'We will be in touch': MTG sends ominous threat to 'lying' PBS over Musk post

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) aimed Monday at the partially taxpayer-funded PBS News over its social media post about tech billionaire Elon Musk's inauguration gesture, which drew comparisons on social media to a Nazi salute.

Musk shook up social media after a speech he delivered to a cheering MAGA crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally. But it wasn’t the speech itself inside the Capitol One Arena that stunned political observers in the first hours of Trump’s new presidency – but the gesture he made at the conclusion that opened up a flood of reaction on social media.

“My god… Musk just did the N*zi Salute live on TV,” health economist Eric Feigl-Ding posted to his Bluesky followers above a screenshot of the moment. He later followed up with a subsequent post: "I’ve ready a dozen pundits including Berlin journalists who agree it’s the Hitler 3rd Reich salute."

PBS News also noticed Musk's gesture.

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"Billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post-inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump at the Capital One Arena," PBS wrote in a post on X.

The organization wrote that Musk put his hand on his chest and then raised "it in a salute that appeared similar to the 'Sieg Heil' used by Nazis at their victory rallies."

PBS' characterization of the gesture appeared to catch Greene's attention, who was recently named to run the House panel tapped with working with Musk on slashing the federal budget.

"As the Chairwoman of the Oversight Subcommittee on DOGE, I look forward to PBS @NewsHour coming before my committee and explaining why lying and spreading propaganda to serve the Democrat party and attack Republicans is a good use of taxpayer funds. We will be in touch soon," she wrote in an ominous post on Musk's X platform.

PBS receives about a third of its funding for public television from combined state, federal and local funding. It receives about 15% from the federal government.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Nazi or Hitler salute debuted in Nazi Germany in the 1930s as a way to "pay homage to Adolf Hitler."

"It consists of raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down. In Nazi Germany, it was often accompanied by chanting or shouting 'Heil Hitler' or 'Sieg Heil.' Since World War II, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists have continued to use the salute, making it the most common white supremacist hand sign in the world," the organization wrote on its website.

Watch Musk's gesture below and see PBS News' post in question or at this link.