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Article in Common Dreams by Pete Tucker, 1/24/25

Headline:  “Why Won’t the US Corporate Media Call a Nazi Salute a Nazi Salute?”

Subhead:  “The mainstream press failed to accurately describe the hand gesture that Elon Musk made twice at Trump’s Inauguration Day rally, setting a troubling precedent for the second Trump era.”

“There’s something about the start of a Trump presidency that makes grown men do strange things, like heiling Hitler.

“Eight years ago, after President Donald Trump’s first election, white nationalist Richard Spencer couldn’t resist flashing a Nazi salute as he addressed a rally just blocks from the White House (PBS, 11/22)”

“This time around, a more prominent Trump supporter gave a Nazi salute in a bigger forum. “I never imagined we would see the day when what appears to be a Heil Hitler salute would be made behind the presidential seal,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) wrote on Twitter/X (1/20/25).”

“. . .The Times story was headlined, “Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture.”

“But speculation wasn’t needed. ‘Whoever on a political stage, making a political speech in front of a partly far-right audience, elongates his arm diagonally in the air both forcefully and repeatedly, is making a Hitler salute,’ wrote journalist Lenz Jacobsen. His story for the German newspaper Die Zeit (1/21/25) is headlined ‘A Hitler Salute Is a Hitler Salute Is a Hitler Salute.‘ ”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-musk-nazi-salute