It doesn't matter what Musk really meant with this salute. Robotaxis are exclusively a product for large urban areas, and that population largely didn't like it at all.

Musk's response to the accusations has included the complaint that the "legacy media" is trying to cancel him.

The world doesn't seem quite ready to let Elon Musk move on from the salute he made at Trump's inauguration. It's already been adopted by anti-Musk protestors, who projected it onto a Tesla plant in Berlin ahead of the impending federal election.