The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute,

X users believe Elon Musk did "the Hitler salute", also known as the "Nazi salute", in a huge inauguration blunder. The billionaire made the eerily similar gesture when he slapped the podium and raised his flat hand into the air.

Elon Musk appeared to make a fascist gesture during Donald Trump's inauguration, performing what looked almost exactly like a Nazi salute.