Elon Musk Hit With Backlash For Tweet Comparing Justin Trudeau To Hitler Amid Trucker Protest

Imagine any other CEO of a public company tweeting this and everyone shrugging it off.pic.twitter.com/xJIQUWFT7a

— Sleeping Giants (@Sleeping Giants) 1645113224

Elon Musk declaring admiration for Hitler's "budget"\nwhich earmarked many millions of dollars to pursue & execute the "Final Solution" = Elon Musk either profoundly ignorant or profoundly fascist though likely both. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1494216634822766594\u00a0\u2026

— Joyce Carol Oates (@Joyce Carol Oates) 1645122593

.@ElonMusk has exercised extremely poor judgment by invoking Hitler to make a point on social media.\n\nComparing @CanadianPM Justin Trudeau to a genocidal dictator who murdered millions is not an appropriate way to criticize policies.\n\nHe must apologize immediately. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1494216634822766594\u00a0\u2026

— American Jewish Committee (@American Jewish Committee) 1645109605

The use of Nazi imagery and symbols in this debate needs to end. Canada is not Nazi Germany. Nobody here can fairly be compared to Jews in the Holocaust. We are a Democratic nation governed by a Charter of Rights. To the small minority that is doing this please please stop now. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1494216634822766594\u00a0\u2026

— Anthony Housefather (@Anthony Housefather) 1645120612

To see this face staring back at us, with a message like this, is absolutely beyond the pale of any civilized communication. I think of the millions dead. I think of a world destroyed. I shake with anger. The pit of my stomach is sick. I am deeply saddened. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1494216634822766594\u00a0\u2026

— Dan Rather (@Dan Rather) 1645121481

Growing up, it was ingrained in me that American Jews simply do not buy Volkswagen cars because of the company\u2019s ties to the Third Reich. Here, you have one of the leading electric car manufacturers casually comparing a world leader to Hitler, an act of minimizing that atrocity https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1494216634822766594\u00a0\u2026

— Sam Stein (@Sam Stein) 1645120925

Elon Musk deleted a tweet comparing Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler over Trudeau\u2019s opposition to the trucker protest in Canada. I wish I could find the words to capture how disgusting this is.pic.twitter.com/YLRc5wYsgR

— Frederick Joseph (@Frederick Joseph) 1645125552

Adolf Hitler is responsible for the murder of six million Jewish people, as well as millions of Roma, homosexuals, and people identifying with other minority groups.\n\nMusk\u2019s tweet is disgusting and indefensible.pic.twitter.com/gN0BgaQ11M

— Pabst Street Capital Management (@Pabst Street Capital Management) 1645090375

Elon and also Elonpic.twitter.com/J3JTMCJMPm

— Yaya (@Yaya) 1645140514

Elon Musk using Hitler memes. I'm not going to grace it with a quote-tweet.\n\nDespicable.

— Peter Daou (@Peter Daou) 1645122604

The people casually overlooking Elon Musk comparing Trudeau to Hitler, are the same people who casually overlooked the Confederate flags and swastikas in Ottawa.

— Ahmed Ali (@Ahmed Ali) 1645122338