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Elon Musk Thinks Now Is the Perfect Time for a Load of Nazi Jokes

Far from saying he may have been wrong, the MAGA billionaire is now hitting the gas on his salute.

Elon Musk has taken to X to make a slew of Nazi jokes, fresh from having to bat away suggestions that he did a fascist salute on President Donald Trump’s inauguration day.

With the world’s eyes on the MAGA boss’ post-ceremony rally Monday, Musk took to the stage and gave a brief speech where he thanked the crowd for their support, before beating his chest and throwing his arm out straight.

And after a collective thud of jaws on the floor across the U.S. and beyond, the tech billionaire repeated the gesture. He has since defended it as a my “heart goes out to you” gesture and railed against anyone who has tried to suggest otherwise. The MAGAverse has defended the gesture as being an accidental motion made by an awkward and excited man, definitely NOT a Nazi, Roman, or even remotely fascist salute.

Now, Musk’s deflection effort has mutated into the 54-year-old flat out making Nazi jokes on X. Whilst people on Eastern time were sitting down for breakfast, Musk took to X—as he often does—and decided to roll off five gags about the Nazi party and its senior figures, including the principal architect of the Holocaust.

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“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” came the first gag, a reference to Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, Rudolph Hess, followed by: “Some people will Goebbels anything down!”

Joseph Goebbels was the chief propagandist for the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945 and famously a very bad guy. The who’s-who of the murderous far-right party continued with convicted war criminal Hermann Göring.

“Stop Göring your enemies!” he said, before actually managing to wedge in a dig toward people who use gender pronouns, while cleverly mixing it with the name of Heinrich Himmler of the SS.

“His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!” he said, concluding his painfully cringe barrage of Nazi dad jokes with: “Bet you did nazi that coming.”

It comes as his own father, Errol Musk, was forced to defend him. Musk’s dad told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo he couldn’t “see anything wrong with” the gesture. “That’s absolute nonsense. Absolute rubbish. Rubbish. It’s a universal salute, or as you said, throwing his heart out, I suppose. Yeah, so it’s a universal thing for thousands of years. So that’s rubbish,” Errol Musk claimed.

His estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, was not so forgiving. She did not mention her billionaire dad by name but made clear who she was referring to in an explicit string of posts on Threads on Tuesday.

“I’m just gonna say let’s call a spade a f---ing spade,” she said. “Especially if there were two spades done in succession based on the reaction of the first spade.”

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