A Milwaukee-based CBS affiliate has dismissed one of its weather presenters after she reportedly called Elon Musk a Nazi on social media, over a gesture the tech billionaire made during an inauguration rally for US President Donald Trump.
WDJT-TV (Channel 58), where meteorologist Sam Kuffel had worked since 2019, has confirmed her departure but provided no official explanation in an internal memo to or public comments, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
While the station described the matter as a “personal issue,” Kuffel was reportedly dismissed one day after commenting on Musk’s gesture on her Instagram account.
The TV channel has removed Kuffel’s bio from its website and no longer mentions her in its weather section, but retains articles written by her. Her Instagram account has been set to private, but screenshots purportedly capturing her posts are available online. She has not commented publicly on the incident.
Before her tenure at WDJT-TV, the journalist worked at WAOW-TV (Channel 9) in Wausau, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in atmospheric science.
The Anti-Defamation League, a US-based pro-Israeli group which monitors anti-Semitism and hate speech, has described Musk’s gesture as “awkward” but did not say it was a Nazi salute. Similarly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the subject of an International Criminal Court warrant on charges related to genocide, has tweeted in support of the X owner, declaring him to be “a friend of Israel.”
If it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, maybe, just maybe its a duck. They will still give some political grace saying its jot PC to call him a nazi even if he starts calling tump “mein fuher”, starts preaching mein kampf, and starts building oddly large ovens.
I don’t think musk is a neo-nazi.
He’s just a businessman and right now the alt-right are his clientele.
He’s actually making “the libs” look stupid because they used to be all-in on the tesla bandwagon. Hopefully we can learn from this and stop putting our faith in people who only want to maximize profit off of us.
I think it’ll be hilarious when all the businesses rolling back DEI bring it back and “the libs” forget why it was ever taken away in the first place.
Ya’ll are being herded like sheep. Musk is your shephard.
He’s a fucking Nazi. This isn’t some business strategy, dude thinks he can take on the world cause everyone who can stop him won’t. This is best case scenario for him. Now he can openly be a Nazi and get paid. And we’re not sheep we’re hostages, homie.
And look at all the fucks behind him loving it, they knew it was going to happen. I am embarrassed for the US right now and I’m not even American.