Elon Musk don’t think twice about posting on Twitter. Neither when responding to users with messages with a clear tone of ridicule or through memes, although these can create controversy among their followers or even offend some of the people who read the tweet. The latter, in fact, is what has happened recently. The South African tycoon replied to a post with a Hitler meme who did nothing but offend his followers.
The post, which has since been deleted, was a reply to another tweet that reported how the Trudeau government would have ordered banks not to authorize movements in cryptographic wallets and freeze the bank accounts of those truckers or citizens involved in the protests related to the restrictions in Canada due to the pandemic. Elon Musk, in particular, shared a meme where the face of Adolf Hitler appeared with a message that said the following. “Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau, I was on a budget.”
The meme seems to do reference to the similarities that Elon Musk sees between the aberrations of Hitler and the measures that the Prime Minister of Canada is taking. These, let us remember, with the aim of preventing the spread of contagion among the citizens of the country. It is a clear and repeated show of support by the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX for the truckers who protest against these restrictions. Internet users, however, could not believe what they were seeing on the screen.
Elon Musk’s tweet did not like his followers at all
“Brother. Calm down. You’re trivializing the murder of millions of people for a cheap shot at a politician you don’t agree with,” one user commented in response to Musk’s post.
Until the Auschwitz museum official account answered to Elon Musk’s tweet. “Using the image of Adolf Hitler and thereby exploiting the tragedy of all the people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured and killed by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany created by him is sad and disturbing. It disrespects the memory of all the victims and hurts many people, he published The tycoon wasted no time in deleting the tweet and has not mentioned the subject again, beyond a recent publication that could refer to all the hate he is receiving for that publication and where he stresses that “the reasons to hate are remembered better than the reasons to love”.
It is not the first time that Elon Musk has made a controversial publication. In fact, the manager usually share tweets that create a lot of division of opinions. And not only among his followers. Some of the tycoon’s messages are also usually not liked by other businessmen or government figures. A clear example are those messages published in 2018 about the unions in Tesla, tweets where he allegedly threatened his employees and which were collected by the United States National Labor Relations Board with the aim of taking action against him.