Elon Musk’s inauguration salute earns backlash from ‘SNL’ star Chloe Fineman

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Elon Musk’s inauguration salute earns backlash from ‘SNL’ star Chloe Fineman

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USA TODAY

“Saturday Night Live” star Chloe Fineman is once again speaking out against Elon Musk.

Fineman took to her Instagram stories Tuesday in a since-expired post, reaffirming her dislike for the Tesla founder and newly minuted Trump acolyte.

“Remember when I got in trouble for calling out mr nazi salute? Ya, no regrets,” wrote Fineman, who is Jewish, referring to a moment during this week’s inauguration festivities in which Musk appeared to give a Nazi salute.

The acrimony between Fine and Musk started in August when her cast mate Bowen Yang revealed on an episode of “Watch What Happens Live” that an unnamed host, later revealed to be the tech billionaire, had made several cast members cry when he hosted the show in 2021.

Chloe Fineman attends The American Museum of Natural History's 2024 Museum Gala at American Museum of Natural History on Dec. 5, 2024, in New York City.

In November, Fineman identified herself as one of those people, in a since-deleted TikTok.

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“You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing a sketch, I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you had any questions, and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, ‘It’s not funny,'” she said, addressing Musk.

“I waited for you to be like, ‘Haha, JK.’ No,” she continued, “Then you started pawing through my script, flipping each page, being like, ‘I didn’t laugh once. Not one time.'”

Musk later responded on X, a platform he owns, by defending his reaction to Fineman’s sketch but stopping short of confirming that he made her cry. He did not apologize. Since then, Musk, like Trump, has become a frequent critic of the show, saying it “has become so woke” on social media.

Fineman was not the only one to balk at Musk’s gesture, in which he raised his arm from his chest into the air at an angle. The move sparked outrage online, eventually leading the Anti-Defamation League to weigh in calling it “an awkward gesture” and implying it was not likely an homage to the “Sieg Heils” salute used in Hitler’s Germany.

Musk himself made light of the accusation, opting to respond with puns like, “His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!” in a post to X Thursday.

Contributing: Brendan Morrow

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