SpaceX CEO Elon Musk deleted a post on Twitter where he compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to German dictator Adolf Hitler in his attack against vaccine mandates after he received criticism for his meme tweet.

The Tesla CEO's now-deleted post was a response to a Twitter message by the trade publication CoinDesk. The latter reported that the Canadian government was cracking down on crypto transactions that aimed to help the truckers who were demonstrating vaccine mandates in the country.

Trudeau and Hitler

Posting a meme featuring the likeness of Hitler, Musk requested people to stop comparing him to Trudeau. At the bottom of the meme, the SpaceX CEO wrote that the German dictator was different because he had a budget.

After 12 hours of posting his tweet, Musk deleted the post after it received criticism from other Twitter users. One of the people said that the meme was made in "extremely poor taste" and added that it was not a good look, saying there were better ways of making an argument, as per the New York Post.

However, despite Musk's attempt to discredit the Canadian government, Trudeau's administration had actually passed a budget last summer but admittedly, after two years of not doing so. The Tesla CEO's meme was believed to have been sparked by his anger after Canada identified and froze trading on 34 crypto wallets that were allegedly linked to protesters.

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Earlier this week, Trudeau made a historic move by becoming the first Canadian leader to invoke the country's Emergencies Act. The process gave the prime minister more powers to break up the trucker protests fighting back against the nation's vaccine mandates.

The Daily Beast reported that the 50-year-old tech CEO previously said that he had already received his coronavirus vaccine shots. However, Musk has repeatedly spoken out about vaccine mandates, calling them an "erosion of freedom." He also made a Nazi reference earlier in the pandemic when he complained that lockdowns were "fascist."

Musk's Criticisms

In its own Twitter post, the American Jewish Committee said that Musk made poor judgment when he used Hitler as part of his argument on social media. They said that comparing the German dictator, who is responsible for the deaths of millions, was not an appropriate way of criticizing national policies.

Musk also received criticism from a doctors group that represented more than 17,000 physicians. The group filed a complaint against a program that the SpaceX CEO funded after they argued it was conducting harmful research on monkeys, The Hill reported.

Furthermore, the recent incident was not the first time that Musk expressed public support for the Canadian protesters fighting against the nation's vaccine mandates. When the truckers began demonstrating in the capital in late January, Musk posted a photo of the long line of trucks and posted a tweet with the message, "Canadian truckers rule."

The tech CEO also previously criticized the Canadian government as last month, he said that the government was suppressing peaceful protests. He added that the nation's cross-border vaccine mandate was a "path to tyranny."

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