It doesn't matter what Musk really meant with this salute. Robotaxis are exclusively a product for large urban areas, and that population largely didn't like it at all.

An elected official in Pennslvian resigned from her post after she mimicked Elon Musk ’s straight-arm gesture that the head of a prominent U.S. Jewish civil rights called a “Nazi salute.”

Musk's response to the accusations has included the complaint that the "legacy media" is trying to cancel him.

A Republican official in Pennsylvania has been forced to resign after posting her own version of Elon Musk’s highly evocative salute from Donald Trump’s inauguration. Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith posted a TikTok video in which she hit her chest three times and extended her arm out in front of her,

The board said in a statement that it intends to accept Smith’s resignation at its next meeting, adding that it “cannot and will not tolerate such conduct.”

A local elected official in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has resigned after coming under fire for a social media post.

Pennsylvania official Laura Smith resigned after backlash over a TikTok video mimicking Elon Musk's controversial salute gesture.