The billionaire says Adolf Hitler and other dictators of the 20th century didn’t actually murder millions of people.

Elon Musk, tasked earlier this year with firing thousands of federal workers across the United States, shared a post that blamed “public sector employees” for mass killings committed under Adolf Hitler and other dictators.

In March 2025, users on X claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump's DOGE adviser, Elon Musk, either posted or shared another user's post that displayed an image reading, "Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did." Readers also asked about this matter via email.