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Black America Web
a day ago
- General
- Black America Web
Cory Booker Responds To Ridiculous MAGA Republicans Accusations of Doing A 'Nazi Salute'
Source: Getty Images / Cory Booker / Elon Musk Cory Booker is shutting down claims he was out here throwing up a Nazi salute. MAGA Republicans and Elon Musk are losing their sh*t and doing their best to compare a moment where Cory Booker put his hand on his heart and waved goodbye to the crowd at the Democratic National Convention in California to when Musk clearly did a Nazi salute. Through a spokesperson, Booker shut down those ridiculous claims. 'Cory Booker was obviously just waving to the crowd. Anyone who claims his wave is the same as Elon Musk's gesture is operating in bad faith,' Maya Krishna-Rogers, spokesperson for Booker, said to Newsweek in a statement sent via email on Sunday. 'The differences between the two are obvious to anyone without an agenda.' Musk also doubled down on his acceptance of th use of the word 'retard' as an insult. 🤨 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2025 MAGA Republicans going hard trying to make something out of nothing about Cory Booker waving goodbye to the crowd, comes after Musk and Steve Bannon both were both accused doing nazi salutes during events. Musk was accused of doing a Nazi salute during Trump rally during his second inauguration following his unfortunate election win. Elon Musk has gone full mask off Nazi. He is actively promoting Nazism. Tesla is now a hate symbol. — James Jansson (@jamesjansson) January 20, 2025 Still despite Booker's statement and the video evidence, you can't tell these MAGA fools a damn thing as continue to take photos of other elected officials clearly waving bye, and using them as evidence of them doing Nazi salutes in order to vindicate the alleged ketamine abuser Elon Musk. 🤨 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2025 SMH. You can see more stupid reactions in the gallery below. Cory Booker Responds To Ridiculous MAGA Republicans Accusations of Doing A 'Nazi Salute' was originally published on Here's a list of all the news networks who have not covered Cory Booker's salute:- NYTimes- CNN- Washington Post- MSNBC- NPR- USA Today- Reuters- Axios- ABC NewsEvery single one of them wrote stories on Elon Musk's salute. do you get it yet? — kekius tees (@kekmaximusk) June 1, 2025 I'm literally shaking right now. Cory Booker is literally Hitler. I can't wait for fake news to cover this as extensively as they did Elon when gave his heart out to everyone! — Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) May 31, 2025 Hello, @NewsHour — will you be making a post comparing Cory Booker's apparent 'fascist salute' to the 'Sieg Heil?"Your post about Elon Musk making a very similar gesture amassed over 36M views. Since you assure US taxpayers that PBS is a non-partisan organization, and all. — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 1, 2025 It's most amusing to watch all the people who branded @elonmusk a Nazi now tying themselves in tortured knots trying to explain why Cory Booker isn't… for doing the EXACT SAME THING. Of course, neither is.. but the hypocrisy stinks. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 1, 2025 Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
Newsweek
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Newsweek
Cory Booker Responds to 'Nazi Salute' Accusation
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A spokesperson for Cory Booker told Newsweek Sunday that the New Jersey Senator was simply waving to the crowd after MAGA supporters claimed Booker had made a Nazi salute. "Cory Booker was obviously just waving to the crowd. Anyone who claims his wave is the same as Elon Musk's gesture is operating in bad faith," Maya Krishna-Rogers, spokesperson for Booker, told Newsweek in an emailed statement Sunday. "The differences between the two are obvious to anyone without an agenda." The statement comes after billionaire Elon Musk accused Booker of making a 'Nazi Salute' during a speech Saturday. Newsweek reached out to Musk for comment by email Saturday during non-working hours. Musk did post and repost several images and video of Booker on his social media Sunday, accusing him of doing the salute. Why It Matters The accusation from MAGA supporters against Booker follows a series of incidents involving Musk and Bannon in which they were accused of making the salute during their appearances. Musk was accused in January of making the controversial gesture during a rally on Trump's second inauguration day, and he made a series of statements joking about Nazis on social media platform X, which he owns. "Don't say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would've been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming 😂," Musk said in one such post. What To Know As Newsweek previously reported, video shows Booker speaking at the Democratic convention Saturday in California. As he finished his speech, Booker puts his hand over his heart before extending his hand, fingers open, towards the crowd and returning both his hands to his heart. The gesture is similar to the ones made by Musk and Bannon but not made as forcefully, the video shows. