Did President Trump post on Truth Social "That totally was a Nazi salute that Elon did by the way"? No, that's not true: a viral image of such a post was fabricated. There is no trace of such a post on Trump's actual Truth Social account and none was indexed by Google. Had he done so, it would have been a major news story, but there has been no evidence-based reporting on such a post.
The image appeared in several places, for example in a June 6, 2025 post on X (archived here) where it was published on the @TylerDurden account. The image of the fake post was posted without comment. The fake post began: "That totally was a Nazi salute that Elon did by the way." It continued:
You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it.
Lead Stories reviewed Donald Trump's account on Truth Social (archived here) and did not see a post like this published between May 31 and June 6, 2025.
A Google search for the phrase "Nazi" limited to links containing truthsocial.com/@realdonaldtrump (using the "site:" search operator) returned no results (archived here), indicating Google didn't recently index such a post.
Trump's Truth, a website that archives Trump's Truth Social posts, did not include any posts (archived here) with the phrase "Nazi salute".
Lead Stories has collected past fact checks arising from Nazi salute controversies here.
