Elon Musk looks like Trudeau to Hitler and raises a whirlwind .. and deletes the tweet
Elon Musk, one of the world's richest people, does not stop stirring controversy, with his sometimes stormy tweets.
And in the new storms that it usually raises, the Tesla company chief wrote on its Twitter account yesterday, a tweet in which he compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the Nazi German leader, Adolf Hitler.
In response to a comment posted by cryptocurrency CoinDesk about Trudeau's emergency orders, which are meant to cut money off protesters who have closed border crossings and camped out in the Canadian capital in protest against the coronavirus measures, the 50-year-old tweeted a picture of Hitler hanging above it, "Stop comparing me to me." Justin Trudeau, at least I have a budget!
To raise a whirlwind of criticism that did not subside, until he returned and deleted it, apparently.
A Twitter spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company had never suspended or blocked the tweet.
Meanwhile, the American Jewish Committee condemned Musk's insinuations, asking him to apologize and stop this behavior, which it described as unacceptable.
She also indicated in a statement posted on her Twitter account that Elon "may think that publishing a satirical picture of the genocidal dictator is an appropriate way to criticize policies he does not agree with, but this is unacceptable."
In addition, other American associations and activists on the communication sites condemned the tweet, which they considered "awful."
It's not the first time that an American billionaire has hired Hitler. Last January, he posted a picture that looked like a book cover with an illustration of Hitler and the caption, "Everyone I don't like is Hitler... A Child's Guide to Online Political Debate!"
Also, in 2018, Musk posted on Twitter a scene from the movie "The Fall" that depicted Hitler as an angry speech, but the scene changed with the Tesla president, where the translation showed the speech as if the Nazi leader was talking about Tesla.
"It turns out that even Hitler was short selling Tesla shares!" he wrote.
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