Here’s the thing about Nazi salutes. If you didn’t mean to make one, you would apologize if someone thought you did. Say you’re at a right-wing rally and find yourself in the middle of “an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm” – clapping your hand over your heart and then thrusting it stiff-armed over the crowd.

He’s trying to use mainstream objections about Hitler salutes to launder the Hitler salute and make it an acceptable in-group identity marker. This would be morally reprehensible for anyone. But from a Christian minister?

Robinson has defended the gesture, with which he concluded his speech at the National Pro-Life Summit last week, as an ‘attempt at dry wit.’

Calvin Robinson blamed the fallout on liberals attempting to distract people from what he claims is the real issue: infanticide.

A British priest who delivered an Elon Musk-inspired, straight-armed salute during his address to a pro-life gathering last week has been kicked out of his church. The Anglican Catholic Church announced Wednesday that Father Calvin Robinson is “no longer serving as a priest” in the denomination.

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell had an explosive showdown with NewsNight panelist Scott Jennings over his defense of Elon Musk’s questionable salute. Rampell achieved the rare feat of stunning Jennings into silence after she threw down the gauntlet and challenged him to repeat Musk’s now infamous gesture,

A Grand Rapids priest was removed from his position in the Anglican Catholic Church on Wednesday after mimicking a gesture recently made by Elon Musk, which has been compared to a Nazi salute.

In an interview on MSNBC, Gov. Tim Walz said "of course he did" when discussing about whether or not Elon Musk's gesture was a Nazi salute.

A priest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after the priest mimicked a straight-arm gesture performed by Elon Musk earlier this month.

A Michigan priest had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after he mimicked a straight-arm gesture performed by Elon Musk during a speech earlier this month that some have interpreted as a Nazi salute.

A U.K. group called Everyone Hates Elon is branding hundreds of Tesla vehicles in London with stickers saying "don't buy swasticars," according to a Novara Media Instagram post. Newsweek has reached out to a Tesla via email, and to Everyone Hates Elon via social media for comment.