Tesla boss Elon Musk was seen in a strange hat at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Monday.
The official “Make America Great Again” or “MAGA” cap is red and the text is white. What Musk wore, however, was black with embroidered text in an irregular font usually associated with heavy-metal bands and newspapers.
“I’m a dark Gothic MAGA,” Musk said.
However, the Internet has read it differently. The font on Musk’s hat looks suspiciously similar to Nazi typography or the font used for “blackletter.”
The font on Musk’s hat looks suspiciously similar to the font used for Nazi typography or “blackletter” (image posted by @elonmusk on X)
According to a report in FastCompany Magazine, Cheryl Jacobsen, assistant professor of lettering at the University of Iowa, said that blackletter was used as a folk style for Bibles in Germany. Regardless, during the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party re-adopted this font as a sign of its nationalism. It is also on the cover of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf.
The font, now a relic of the past, fell into disuse after it was abandoned by the Nazis due to unfounded rumors of Jewish origin.
Internet sleuths have a lot to say about the matter. One user on Telling you who he is.” While another commented, “Expanding on this. This is literally an Old English font. You can’t cross reference serifs.”
According to the NYT, former President Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff John Kelly made a shocking statement, saying that Donald Trump embodies the definition of a fascist. He added, “Certainly the former president is on the far right, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators – he’s said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist.” “
Having said that, Trump, the MAGA chief, said on Monday, “The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that anyone who’s not voting for her is a Nazi,” he told the crowd. “I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi.”