Elon Musk makes Nazi Pun to Joe Rogan, saying he did not see anything wrong with his controversial move

Elon Musk makes Nazi Pun to Joe Rogan, saying he did not see anything wrong with his controversial move

“It was obviously meant in the most positive spirit possible,” Musk said of the move.

Elon Musk is responding to the backlash that came after he performed a controversial hand gesture at President Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration earlier this year.

“I did not see it coming,” the tech billionaire, 53, said, putting “not” and “see” together to sound like “Nazi,” of the reaction to the move he made, which was likened to a Nazi salute, in an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast released on Friday, Feb. 28.

Musk added that “people will Goebbels anything down,” referring to German Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. (He previously made the same statement responding to the backlash in a post on X last month.)

Host Joe Rogan then said in Musk’s defense, “There’s so many examples of people saying ‘my heart goes out to’ while motioning a similar gesture,” adding, “You did it with a little enthusiasm that probably be recommended with hindsight.”

“It was obviously meant in the most positive spirit possible,” Musk responded.