Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan he's 'not a Nazi' and the online hate he gets is 'pretty stressful' [View all]

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https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tells-joe-rogan-hes-not-a-nazi-2025-2





While speaking to the crowd at President Donald Trump's inauguration celebration in January, Musk made a gesture that caused many to question whether it was intended to be a fascist salute.


On Friday, Musk told Rogan that the persistent criticisms are "ridiculous," and that the gesture was not a Nazi salute, joking, "Now I can never point at things diagonally."

"Hopefully people realize I'm not a Nazi. Just to be clear, I'm not a Nazi," Musk said, laughing.



Musk then argued that if you're not committing genocide, then you can't be called a Nazi.

"What's relevant about Nazis is like, are you invading Poland? And if you're not invading Poland, maybe you're not" a Nazi, he said. "You have to be committing genocide and starting wars. "

"What is actually bad about Nazis — it wasn't their fashion or their mannerisms, it was the war and genocide," he added.

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At another point in the episode, Rogan asked the billionaire how he personally deals with hate and attacks against him.

"It's pretty stressful," Musk answered, taking a much more serious tone. "They actually want to kill me. They say so online. There's like Reddit forums where they don't just want to kill me, they want to desecrate my corpse."