Elon Musk on Tuesday blamed "legacy media propaganda" for the public's increasing criticism of him since he entered the political fold.

"Well, I mean, unfortunately, what I’ve learned is that legacy media propaganda is very effective at making people believe things that aren’t true," Musk said when asked on CNBC's "Power Lunch" if his work for President Trump was worth the backlash.

When CNBC reporter David Faber asked for an example of this, Musk pointed to the controversy surrounding the hand gesture he made during Inauguration Day that was compared to a Nazi salute.

"That I’m a Nazi, for example, and how many legacy media publications, talk shows, whatever, try to claim that I was a Nazi because of some random hand........

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