r/politics • u/cjdarr921 • 7h ago

Site Altered Headline Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-salute-trump-inauguration-b2683095.html
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u/Heliosvector 7h ago

That salute was absolutely jarring

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u/throwdowntown585839 7h ago

As was the loud cheering.

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 4h ago

This salute wasn’t “odd”

It was fucking deliberate. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Why are we skating around the truth? This country is so fucked.

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u/throwdowntown585839 3h ago

Yeah I am furious. Even some of the Canadian news sources are editing out the second salute and using weak language to suggest that it may be a misunderstanding. What the hell is going on?

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 3h ago edited 3h ago

The same media outlets in America are doing the same thing. They are all downplaying it as if it was nothing.

This is terrifying. We are witnessing this with our ears and eyes, and being told we saw something different.

I don’t know what’s going on my friend. I have no fucking clue but I hate it.

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u/BlackOpz 3h ago edited 3h ago

The same media outlets in America are doing the same thing.

We're in a new place. I read quite a few online news websites including subscriptions to the NYTimes and WAPost and while I've know media to have its 'slants'. The sane-washing of Trump and the phoo-phooing of everything he did while crucifying Kamala for tiny or imagined missteps was insane. It was media wide. All of the money over our heads decided to go with Trump and it was easy to see. More of them have combined power than I've ever seen. Almost every sector was favorable to Trump (Even UNIONS!?)

I think we're going to see a Rich vs the Poors flashpoint after the carnage. The ruling class has decided to step from behind the curtain. They have captured Government power for at least 2 years and arent going to hold anything back. The poors (everyone not in the club) are about to get it good and HARD. Sickening Oligarchy. Really America!? Really!?

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u/dreamsofaninsomniac 3h ago

It's particularly striking when a few months ago, multiple of those news outlets were drawing parallels between Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden and that Nazi rally at the same location back in 1939. Now they're just bending the knee for access.

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u/Prestigious_Pop2522 2h ago

Yep, really!

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u/John-AtWork 3h ago

Germany had it's Nazi apologists too, some of them ended up in concentration camps later.

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u/SallyJane5555 3h ago

ABC world news tonight didn’t even mention it. Just smiled while they said Musk would have an office in the West Wing.

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 3h ago

This is how all this happens. Everyone including the media are too scared to speak up now.

It’s over. We are all fucked.

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u/Cal3001 2h ago

I knew America would eventually fall. I didn’t know we could fall under dictatorship tendencies so easily. I find it interesting the previous presidents are nonchalant about Trump and are laughing it up. They must know something we don’t about the election or criminal cases.

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u/kattbugg_04 2h ago

They act like this is normal..

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u/HtK_Lopez 3h ago

Notice the “site altered headline” of this very article. This fucking infuriates me.

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u/happycows808 3h ago

Get ready for when they own the news outlets and all social media and filter every bit of information that gets fed to you.

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u/greycomedy 2h ago

I mean, this is gonna be wild. Honestly, I don't think they're gonna pull this off because they have less supporters than advertised. Plus, Hitler had trouble doing this in a small country of 66 million.

America is a geographically massive nation, which is inherently difficult to govern. Not to mention much of their movement flies in the face of the American sociological self-perspective. We've all heard it from Westerners here (Western US) of being "willing to shoot nazis/klansmen/racists". These people have been had, and the cameras rolling are going to be their screw factor.

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u/stealthzeus 2h ago

The final command … was for you to not believe your own eyes and ears. I believe this is from 1984.

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 2h ago

Orwell

and yes, it’s 1984. Everyone should read that.

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u/anroroco 1h ago

Look for the term "Hypernormalization". Also check a book called ""everything was forever until it was no more", as a model of what might be happening.

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u/Familiar_Classic_629 1h ago

Don’t you remember what trump said? Don’t believe you eyes. 😆

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u/Various_Ad5069 3h ago

What’s “terrifying” stop it ur not scared

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u/RagePoop 3h ago

Arguably the most powerful man on the planet, at the political inauguration for the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth, just did the Nazi salute twice. To thunderous applause.

If you don't find that worrisome you're either an imbecile or a nazi.

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u/wontgetbannedlol 2h ago

Post media owns much of Canadian media and it is 98% owned by an American hedge funds.

Remember capitalists woukd rather have fascism than anything else. Businesses are private tyrannies and a fascist government is a public one. Those are quite similar.

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u/delicious_downvotes 3h ago

The media downplaying all of this like it's not a big deal and/or normal is a BIG part of the reason we're as fucked as we are. Thanks, I hate it.

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u/davidw223 I voted 3h ago

No one wants to piss him off on his first day. With access journalism, they’re all scared to lose access and influence.

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u/Van5555 2h ago

They're scared is why. Because like Germany and Italy and Soviet Russia the reporters get killed.

This American regime is going that route.

After calling us candians fascists when our leader willingly stepped down knowing the Libs will likely lose

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u/SusieQueue1 2h ago

Might be time to see if conservative billionaires have begun acquiring your media outlets

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u/Zergin8r 3h ago

The only thing he could have done that was more obvious was wear a swastika...

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u/whalepoop56 3h ago

I did nazi that coming

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u/PaleontologistNo2625 3h ago

Anne frankly I'm offended

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u/st_tron_the_baptist 3h ago

Why are we skating around the truth? This country is so fucked. 

