Several critics took to social media to point out how Ingraham was previously accused of using the same Nazi salute at the Republican National Convention in 2016.
One user on X, formerly known as Twitter, shared a clip of the Fox News host’s show, which features Musk’s gesture and wrote: “These fascist f—— always pull this s— in broad daylight and pretend they didn’t do it. Laura Ingraham got away with it last time, and now Elon Musk did it, and he’ll get away with it, too. It’s early days still in Trump’s neo-Nazi America and too many people are in denial.”
Another X user commented: “It’s a Nazi salute. Everybody knows it. Laura Ingraham knew it. Elon Musk knows it.”
A third person joked: “Remember when Elon Musk tried to hex America with a secret Nazi salute at the inauguration of 25? No, no, you’re thinking of Laura Ingraham in 16. No, that one was — haha, awkward, how much of our lives were spent battling such evil! It all just runs together.”