So public surveillance in US is already at the level where you can't do anything without the Government knowing. (not even burn a few nazi Teslas /s).

I don't favor Musk at all but I find it hard to believe that the nazi salute was on purpose, seems like that was blown out of proportion, but the chances are not zero, Musk grew in Pretoria, South Africa which had an Apartheid Government with similar ideology, a place which a lot of nazis took refuge after they lost the war.