Conservatives are mocking Sen. Cory Booker for delivering an alleged "Nazi salute" to California Democrats, while quipping the New Jersey Democrat won't get the same scrutiny Elon Musk did when he raised his arm to MAGA supporters in January. "NEW: Democrat Senator Cory Booker appears to do a ‘Nazi’ salute in front of a large crowd of Democrats. I’m looking forward to the wall to wall coverage from the ‘honest’ and totally not biased media," Trending Politics co-owner Collin Rugg posted to X, accompanied by footage of the gesture.
"If Elon Musk is a Nazi for doing this gesture… Cory Booker is one too. Sorry, I don’t make the rules," X user Angela Belcamino posted.
Booker traveled to the Los Angeles area on Saturday, where he addressed the California Democratic Party's convention, calling on supporters to "stand up" to President Donald Trump and repeating a handful of messages he delivered during his marathon 25-hour speech on the Senate floor in March railing against Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency, and the Trump administration for its alleged attacks on "Americans' safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy."
"Real change does not come from Washington. It comes from communities. It comes from the streets. It comes from the people who’s standing up and have shown over and over again – against the powerful, against the elected, against the rich – that the power of the people is greater than the people in power," Booker said on Saturday to the California Democrats.
He capped off his roughly 15-minute speech with a gesture where he placed his right hand on his chest before raising it to the crowd.
Musk delivered a similar gesture in January on Trump's inauguration day, which yielded dozens of headlines from mainstream media outlets that Musk delivered a "Nazi-style salute" to Trump supporters. Liberals and critics frequently attacked Trump while he was on the campaign trail by calling him a Hitler-esque fascist, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, who compared Trump to the German dictator during a town hall in October.
Conservatives and others pounced on the footage of Booker, asking if media outlets would accuse the New Jersey Democrat of gesturing like a Nazi.
"Will Corey Booker be plastered all over msm with headlines claiming he’s a ‘Nazi’?" The Post Millennial's X account posted, accompanied by footage of the gesture.
"Here’s a list of all the news networks who have not covered Cory Booker’s salute: – NYTimes – CNN – Washington Post – MSNBC – NPR – USA Today – Reuters – Axios – ABC News Every single one of them wrote stories on Elon Musk’s ‘salute’… …do you get it yet?" former government scientist Matt van Swol posted to X.
Musk responded to van Swol: "Legacy media is one big psy op."
Cory Booker is a straight up NAZI! WOW," conservative X user Gunther Eagleman posted.
Other X posts included direct comparison between Musk's wave in January and Booker's gesture on Saturday.
00:00Put your hands in the air as we play Hey, Let's Compare.
00:07And Hey, Let's Compare, the press stays mute about a Democrat salute.
00:11I speak of New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker, look at him,
00:15who made a very peculiar gesture over the weekend while speaking to a crowd of Democrats in California.
00:21But where have we seen that before?
00:24Yeah, when Elon Musk did it back in January.
00:27When Elon did it, he was Hitler incarnate.
00:30That was a Nazi salute, and he didn't just do it one time.
00:34He did it twice.
00:35He should be condemned for those kinds of actions.
00:37So gross, disgusting, but more of what we can expect, I think, from Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
00:43That salute was evocative of things that we have seen through history.
00:47It's not something that you typically see at American political rallies.
00:50No, no, it was not something that you usually would see.
00:53By the second Sieg Heil, I think he kind of loses the benefit of the doubt.
00:58Nazis in Germany thought it was a Sieg Heil.
01:00That is what it looks like Elon Musk was doing, which added a nice blood-curdling chill to the day for many people today.
01:08Go ahead.
01:08What do you think of Elon Musk, perhaps the president's most visible advisor, doing two Heil Hitler salutes last night at the president's televised rally?
01:24No, Elon Musk did not do those salutes.
01:27When a Democrat like Cory Booker makes the exact same gesture, what are these people saying?
01:37Of course, to deflect from their obvious bias, the media decides not to cover Booker's gesture at all.
01:43Instead, cover the MAGA media's response to the gesture, meaning their story is not their hypocrisy, but the legitimate reaction to their hypocrisy.
01:57It's not their hypocrisy, but it's not their hypocrisy, but it's not their hypocrisy.
02:27It's not their hypocrisy, but it's not their hypocrisy.
