ICYMI: On Monday, Elon Musk invoked the names of two German Nazis in a tweet while simultaneously disparaging modern pronoun conventions — attempting, as he so often does, to make a joke. (I’m not repeating the text here — not because it’s profane, but mostly because it’s just not funny.)
For context, Musk was responding to a post about a Der Spiegel article that compared him to a media mogul who helped Hitler climb to power.
It was hardly Musk’s first, and certainly not his most offensive, statement involving the Third Reich or their White supremacist progeny. Just last month, Musk promoted Tucker Carlson’s widely condemned interview with a Nazi apologist who said the murder of Jews in concentration camps was “humane” and that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain” of World War II. Musk later deleted his X post that called the interview “very interesting” and “worth watching,” per the Independent.
Representatives for X and Tesla didn’t respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Musk rarely deletes his social media posts, no matter how inflammatory. Also not deleted: the one where he reposted the “interesting observation” that women are incapable of independent thought and that only “alpha males” should make policy decisions.
And while he once apologized for his post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory — the one that sparked an exodus of advertisers from X — he never deleted it, either.
^Elon wondering where all of Twitter’s ad buyers are going
