Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes issues furious statement on 'Nazi salute' at Trump inauguration

Grimes has taken to societal media to stock her views aft her ex-partner Elon Musk appeared to marque a Nazi salute during pal Donald Trump's inauguration

Elon Musk's ex-partner Grimes has slammed his Nazi salute at Donald Trump's inauguration.

The SpaceX CEO, 53, made gestures arsenic helium appeared astatine Washington DC's Capital One Arena aft his pal, scandal-hit Trump had been sworn successful arsenic president for the 2nd time. Addressing the packed arena, the Tesla CEO said: "Elections travel and go, immoderate are important and immoderate are not, but this 1 truly mattered and I conscionable privation to accidental convey you for making it happen."

Seconds aft concluding his speech, the X proprietor near galore wholly speechless arsenic helium put his manus connected his chest earlier stretching his limb retired with an unfastened hand. He made this motion doubly and galore claimed that the had performed a fascist salute – precise akin to those utilized by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.

Users connected X, which Musk purchased from Twitter adjacent questioned his gesture. One wrote: "Did Elon Musk conscionable bash a Hitler salute." Another added: "holy s**t, elon musk conscionable did the nazi salute connected tv... astatine the president's inauguration..." One much idiosyncratic added: "Elon Musk casually doing a Hitler salute successful beforehand of millions. Right." Others person suggested helium was simply gesturing that his "heart goes out" to the crowd.

Now, Canadian instrumentalist Grimes, who shares son, X Æ A-Xii, a girl and different lad with Musk has taken to X to stock her views connected the incident. When told by a instrumentality it would payment her to "clarify her stance," she responded: "I'm blessed to denounce Nazi-ism - and the acold alt right. Would that assistance wide things up? I've conscionable gotten retired of meal and person to drawback a flight, and americium inactive debating however to attack things diplomatically due to the fact that I consciousness successful implicit my head.

"But if there's interest astir that, I americium blessed to acceptable the grounds strait successful a meaningful way. If I don't respond for different 5 hrs it's cus there's nary wifi connected my flight." She besides released a lengthy effect to fans and stated that she had learnt of the contention connected societal media and wouldn't beryllium making a rash connection fixed Musk's actions.

"I volition probe the authorities of affairs time but until I bash I'm not going to accidental thing that volition make an planetary scandal," she said, earlier adding: "It's absurd that idiosyncratic tin beryllium this cancelled for thing their ex did earlier they adjacent heard it happened. I americium not him. I volition not marque a connection each clip helium does something. I tin lone nonstop emotion backmost into a world that is hurting."

Hours aft the accusations emerged, an relationship called 'The Rabbit Hole' re-shared a tweet Musk had written up of the US election, which read: "In the past I voted Democrat, due to the fact that they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they person go the enactment of part & hate, truthful I tin nary longer enactment them and volition ballot Republican. Now, ticker their soiled tricks run against maine unfold ... " The Rabbit Hole wrote that the "salute hoax" was conscionable "another portion of the 'dirty tricks campaign'" Musk had antecedently mentioned.

And Musk retweeted the post, issuing a effect to the accusation that helium did a Nazi salute, writing: "Frankly, they request amended soiled tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' onslaught is sooo tired." Musk shared a video of his code connected his X relationship - but the arguable infinitesimal was replaced by a assemblage shot.

Just days earlier, Musk hosted an online interrogation with Alice Weidel, the person of AfD, Germany's far-right party. During the exchange, Weidel made the repeatedly debunked the assertion that Hitler wasn't far-right, but a communist oregon socialist - to which Musk agreed.

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