Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe has branded Elon Musk a “fucking asshole” after he seemingly gave a Nazi-like gesture at President Donald Trump‘s inauguration.
The incident took place on Monday (January 20), when Trump was sworn into the White House for the second time. “I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” Musk said, before slapping his chest with his right hand and extending his arm upwards with the palm facing down. He then turned around to crowd members behind the podium and repeated the gesture.
Many compared it to a Nazi salute signalling obedience to Adolf Hitler.
Now Blythe has launched an angry tirade against Musk on his Instagram Stories, writing: “It’s taken me a couple of days to wrap my head around this one. I’ve tried to consider every angle. Maybe he’s a Nazi? Maybe he’s just trolling? Maybe he’s just so socially awkward he can’t control himself?
“WHO KNOWS? The motherfucker is weird. But one thing is blatantly obvious – he’s a FUCKING ASSHOLE.”
He continued: “I know a few people with autism – not a single one of them has ever REMOTELY reminded me of Hitler. Even if it WAS an autism-induced mistake, he refuses to cop to it, and that tells us everything we need to know. Because, you see, that’s what people with correctly calibrated moral compasses do – they admit their mistakes.
“Supposedly Musk may become an actual government employee at some point – that means we the people will be paying his salary (not that he needs it.) So as a tax paying citizen of the United States, I have a request for the 47th-President Trump, please put your KETAMINE-FUELLED PET ROCKET MONKEY back in his cage so he can do things he’s suited forc- obviously appearing in public is not one of them. Oh, and of course: FUCK ALL NAZIS.”
Musk is yet to respond publicly to Blythe’s comments.
Following, extensive backlash online over the gesture, Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, also weighed in earlier this week.
“I’m just gonna say let’s call a spade a fucking spade,” she wrote on Instagram’s Threads platform. “Especially if there were two spades done in succession based on the reaction of the first spade.”
She did not name Musk in any of the updates but heavily hinted that she was alluding to the incident at the Capitol One Arena. Wilson then shared a second update, seemingly hitting back at claims that the gesture could be explained because of his “autism”.
“I don’t know why ya’ll are reacting with such vigour, I’m clearly only talking about card suits,” she quipped. “I mean I have ADHD and this was CLEARLY just an accident that people happened to interpret to mean something other than just card suits.
“After all, there’s no proof I’m not just talking about card suits,” she joked. “People assuming that I’m not just talking about card suits just goes to show how dishonest people/the media can be.”
Wilson isn’t the only one to speak out against Musk following the gesture. Grimes – the musician who was previously in a relationship with Musk and shares multiple children with him – distanced herself from him online, My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero called him out online, and Green Day also took aim at the billionaire while on stage in South Africa, changing the lyrics to ‘American Idiot’ to take a jab at him.
Although he has yet to formally denounce Nazism, Musk did take to X to agree with a tweet that read: “Can we please retire the calling people a Nazi thing? It didn’t work during the election, it’s not working now, it’s tired, boring, and old material, you’ve burned out its effect, people don’t feel shocked by it anymore, the wolf has been cried too many times.”
He responded: “Yeah exactly.”
In a separate post on X, he wrote: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired”.