A figurine of Elon Musk photographed in front of the logo of social network X, January 23, 2025. DADO RUVIC / REUTERS
January 10, 2026, was just another Saturday for Elon Musk. “Why is the UK government so fascist?” asked the far-right billionaire in yet another inflammatory tweet on his social network X.
The next day, an account with just 37,000 followers put him in his place with a single archival photo: the same Musk, appearing to make a Nazi salute on January 20, 2025.
The biting response went viral, with 7.5 million views on Musk’s own platform. The X account that had delivered the scathing comeback was French Response, which has a unique trait: It is officially run by the French Foreign Ministry.
The French Response account responds to a provocative tweet by Elon Musk with a photo of the billionaire’s salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025.
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