A county official in Pennsylvania has resigned after posting a video to TikTok emulating Elon Musk's salute from Trump's inaugural event.

Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith posted a now-deleted video in which she hit her chest three times and then extended her arm out in front of her, similar to Elon Musk's gesture last week.

Fox's Brian Kilmeade and Charly Arnolt served up a big heaping helping of whataboutism and false equivalences while lying about Musk's multiple Nazi salutes at Trump's inauguration last week.

Musk's response to the accusations has included the complaint that the "legacy media" is trying to cancel him.

An old image of U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reaching out to hug Senator Ed Markey has been taken out of context in posts saying it shows her giving a Nazi salute.

Fox News pundit Charly Arnolt stopped herself from doing Elon Musk's controversial salute live on air after claiming it was not a Nazi gesture and a "double standard"

Just days after Elon Musk was criticized for giving what looked like a Nazi salute following the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, the richest man in the world is being scrutinized once more. This time, Musk took to his X platform with a series of Nazi jokes.

People use woke ideology as an excuse to be an a–hole, and it’s really just people that are a–holes that are attaching themselves to things that make them feel righteous.”

“Elon Musk was criticised for his speech at a rally after the inauguration in which he appears to give the Nazi salute. But come on, Elon Musk is not a Nazi,” Che said of the man behind the much maligned Cybertruck. “The Nazis made nice cars,” quipped Che, referencing the origins of Volkswagen.

A Montgomery County township supervisor resigned from one county board after posting on social media what some say appears to be a Nazi salute.

Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G During a speech at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Argentina’s President Javier Milei accused the forum of promoting the “sinister agenda of wokeism”. Milei also came to Elon Musk's defence by calling his hand salute at Trump's inauguration "innocent" and blamed the "woke ideology" for comparing it to a Nazi salute.