Employees blasted DOGE hatchet guy Elon Musk Thursday after he reposted a surprising message on X stating that “Hitler didn’t murder countless individuals. Public sector workers did.”
Lee Saunders, union president of the American Federation of State, County and Local Workers of the AFL-CIO, fired off a furious action stating: “America’s civil service employees– our nurses, instructors, firemens, curators– picked making our neighborhoods safe, healthy and strong over getting abundant. They are not, as the world’s wealthiest guy suggests, genocidal killers.”
He included: “Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no concept what genuine individuals go through every day. That’s why he’s so ready to take a chainsaw to individuals’s tasks, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare.”
It was just the most recent of Musk’s troubling circumstances of sidling as much as Hitler as he appeared to excuse the actions of the designer of the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews and others to tease public workers, whose tasks he has actually cut by the thousands because Donald Trump took workplace.
Paradoxically, he retweeted the Hitler post simply days after the Trump administration revealed it was keeping some $4 million in grants and agreements from Columbia University for stopping working to squelch pro-Gaza demonstrations at the expenditure of Jewish trainees, showing the presentations were antisemitic.
Some 150 of pro-Palestinian protesters, much of them Jewish, put into Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan Thursday to support previous Columbia Palestinian trainee Mahmoud Kahil, who was detained for for arranging a school presentation in defense of Gaza.
” Not in our name,” checked out the red tee shirts used by the protesters, who screamed “Battle Nazis, not trainees.” Cops detained some 100 of the protesters. Khalil and other trainee on Thursday took legal action against Columbia to obstruct congressional access to trainee records as the university threatened to expel or suspend school protesters.
Musk, who was born and raised in apartheid South Africa, activated an early outcry when he infamously flashed what seemed a Nazi salute at an occasion marking the Inauguration in January.
He later on buffooned outrage over the gesture with a series of unfunny Nazi “puns” including Hitler’s leading assistants, consisting of: “Do not state Hess to Nazi allegations!” and “Some individuals will Goebbels anything down!” He likewise composed: “Stop Gőring your opponents! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! ”
Musk concluded: “Wager you did nazi that coming,” with a laughing-to-tears emoji.
The head of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League ripped Musk’s Nazi “jokes,” keeping in mind that the Holocaust was a “singularly wicked occasion, and it is unsuitable and offending to minimize it.”
Public employees were barely the only Americans surprised by Musk’s repost.