Journalist does everything possible to avoid calling this what it clearly is


X CEO and X-communicated father Elon Musk has come under fire after appearing to do a Nazi style salute at Trump’s inauguration, with the criticism stemming from people seeing what he did and knowing what the salute looks like.

The media, presented with the first time that one of these pics wasn’t just an out of context image of political figure waving, have urged everyone to give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he didn’t do what we all saw him choose to do, twice.

“It was an awkward gesture,” wrote one person who went to studied journalism at uni but never seems to use the degree when reporting on, “it was a bit strange but we shouldn’t judge. Maybe he was trying to karate chop a fly?”

“Maybe it was a Roman salute and he just did it wrong? Maybe he thought that was the dance moves to YMCA? Who is to say what really happened?”

“You need to look at this in the context of what was happening. He was there as part of a government announcing plans to crack down on migrants and crack down on LGBTQ+ rights. This is a very different thing.”

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