Elon Musk is under fire after re-posting a shocking tweet claiming Hitler did not kill millions of people.
While we know that Elon Musk says his 'mind is a storm', there are continued questions about what's actually going on up there. The controversial owner of X hadn't been afraid to speak his mind even before he took over Twitter in October 2022, but since rebranding it, he's been allowed to let his so-called 'free speech' run free.
There's been a mass exodus of celebrities and members of the public from this 'toxic' environment, where anything now seems to go.
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As Elon Musk continues to post and repost his thoughts, he's accused of being chronically online. Even though the public opinion toward him looks like it's starting to impact his net worth (despite still being far and away the world's richest man), it doesn't look like he's going to stop making his feelings clear.
Just when it looked like some people were starting to forget the whole 'my heart goes out to you' debacle where Musk was accused of performing a Nazi salute, he's now posting about Hitler on X.
With stocks wavering and viral ad campaigns still referring to Musk as 'Hitler', one Tesla building in Germany was even hijacked with the slogan, "Heil Tesla." If you want to distance yourself from all of the comparisons, it's probably best not to share posts that try to paint the Führer in a good light.
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While not Musk's own words, he's once again gone viral for sharing a post that says Soviet revolutionary Joseph Stalin, former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong, and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler didn't murder millions of people. The post instead says, "Their public sector workers did."
Considering Hitler was in power during the Holocaust, where some six million Jewish people were murdered and another five million non-Jewish people lost their lives, the backlash to Musk resharing these musings has been immediate.
Responding to the post, the President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has released a statement condemning its content. Posted on the official site, the statement from AFSCME President Lee Saunders refers to a 'heinous and incendiary tweet' and says: "America’s public service workers – our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians – chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich.
"They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers. Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day.
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“That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare."
This latest post once again sees the world's richest man making light of Hitler's atrocities, and in the aftermath of the inauguration celebration faux pas with his 'gesture', he claimed the media was unfairly trying to portray him as Hitler. Back then, Musk went on to mock the situation with puns like, "Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations," "Some people will Goebbels anything down," and "Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!"
Why Musk shared this post is unclear, although it comes at a time when he's trying to slash federal spending and show public sector workers the door as part of his Department of Government Efficiency cuts.