Also note the family history of inappropriate saluting. (But he's not really serious about all this stuff until he breaks out the retrofuturistic uniforms.) From The Leader-Post [Regina, Sask.], 13 April 1939, p. 3

Musk's grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman, in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (21 Dec 1946), p. 7, on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anti-Semitism, fascism, &c. news.google.com/newspapers?n...