00:00It's 2025 and as of January 20th, Donald J. Trump is the 47th president of the United
00:07States.
00:08Speaking at a rally celebrating Mr. Trump being sworn in as president, billionaire Elon
00:14Musk, now the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, sparked worldwide debate after
00:21making gestures that seemed eerily close to a Nazi salute.
00:25According to the New York Times, the motion soon drew comparisons online to the salute
00:30popularized by Adolf Hitler, and others interpreted it as a Roman salute, which is also known
00:37as the fascist salute, and was later adopted by the Nazis.
00:42The Nazi variation of the gesture is illegal in some European countries, including Germany.
00:49The Independent reports giving the Nazi salute in Germany could result in a six-month prison
00:55sentence.
00:56The Nazi salute is also banned in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
01:00More so, there are restrictions on giving the Nazi salute in Switzerland and Sweden,
01:05where giving the gesture is classified as a hate crime.
01:10It remains unclear what exactly was behind Mr. Musk's gestures, but the issue has already
01:16succeeded in keeping people divided.
01:19While it's safe to say that most of the population agrees that the Nazi salute is a symbol of
01:25evil, the number of people who think the opposite is growing, and where it shall take
01:30the Western world, remains to be seen.
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