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Elon Musk gave a speech to enthusiastic Donald Trump fans Monday, hours after the presidential inauguration ... and he made a gesture that harkened back to a dark time.

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00:00I know that the graphic down here says alleged Nazi salute.

00:05I'm sorry.

00:06It's so generous to put the word alleged.

00:08So very generous, because to me it is indisputable that what Elon Musk did is a Nazi salute.

00:15What is that?

00:16Now watch, a second time.

00:17What his intention is, is what we can debate.

00:20Like why he did it, what he actually believes.

00:23That's a Nazi salute.

00:25But that thing that he did is a Nazi salute.

00:28Come on.

00:30This is absurd that we're even defending or talking about this.

00:33However, there is a group that is defending it.

00:37Right.

00:38And it's not a Nazi group.

00:40The group that is defending it is the Anti-Defamation League.

00:43The group that promotes the ability of Jews to live freely without violence.

00:49But this was their response.

00:51It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.

00:56Not a Nazi salute.

00:58In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit

01:02of the doubt.

01:03Take a breath.

01:05Let's hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.

01:09I am stifled by this.

01:12I am so upset.

01:13Well, I know what it's about.

01:14Rightfully so.

01:15The ADL.

01:16You know what this is about.

01:17That look, Donald Trump is a big supporter of Israel.

01:20There is a lot of anti-Semitism out there.

01:22There are a lot of people in Congress that are not supporters of Israel.

01:26And the ADL wants to hitch its wagon to Donald Trump because he's supporting Israel.

01:31So he's supporting Israel in the Gaza dispute.

01:34And they will forgive anything around his orbit, in his orbit, that they have to in

01:40order to preserve the support of Donald Trump.

01:43I think that is exactly what Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks.

01:48Her response after she saw what the ADL said, she said, just to be clear, you are defending

01:53a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.

01:59People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information

02:03now.

02:04You work for them.

02:05Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.

02:07I got to say, she's got a point here.

02:10I'm really upset that the ADL did this because, look.

02:13Because your point is, they can say that they like Donald Trump for his support of Israel.

02:18They can say they love Donald Trump.

02:19But why not call out something when everyone can see it with their own eyes.

02:23Call it out for what it is.

02:24And by the way, before, and I know there are people who are going to say that Elon Musk

02:28is not a Nazi and that he doesn't really believe that.

02:32It almost doesn't matter.

02:33It's actually even worse.

02:34It's the symbolism.

02:35If you're doing it just to be, as a troll, as just to stoke discussion or debate on social

02:42media, screw you.

02:43That's terrible.

02:44That is awful.

02:45That's terrible.

02:46They're an awful thing to do.

02:47That's terrible.

02:48Well, guys, I think one of the most concerning aspects in all of this has been Elon's response

02:51to the backlash.

02:53Like, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say that it was not a Nazi salute.

02:57Well, everyone seems to think so.

02:59So you would think if you're in Elon's position, you would at least come out and say, hey,

03:03I know what you guys think, but that's not me at all.

03:06Instead, he said, frankly, they need better dirty tricks.

03:10The everyone is Hitler attack is so tired.

03:14Why is it so hard for him just to come out and say, hey, that's not what I meant to do

03:18at all.

03:19If you thought that was what I meant, I'm sorry.

03:21Yeah, I agree with you.

03:23It's like how many times do people roll out the that was a Hitler salute thing?

03:27I haven't heard a lot of it.

03:29I haven't seen anybody do it that way other than not since other other than hate groups

03:35in a long, long time.

03:37But look, whatever his intention was, that was wrong.

03:41And for the ADL to just blindly say, oh, we don't want to lose Donald Trump.

03:46We can't live this way where you have to be the friend of the friend on one hundred

03:52percent of the time or else you're the enemy.

03:54But here's the problem.

03:55If they if they call him out, what you're asking the ADL to do.

03:59And I agree with you completely.

04:01And this is what they should do.

04:03But what they won't do is say to Donald Trump, hey, get control of your buddy over here.

04:09Get control of him.

04:10They don't want to say that to him because they know that Donald Trump isn't going to

04:13do.

04:14Well, how about this?

04:15You don't have to bring Donald Trump's name in.

04:16What Elon Musk did was horrible.

04:18Hey, it's Whitney from Bryan, Arkansas, here.

04:21The inauguration was not the time and place to do something like that.

04:25Like you said, it could just be him trolling.

04:27I don't think that was the case.

04:29And I think the time and place was not it.

04:31And it was just classless.

04:33But it's God isn't talking about him.

04:35So.

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