Joe Rogan responds to liberals who accused Elon Musk of using Nazi salute on Trump's inauguration day
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Joe Rogan accused liberals of engaging in deceitful behavior and exaggerating issues after Elon Musk was accused of making a Nazi salute at an event celebrating President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“This is the Donald Trump excuse: You’d do anything you can to stop Hitler,” Rogan, 57, told computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman during his Wednesday show — seemingly referring to the hypothetical thought question often used about killing “baby Hitler” if given the chance.

“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.”

The podcast host pointed out that Musk has “talked about” the issue “a lot” and that he’s “absolutely correct.”

“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. 

The UFC commentator said those people “wrap themselves in this idea to give them virtue,” giving them a reason 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 proclaimed.

Rogan added that the thought process leads people down “the wrong path,” and “intelligent, aware people who have control of their emotions recognize that,” and they won’t be “taken seriously.”

The mega podcaster’s comments come after Musk appeared to thank supporters of President Trump with a gesture that the critics claimed was a Nazi salute during a rally for the 47th prez on Monday.

The billionaire tech mogul quickly came out and denied it was the Nazi salute — arguing the left-wingers making those accusations “need better dirty tricks.”

“Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired,” Musk, 55, said in a post on X.

“The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi,” Musk also later wrote in response to the allegations.

The Anti-Defamation League came to the defense of the SpaceX CEO.

“It seems that [Musk] made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the antisemitism watchdog wrote on X. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also chimed in on the controversy, saying Musk was being “falsely smeared.” 

“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, which is owned by the Tesla CEO.

“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.”

US Rep. Dan Goldman (R-NY), co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, rejected the ADL’s statement and said it was clear what Musk had done.

“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 Nazi support for Hitler,” Goldman said in a statement.

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