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democrats policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democrats policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images Bannon was also accused of making the salute during a speech in February, which led to a political fallout that saw him drop out of the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, Newsweek previously reported. Following Musk's and Bannon's gestures, some defended the movements, calling them a 'Roman Salute' although it has not been proven that it was a widely practiced gesture. Earlier this year, the New Jersey Senator made history by speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours and five minutes. The speech was largely critical of President Donald Trump's policies on immigration, DEI, and spending cuts. What People Are Saying Angela Belcamino, host of "Last Week on X", posted on X: "If Elon Musk is a Nazi for doing this gesture... Cory Booker is one too. Sorry, I don't make the rules." Collin Rugg, co-owner of conservative news site Trending Politics, posted on X Saturday: "Democrat Senator Cory Booker appears to do a "Nazi" salute in front of a large crowd of Democrats. I'm looking forward to the wall to wall coverage from the "honest" and totally not biased media." What Happens Next It is unclear when Booker will speak next or if he will issue further statements on the accusations made by MAGA. A schedule for the senator is not available on his website. The Democratic Convention in Anaheim continues Sunday with an award ceremony, committee reports, and adoption of resolutions listed on the agenda.
Fashion United
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion United
New documentary explores the life and legacy of Karl Lagerfeld
Paris (dpa) - If anyone understands the craft - or rather, the art - of documentary filmmaking and celebrity portraits, it's Gero von Boehm. In a small but sophisticated film, the 71 year old now gets to the bottom of the man, myth and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019). 'karl - the man behind the mask' (60 minutes) was broadcast on 3sat at 8.15pm GMT on Saturday, May 24, and is also available in the media library. The filmmaker secured a number of prominent voices for the documentary, including US 'Vogue' editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, model and muse Nadja Auermann, actor and 'becoming karl lagerfeld' actor Daniel Brühl, designer colleague Wolfgang Joop, and F.A.Z. journalist and biographer Alfons Kaiser ('karl lagerfeld - a german in paris'). 'Karl was like my magic fairy dust and my mentor,' said Claudia Schiffer, who was his favourite model for years. 'He transformed me from the shy German girl into the supermodel.' End of life Sébastian Jondeau, his closest confidant in his final years, provided insight into the hours before Lagerfeld's death in February 2019. He also revealed that something very specific was supposed to happen to the ashes at the designer's request, and why there is neither a gravestone nor a memorial. Many small stories about his early years in Paris paint an exciting picture of the man who almost perfectly understood how to stage himself, talking a lot but saying little (at least nothing private). Lagerfeld claimed that he did not belong to any generation or milieu and that he fitted in everywhere. Glamour There are anecdotes from his childhood friend Peter Bermbach, such as how Karl Lagerfeld, as a young German in Paris in the 50s, was said to have strutted around the swimming pool in tight swimming trunks, or how he liked to park his Mercedes convertible in front of the 'café de flore' or the 'deux magots' in the quartier saint-germain-des-prés in order to be seen. At a fashion competition in the mid-50s, he won first prize for a coat design, but the more important award for the best dress went to the then 18 year old Yves Saint Laurent, who remained a kind of rival in the decades that followed. Much later, Lagerfeld was the first big name from the world of haute couture to collaborate with a fast fashion brand like H&M. Origin The documentary also speculates and analyses, but with good reason. Lagerfeld was probably ashamed of his year of birth, 1933, which was associated with the nazi seizure of power, and which he liked to conceal or change. He is also said to have made up stories as a young man about being descended from a Swedish baron. The fact that his entrepreneurial parents were both members of the nsdap did not fit in well with the CV of a man of the world who wanted to make an international breakthrough and, above all, be accepted in his adopted home of France. Love His only great love, the dandy Jacques de Bascher, died of aids in 1989 at the age of just 38. Caroline Lebar, Karl's head of communications, revealed that Lagerfeld had to confront the hated themes of illness and decay at that time, that he spent the last days with Bascher and then immediately continued to work in a highly disciplined manner, for example at fittings. The documentary also has original quotes on this dark chapter: of course he took care of his friend at the time, he wasn't ice-cold, said Lagerfeld. 'The better you live with yourself, the better you can take care of others.' Those close to him say that Lagerfeld gained weight in the years that followed, probably out of grief and sorrow. Icon Around the turn of the millennium, Lagerfeld reinvented himself again. He changed his appearance, lost 42 kilograms in 13 months with a radical diet, also to fit into the narrowly cut clothes of designer Hedi Slimane. Lagerfeld increasingly turned himself into his own brand - and finally became the global star that many young people can still remember today. Finally, he was struck by prostate cancer. Lagerfeld almost died as early as 2015, but the Hamburg native ignored the disease for as long as he could. Work, work, work - that was his life. He did not want to accept death. 