American billionaire and Trump confidant Elon Musk posted a six-word sentence on his social-media platform, X, that jolted Germany’s political landscape. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” he wrote, embracing the far-right populist Alternative for Germany party,

A gesture associated with the Nazis has a surprising history. But in Germany, there was little doubt about its meaning.

Munich's Deutsches Museum said a "prominent" position of an individual in an exhibition could be seen as "an uncritical tribute."

Musk then slapped his chest with his right hand, before flinging it diagonally upwards, palm face down. He turned around to audience members behind the podium, and repeated the gesture. “My heart goes out to you,

Musk has promoted antisemitic and white nationalist content online, and has endorsed a neo-Nazi party in Germany.

Billionaire's estranged daughter has used rival social media platforms to attack Trump's anti-transgender executive order, and her dad's salute.

The Roman salute is conditionally allowed in Italy and outright banned in Germany. German chancellor Olaf Scholz responded to Musk's gesture by saying, "We have the freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany," he said, "what we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme right positions."

A local network parted ways with its meteorologist after she condemned Elon Musk for a "Nazi salute" and said with expletives she would not associate with his supporters.

Elon Musk has been condemned as "a mixture of mad and right-wing extremist" by professor Jens-Christian Wagner, a historian who runs the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, the largest in Germany.