Sympathy for trucker protests
Elon Musk compares Trudeau to Hitler
02/17/2022, 11:39 p.m
Canadian truckers have been protesting the Corona measures taken by Prime Minister Trudeau’s government for weeks. Tesla boss Musk shows sympathy for the demonstrators. On Twitter, the entrepreneur allows himself to be carried away with a confused comparison.
Tesla founder Elon Musk has compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler for his crackdown on the ongoing blockade of truck drivers. Musk posted a picture of the dictator on Twitter with the caption “Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau.” The entry was later deleted.
Musk had previously expressed support for the truckers who have been causing chaos in the Canadian capital Ottawa and at several border crossings to the United States in protest of Trudeau’s corona policy for weeks. Musk’s Twitter post was in response to a report that Canadian authorities have asked financial institutions to ban cryptocurrency transactions in support of the protesters.
The actions of the truck drivers had started in protest against the vaccination requirement at border crossings, which had been introduced by Canada and the USA in mid-January. The demonstrations are now generally directed against the Corona rules and the government of Prime Minister Trudeau.
On Monday, the head of government invoked emergency powers to take action against the protest convoys. This gives the authorities more legal powers to arrest protesters, confiscate their trucks and cut off funding for the protests. On Thursday, Ottawa police prepared to clear the Parliament District.
The organization American Jewish Committee sharply criticized Musk’s Hitler comparison. The entrepreneur had shown “extremely poor judgement”. “He must apologize immediately.”