Joe Rogan is defending Elon Musk after the billionaire garnered backlash and controversy. Critics accused Elon Musk of making an antisemitic gesture during a speech. Now, Rogan called it all "bulls--t."
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"This is the Donald Trump excuse: You'd do anything you can to stop Hitler," Rogan said during his Wednesday show. "This is why they want to conflate and they always want to pretend that everyone's Hitler. The problem with that, after a while, it's crying wolf, and people are like, 'Oh, this is a bulls-t game you're playing and you're just using it as an excuse.'"
Rogan further put Musk's critics on blast.
"People use woke ideology as an excuse to be an a-hole, and it's really just people that are a-holes that are attaching themselves to things that make them feel righteous," he said.
Joe Rogan Defends Elon Musk
Rogan claimed that critics try to "wrap themselves in this idea to give them virtue." This gives them basically a free pass to "say the most awful things about other people that have different perspectives."
"By nature, if you're doing that, you're doing the wrong thing. You're a bad person," Rogan said.
Meanwhile, others also came to Musk's defense as well. This includes, let me check my notes, the Anti-Defamation League. "It seems that [Musk] made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a N--i salute," the organization wrote on X.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also claims that it was a smear campaign against the billionaire.
"Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust," Netanyahu wrote on X. "He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel's right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state."
However, not everyone agreed with this sentiment.
US Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, said that Musk made a clear gesture.
"Viewed in that context, and regardless of any justification, his salute last night at Donald Trump's inauguration rally can only be interpreted as a Seig Heil salute that is synonymous with N--i support for Hitler," Goldman said.
