A midwestern forecaster is out of a job after criticizing Elon Musk's infamous salute at the inauguration and calling him a Nazi.

“CBS 58 meteorologist Sam Kuffel makes a pair of vulgar Instagram posts while spreading the lie that Elon Musk was giving a Nazi salute during yesterday’s Presidential Inauguration.

A meteorologist in Milwaukee has been “dropped” by the TV station where she worked after criticizing Elon Musk in an Instagram post about his Nazi-like salutes, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Musk has long been an advocate of free speech, previously saying, "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy."

Sam Kuffel made two posts on Instagram criticizing the world’s richest man over the inauguration gesture, only to be out of a job the following day

Vivian Wilson, who often criticizes her estranged father, has responded to Elon Musk’s controversial gesture at Trump’s inauguration rally

Live” cast member Chloe Fineman has no regrets about calling out X owner Elon Musk for making her cry when he hosted “SNL” in 2021. On Tuesday night, Fineman took to her Instagram Story (via Daily Beast) to write,

Musk has promoted antisemitic and white nationalist content online, and has endorsed a neo-Nazi party in Germany.

As news of meteorologist Sam Kuffel's firing broke, a number of people expressed support and opposition to the move by the local CBS affiliate.

There is no record of the post on Musk's X profile. There have been no credible news reports about the supposed post from Musk.

A Milwaukee meteorologist who spoke out against Elon Musk’s “Nazi” salute has since parted ways with CBS affiliate WDJT-TV. “Meteorologist Sam Kuffel is no longer employed at CBS58,” news director Jessie Garcia wrote in a staff memo Wednesday obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

A Milwaukee TV station dismissed Kuffel after she called Elon Musk’s gestures Nazi salutes on her Instagram page. Her community is not letting her firing stand.