'I don't want to be seen when I'm dead either, I think it's terrible - cloth over it and away. In the bin. Done. Over.'(DPA) This article was translated to English using an AI tool. FashionUnited uses AI language tools to speed up translating (news) articles and proofread the translations to improve the end result. This saves our human journalists time they can spend doing research and writing original articles. Articles translated with the help of AI are checked and edited by a human desk editor prior to going online. If you have questions or comments about this process email us at info@
NDTV
04-05-2025
- Automotive
- NDTV
Elon Musk's "Button To Kill" Reply Amid Renewed Backlash Over Nazi Salute
Elon Musk, facing fresh backlash over allegations of promoting white supremacist signals, has accused his critics of orchestrating a "relentless propaganda campaign" against him. "If they could press a button and kill me in reality, they would press that button immediately," Musk, who faced backlash for the Nazi-salute earlier this year, said in an interview with Fox News. "But since I'm a little difficult to kill, they're doing character assassination instead. They really are trying on every angle to get me," he said. He did not name specific individuals or groups that were out to "kill" him, but vaguely blamed "people who still believe the legacy news." The criticism comes from the Tesla CEO's controversial gesture at a Donald Trump rally in January, where he was seen raising his right arm in what many interpreted as a "Roman salute", a move historically associated with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party. Despite denying sympathies with Nazi ideology, Musk has attracted criticism for a series of posts on X that include wordplay referencing infamous Nazi figures. In a January post, Musk wrote: "Don't say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Goring your enemies! His pronouns would've been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming." The backlash intensified further after his estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, publicly condemned the gesture. Speaking to Teen Vogue, the 20-year-old described the moment as "insane." "The Nazi salute s**t was insane. Honey, we're going to call a fig a fig, and we're going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That s***t was definitely a Nazi salute. The crowd is equally to blame, and I feel like people are not talking about that. That crowd should be denounced," she said. In a previous appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Elon Musk addressed the controversy surrounding the gesture. Musk defended himself by saying, "I hope people realise I'm not a Nazi," explaining that the gesture was made in a positive spirit and not intended to promote fascist ideology. He argued that true Nazism is about war and genocide, not gestures or fashion.
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Elon Musk Shares Post Saying Hitler 'Didn't Murder Millions Of People'
Elon Musk, tasked earlier this year with firing thousands of federal workers across the United States, shared a post that blamed 'public sector employees' for mass killings committed under Adolf Hitler and other dictators. The Thursday repost on Musk's X account read: 'Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.' Along with Hitler, the post referred to Josef Stalin, the communist dictator of the Soviet Union until 1953, and Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China, who was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions through starvation and disease. Musk later deleted the repost, but not before X users and others condemned Musk's apparent defense of genocide and mass murder. 'It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,' the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement. Musk's disturbing repost targeting public sector workers comes at a time when the billionaire ― now in charge of the new, so-called Department of Government Efficiency ― has been responsible for the firings of thousands of federal workers. That includes workers in critical positions at the National Weather Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and more. The ADL previously defended Musk when he appeared to give a Nazi salute at an inaugural celebration for President Donald Trump earlier this year, saying Musk should be given 'a bit of grace' or 'perhaps even the benefit of the doubt.' But the ADL changed its tune after Musk made jokes about his salute, including a post on X that said in part: 'Bet you did nazi that coming,' with a laughing emoji. 'Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah,' the ADL said in a statement at the time. Musk has previously endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories, and has outright denied neo-Nazi violence. He is also being sued for defamation by a recent Jewish college graduate after Musk falsely said the man was a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi during a 2023 brawl. 'I certainly — I would say that I — you know, I'm guilty of many self-inflicted wounds,' Musk testified during a deposition in the case last year.
