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I think it’s necessary to have a backbone,
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof told CNN’s Richard Quest at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Dear President Trump, listen very carefully,
Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want. More agents in the communities, more people arrested, collateral arrests,
Trump border czar Tom Homan told Fox News No ‘process of national reconciliation’ can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity,
Judge Beryl Howell wrote on Wednesday People get it, they want to see these people released,
Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ancient cultures that is attested in surviving art and literature had a significantly different function and is never identical with the modern straight-arm salute,
Winkler wrote in his book, The Roman Salute ...the salute as a unifier — and as a path to punish those who don't conform by immediately raising their arms — was present before Hitler came to power,
There is no question among white supremacists that Musk was making a Nazi salute,
Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told AFP If an eager audience interprets this gesture as a meaningful acknowledgment, we are in dangerous territory,
Fountain wrote on Bluesky And to say so is — the American people are smart. They see through it. They support Elon Musk,
Does it concern you that those elements of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist elements in the United States believe that what they saw last night was a neo-Nazi salute?”
My heart goes out to you.”
He made the gesture twice, saying I simply don’t believe that if a member of the Squad made the same gesture last night that there wouldn’t be commentary from you and others,
Murphy replied, referencing the group of progressive representatives in the House What do think of Elon Musk, perhaps the president’s most visible adviser, doing two Heil Hitler salutes last night at the president’s televised rally?”
Holy crap ... Did @elonmusk just Heil Hitler at the Trump inauguration rally in Washington D.C. ... This is incredible.”
Evan Kilgore, a self-described political commentator, wrote on X The Jews are already seething,
Kilgore wrote in another post No. Elon Musk did not do those salutes,
The past is never dead,
William Faulkner famously wrote This machine kills fascists.”
After all, it came from the mind of a man who railed against injustice and famously wrote upon his guitar National unity is now returning to America and confidence and pride is soaring like never before.”
When Trump summoned so much of the American past
