Enlarge / After 12 hours, the Tesla CEO deleted the Holocaust joke. (credit: Twitter)
In the early hours of Thursday morning, Elon Musk tweeted a meme that compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Adolf Hitler.
The tweet, replying to crypto coin enthusiasts, included a photo of Hitler with the phrase “stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau” and “I had a budget,” a reference to the industrialized murder of millions of people by the German regime in extermination camps during the 1940s.
In the past, Musk has tweeted his support for the “freedom convoy” protests, a right-wing movement funded mostly from the US that has been causing civil unrest in neighboring Canada.
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Source: Ars Technica – Elon Musk tweets, then deletes, Holocaust joke