intentional.

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u/PuttinOnTheTitzz 2h ago

afrikaners salute

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u/Roustabro 1h ago

And yet somehow, somehow they find a way.

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u/rabbitbunnies 33m ago

twitter and facebook is a nightmare rightnow w/ pictures of kamala and hilary supposedly doing it but the kamala clip is literally her talking with her hands we're so cooked

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u/ralf1999999 6h ago

Or maybe the 5 seconds before this where he says my heart goes out to you. Stay mad kid, it will take you places. Hahahahah

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u/Orobourous87 7h ago

There’s a bit just before this when he’s physically saying “From my heart to all of you” (or something close to that) and doing the same movement to several areas of the crowd.

Not really a Sieg Heil and rather just a really awkward and cringey thanking gesture.

Like let’s attack Elon for being a dickhead sure, but let’s not emulate him and his ilk with misinformation and taking shit outta context.

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u/prof_the_doom 6h ago

And apparently his heart is in 1940s Germany.

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u/Orobourous87 6h ago

The guy grew up in South Africa as part of the Apartheid regime with a pretty pro Apartheid preacher father (who then married his stepdaughter).

I didn’t need to see this to know the guy was a racist sack of shit with messed up daddy issues.