Elon Musk reshares post that claim, 'Hitler didn't kill Jews, public sector workers did,' faces backlash

Union workers slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he reposted a startling message on X declaring that “Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Public sector employees did.”

Lee Saunders, union president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of the AFL-CIO, issued a furious response, saying: “America’s public service workers — our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians — chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers.”

“Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day. That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare," he added.

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The tweet added to one of the many disturbing instances when Musk sided with Hitler and appeared to excuse his draconian actions.

Musk retweeted the Hilter post just days after the Trump administration announced that it was withholding some $4 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University for failing to squelch pro-Gaza protests at the expense of Jewish students.

Musk, who was born and raised in apartheid South Africa, triggered an early uproar when he notoriously performed what appeared to be a Nazi salute during Trump’s inauguration ceremony.

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He later mocked outrage over the gesture with a series of unfunny Nazi “puns” featuring Hitler’s top aides, including: “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” The billionaire also wrote: “Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!“ Musk concluded: “Bet you did nazi that coming,” with a laughing-to-tears emoji.

Union workers were not the only ones outraged by Musk’s antics. The head of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League ripped Musk’s Nazi “jokes,” noting that Holocaust was a “singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it.”