Elon Musk, billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump, leaned into the accusations that his Monday salute was a “Sieg heil” gesture with a series of trollish Nazi puns on X. “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” Musk wrote Thursday, referring to German Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.

The world’s richest person has heaped praise on the Alternative for Deutschland party in recent weeks ahead of the country’s upcoming election.

Podcaster Joe Rogan has weighed in on the debate around whether Elon Musk did a Nazi salute, unsurprisingly coming out fighting for the tech mogul and calling his detractors “a--holes.” Rogan, who recently sidled up to Donald Trump,