Elon Musk's daughter says father's rally gesture was 'definitely a Nazi salute' -- The Guardian

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/elon-musk-daughter-vivian-jenna-wilson-salute

Vivian Jenna Wilson tells Teen Vogue she feels obliged to take stand for trans rights as Trump attacks community

Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s eldest child, has spoken out publicly about her father, saying that Musk “definitely [did] a Nazi salute” at two rallies in January and that he is part of a White House that’s “cartoonishly evil”.

In a new interview with Teen Vogue, her second interview with the media since she publicly denounced her father last year, Wilson, 20, said that the things her father has been doing in the federal government were “fucking cringe”.

“The Nazi salute shit was insane. Honey, we’re going to call a fig a fig, and we’re going to call a Nazi salute what it was,” Wilson said. “That shit was definitely a Nazi salute.”

Wilson entered the public eye last year after Musk spoke about her in a podcast, saying that he had been “tricked” into signing documents so that Wilson, who was 16 at the time, could receive gender-affirming medical treatment.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[LaRaven]

2. Good for her to speak out!👏🏽

[malaise]

3. Duh!

Rec

[hlthe2b]

4. I feel for her. I hope she has support of her own. I'm not sure Elon's brother Kimbal (her uncle) is so extreme

so perhaps he has some relationship with her.

He's lived in Boulder, CO for years as an investor in The Kitchen restaurants in Chicago, Austin, Denver, and Boulder. My understanding (don't know him) is that he's considered to be a pretty decent guy and is pretty invested in sustainable food and farming. I also think he divested any shares he had in Tesla (recently?)

I don't know the history in detail, but Elon is older and Kimbal has spoken to some bullying issues Elon went through growing up and his Asperger syndrome (that might have been a targeting issue). I suppose if I did not detest Elon Musk so much, I might be interested in reading about him. There are two biographies out from some decent writers, but...

[erronis]

5. Thanks for some background. Families are "interesting. Witness RFKJr and Gosar, etc.

https://time.com/5403883/congressman-gosar-siblings-political-ad/

[Trust_Reality]

6. Children are usually experts on their patents. They absolutely are experts on abusive parents.

It is a matter of survival.

[erronis]

8. So well said. Thanks!

[Submariner]

7. It's okay to do that now

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The PM of Israel, of all people, blew up decades of my personal belief that the nazi salute was offensive to Jews, and stated it's okay if you're republican Elon.

He was just being an that excited guy at a U.S. president inauguration that gives us a lot of money, so what's a little colossal sig heil insult between friends.

[erronis]

9. "It was just a twitch", says Dr. Strangelove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#Cast

The wheelchair-using Strangelove furthers a Kubrick trope of the menacing, seated antagonist, first depicted in Lolita through the character Dr. Zaempf.[24] Strangelove's accent was influenced by that of Austrian-American photographer Weegee, who worked for Kubrick as a special photographic effects consultant.[16] Strangelove's appearance echoes the mad scientist archetype as seen in the character Rotwang in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927). Sellers's Strangelove takes from Rotwang the single black gloved hand (which, in Rotwang's case, is mechanical because of a lab accident), the wild hair, and, most importantly, his ability to avoid being controlled by political power.[25] According to Alexander Walker, Sellers improvised Dr. Strangelove's lapse into the Nazi salute, borrowing one of Kubrick's black leather gloves for the uncontrollable hand that makes the gesture. Dr. Strangelove apparently has alien hand syndrome. Kubrick wore the gloves on the set to avoid being burned when handling hot lights, and Sellers, recognizing the potential connection to Lang's work, found them to be menacing.[16]

[CentralMass]

21. ...

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[central scrutinizer]

10. Rumor has it

That Musk is going to keep fathering kids until one of them likes him.

[erronis]

12. Keep on humpin....

Remember, money can't buy you love.

[mr715]

13. Pumping

They are from IVF

[no_hypocrisy]

11. She's the new Claudia Conway!

[BonnieJW]

19. Whatever happened to her

[Javaman]

14. The "genius" was "tricked". Cool story bro

🙄

[Evolve Dammit]

15. As obvious as Ingraham's at RNC Cleveland convention in 2015. They are Nazis.

[BOSSHOG]

16. This sucker and loser says it was a Nazi Salute

Given by a Nazi to seal the deal with trump.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, like most Patriots would believe

freaking Putin nazis that it WASN'T!

[Joinfortmill]

18. She should know.

[AllaN01Bear]

20. kick