ADL turns on Elon Musk after sparking backlash for defending his controversial inauguration salute

The Anti Defamation League has turned on Elon Musk after just days after defending the Tesla billionaire over his controversial inauguration salute.

Initially, the ADL, an organization that works to combat antisemitism, gave Musk the benefit of the doubt regarding an ‘awkward’ hand gesture he made twice after Donald Trump’s inauguration. Some have likened this gesture to a Nazi salute.

However, after the ADL confirmed that the action was ‘not a Nazi salute’ and requested the public to show Musk ‘some grace’ for his peculiar display in a ‘moment of enthusiasm’, the DOGE leader stirred up new controversy by making a series of Nazi-themed puns.

‘Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!’ Musk posted.

‘Bet you did nazi that coming,’ he added in a final pun.

His post made light of the names of Adolf Hitler’s Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess; Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels; Reichstag President Hermann Göring; and Schutzstaffel (SS) Commander Heinrich Himmler. 

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has now condemned the off-color remarks.

‘We’ve said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,’ he wrote.

The Anti Defamation League has turned on Elon Musk after previously defending his controversial inauguration salute

The Anti Defamation League has turned on Elon Musk after previously defending his controversial inauguration salute

He used the names to issue a series of puns in a post to X on Thursday, concluding: 'Bet you did nazi that coming'

He used the names to issue a series of puns in a post to X on Thursday, concluding: ‘Bet you did nazi that coming’

‘@elonmusk, the Holocaust is not a joke.’

The official ADL X account also addressed the controversy, although without addressing Musk personally.

‘Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah.’ 

First Buddy Musk has sparked concern about his close relationship with President Trump as he leads the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

After Musk’s awkward gesture, where he put his hand over his heart, then shot his hand out to wave to the crowd in Capital One Arena, liberals went into complete meltdown.

But conservatives have rushed to his defense, sharing photos of others, including Democrats, caught delivering similar motions.  

Joe Rogan has been one of his most outspoken defenders, calling out people for playing a ‘bullsh** game’ of accusing ‘everyone’ of being a Nazi.

Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in, writing in an X post on Thursday that Musk ‘is being falsely smeared.’

‘Elon is a great friend of Israel,’ Netanyahu added of the South African native. ‘He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.’

The ADL said: 'Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah'

The ADL said: ‘Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah’

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has now condemned the off-color remarks

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has now condemned the off-color remarks

'We've said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,' he wrote

‘We’ve said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,’ he wrote

‘He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state,’ the PM concluded.

Musk’s father also defended the gesture during an interview with NewsNation host Chris Como.

Asked Wednesday night about the salute, Errol Musk said: ‘It’s absolute nonsense, it’s absolute rubbish. Rubbish.’

‘It’s a universal salute, or, as you said, you know, throwing his heart out, I suppose, yes, that’s a universal thing for thousands of years. So that’s rubbish. That’s a rubbish,’ he repeated.

The ADL were sharply criticized for defending Musk, labeled as ‘cowards’ by outspoken critics who were hurt by the billionaire’s actions.

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