> If you watch the actual video

Here is the actual video in which Musk performs two fascist salutes at a political rally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

It wasn't an accident. He did it deliberately. Twice. He enjoyed himself doing it.

There's no value in the mental gymnastics to invent excuses for his fascist salutes. The rational thing to do is to accept the objective reality of it.