Sen. Cory Booker addressed the California Democratic convention at the Anaheim Convention Center.
"Real change does not come from Washington. It comes from communities. It comes from the streets. It comes from the people who’s standing up and have shown over and over again – against the powerful, against the elected, against the rich – that the power of the people is greater than the people in power," Booker said on Saturday to the California Democrats.
He capped off his roughly 15-minute speech with a gesture where he placed his right hand on his chest before raising it to the crowd.
Musk delivered a similar gesture in January on Trump's inauguration day, which yielded dozens of headlines from mainstream media outlets that Musk delivered a "Nazi-style salute" to Trump supporters. Liberals and critics frequently attacked Trump while he was on the campaign trail by calling him a Hitler-esque fascist, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, who compared Trump to the German dictator during a town hall in October.
Sen. Cory Booker speaks at the California Democratic convention at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday, May 31, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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"Cory Booker is a straight up NAZI! WOW," conservative X user Gunther Eagleman posted.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)
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Fox News Digital reached out to Booker's office for comment on the matter, but did not immediately receive a reply.
Booker did not appear to join fellow liberals in comparing Musk's wave to a Nazi salute in January, although he has previously slammed Trump as "worse than a racist," accusing him in 2019 of using "racist tropes" as "a weapon to divide our nation against itself."
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