It doesn't matter what Musk really meant with this salute. Robotaxis are exclusively a product for large urban areas, and that population largely didn't like it at all.

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

SNL's Weekend Update co-hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost had a lot of material to play with after Donald Trump's first week back in the Oval Office.

Musk's comments came two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day and right after he was criticized for making what many viewers interpreted as a Nazi salute during an inauguration speech.

A Republican official in Pennsylvania has been forced to resign after posting her own version of Elon Musk’s highly evocative salute from Donald Trump’s inauguration. Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith posted a TikTok video in which she hit her chest three times and extended her arm out in front of her,

The board said in a statement that it intends to accept Smith’s resignation at its next meeting, adding that it “cannot and will not tolerate such conduct.”

Thousands protested against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which the Tesla CEO addressed on Saturday.

A local elected official in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has resigned after coming under fire for a social media post.

An elected official in Pennsylvania resigned from her post after she mimicked Elon Musk ’s straight-arm gesture that the head of a prominent U.S. Jewish civil rights called a “Nazi salute.” Republican Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith in Montgomery County reportedly “hit her chest three times and then extended her arm out in front of her” in a now-deleted TikTok video,