# 'Deeply disturbing': Musk's 'Hitler didn't murder millions' repost draws outrage

**Author:** Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy  
**Date:** March 14, 2025  
**Source:** USA TODAY

WASHINGTON − Billionaire Elon Musk, who has been cutting thousands of federal workers as the head of Department of Government Efficiency, on Thursday reposted a message on X saying “Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Public sector employees did.”

The post read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

Musk's repost, which now appears to be deleted, drew furious reactions from a labor union and the Anti-Defamation League.

“Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day. That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare,” Saunders said.

The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that seeks to combat antisemitism, said the post was “deeply disturbing.”

“It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the group said on social media. Musk has more than 219 million followers on X.

Trump hosted an event at the White House on Wednesday to showcase his support for Tesla which he spent $44 billion dollars to acquire. _Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House Correspondent for USA TODAY._ You can follow her on .

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