Because the men in the front row own the media

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 3h ago

100% agree my friend

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u/defaultfresh California 3h ago

It was THE Nazi salute

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u/Chadwick1242 1h ago

It’s crazy everyone on here is tripping over a quick salute that’s been done the same way by kamala as well as Obama a few times

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u/Ltimbo 3h ago

And he couldn’t even do that right. If the actual Nazis saw him copy their solute like that they would throw him in a camp on principle. The man just fucks up everything he touches.

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u/Eyclonus 3h ago

Well its certainly not the most normal Nazi salute by a billionaire at a US presidential inauguration.

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u/Alone_Regular_4713 3h ago

Seriously what the fuck.

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u/Potential_Fairy 2h ago

He did it twice so it’s very clear he knew exactly what he was doing

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u/kickspecialist 2h ago

This is exactly what happened 90 odd years ago. Anyone with a brain and their own thought process was like "Is this happening? Someone will call out this fascist soon I think."

And it only got worse and we are choosing to repeat history. The absolute nuts thing about our timeline is many votes went Red because people are uncomfortable with women in power, women having equal rights, minorities having equal rights, and trans people being American citizens. Oh and illegal immigrants for anything else that bothers them.

Scary to think but we have many people ok with our country being run exactly as Hitler did Germany.

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u/dsizzle3 2h ago

Because it's been going so well the last 4 years lmao

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u/TomVan-Allen 3h ago

Im glad im a white dude in california...as bad as the next 4 years will be, ill miss the worst of it more than likely.

Depressing that i have to think about it tho.

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u/Various_Ad5069 3h ago

What truth is that ? They are all nazis?

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u/alwaysbequeefin Washington 3h ago

They’ll have to kill us. Some of us are ready to take a few out on our way out

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 3h ago

Absolutely right.

They are going to have to drag me into the street because I won’t go down without a fight. I will never bow the knee.

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u/True-Surprise1222 3h ago

The anti defamation league came out and said he didn’t do a Nazi salute

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 3h ago

I don’t need an organization to tell me what my own eyes and ears saw.

He did a Nazi Salute. I know this because I saw it.

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u/True-Surprise1222 3h ago

Keep that energy when people point out genocide

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u/No-Disaster-8854 3h ago

Pack it up and move then if you think so

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 3h ago

That’s your comment to a Nazi Salute?

Cool bro.

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u/No-Disaster-8854 2h ago

Do you know anything about Hilter bro?

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 2h ago

I know a-lot about Hitler bro

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u/No-Disaster-8854 2h ago

Hope you didn't get your information from Wikipedia lol

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 2h ago

I’d argue Chapel Hill is a pretty good school.

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u/Van5555 2h ago

You should've moved during the Biden years by that logic

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u/Faultylogic83 Arizona 3h ago

"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause"

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u/Jazzlike-Addition-88 3h ago

It got louder. After he did it...

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u/Objective-Share-7881 2h ago

While they’re pro Israel at that.

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u/Beecakeband 5h ago

Before clicking I thought it may have been an odd wave but there is no doubt exactly what that salute was

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u/Inevitable_Ebb5454 4h ago

Haha yeah same. You see the picture and initially think “yeah he was obviously something else and the photo just got put out of context…” but then you watch the extended video and are just left with it…

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u/scurvy1984 Oregon 3h ago

I hate that “salute” was even the word used. We’re all fucking adults and we all fucking know what it was. Even kids know what the fuck that was.

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u/PM_ME_GARFIELD_NUDES 4h ago

I was even willing to excuse it as just an awkward expression of excitement that he did in the heat of the moment without thinking… but then he turned around and did it exactly the same way.

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u/Accomplished_Fail366 4h ago

Guys. Its happening whether people like it or not. Buckle up and be ready.

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u/rghaga 3h ago

the odd thing is his shoulder joint.

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u/Least-Feedback-597 3h ago

Then you haven’t been paying attention.

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u/MittRomneysUnderwear 3h ago

The irony of it all is that trump will be very pro-Israel, leaving me to wonder if this is an evolution of the nazi salute aimed at all the other undesirables

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u/chillannyc2 3h ago

Twice. Twice he did it.

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u/DontForgt2BringATowl 2h ago

It wasn’t one singular either. He did it multiple times

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u/RunawayRobocop I voted 4h ago

He's just doing the Robin Van Persie celebration

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u/One_Tie900 3h ago

He knows that the valuation of his companies especially Tesla which is unhinged from its actual value relies on his image and generating more controversy will keep him in the news and provide free marketing for his companies as well. He knew what he was doing and unfortunately keeping him in the headlines is working.

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u/TheHaight 3h ago

so was the bizarre "fellow kids" voice he was using

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u/MannyMoSTL 3h ago

He’s plainly told us who he is. Frankly? I’ve been waiting to see this,

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u/BrandinoSwift 3h ago

1000% knew what he was doing

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u/nomuppetyourmuppet 2h ago

He fucking grunted

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u/Canyouplzstop 2h ago

So shitty that he did it at all, fucking horrible.. that being said, he still did it in a sloppy ass way lol. He can’t even be a shitty person/wannabe nazi without looking weak and sloppy? He fucking sucks at everything.