The hit podcaster called out people for playing a ‘bullsh** game’ of accusing ‘everyone’ of being a Nazi after certain sections of the media blasted the Tesla CEO for using the loathsome gesture. 

While on stage during one of the inauguration events celebrating Donald Trump as the 47th president, Musk thumped his right hand over his heart, fingers spread wide, and extended his right arm out at an upward angle.

He then turned around and repeated the gesture.

He quickly came under fire for the now-viral moment, with many speculating that he gave an overt gesture to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

During a Wednesday episode of his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan, 57, said that those pretending that ‘everyone is Hitler’ are ‘broken’ as he stood up for the billionaire, who has appeared five times on the show.

‘This is why they want to conflate and always want to pretend that everyone’s Hitler. The problem with that is, after a while, it’s crying wolf and people are like, ‘Oh, this is a bull***t game you’re playing and you’re just using it as an excuse’, Rogan said.

‘Elon has talked about this a lot. He’s absolutely correct is that 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 continued.

‘So they wrap themselves in this idea to give them virtue and to allow them to say the most awful things about other people that have different perspectives.’

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Joe Rogan hit back at critics ‘crying wolf’ for accusing Elon Musk of using a Nazi salute during the inauguration celebration on Monday

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Musk quickly came under fire for the now-viral moment, with many speculating that he gave an overt gesture to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis

He added that the ‘horrific unfounded personal attacks’ only make people ‘less and less effective.’

‘Intelligent and aware people who have control of their emotions recognize that. They’re not going to take your perspective seriously, so you’re going to be less and less effective with what you do.’

Musk also hit back at those claiming that he made that gesture, accusing his critics of needing ‘better dirty tricks.’

The founder of X also said that ‘the ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.’

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization founded to combat anti-Semitism and has criticized Musk in the past, also rushed to his defense, saying it appears that ‘made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute’.

The ADL also noted that Trump’s inauguration was a ‘delicate moment’ and that ‘politics are inflamed’ but urged ‘all sides’ to offer each other ‘bit of grace’ and ‘perhaps even the benefit of the doubt’.

Musk’s gesture comes after he made several statements in recent weeks in support of Germany’s far-right AFD party.

‘This was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization,’ he said as he made the ‘salute’.

‘This one really mattered. Thank you for making it happen! Thank you.’

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The hit podcaster called out people for playing a ‘bullsh** game’ of accusing ‘everyone’ of being a Nazi. (Pictured: Rogan posing with Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump at a pre-inauguration event)

Historian Aaron Astor also rebuffed accusations of Musk’s Nazi emulation.

‘I have criticized Elon Musk many times for letting neo-Nazis pollute this platform,’ he wrote on X, adding: ‘But this gesture is not a Nazi salute.’

‘This is a socially awkward autistic man’s wave to the crowd where he says ‘my heart goes out to you.’

Musk announced in 2021 he had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism.

Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in, writing in an X post on Thursday that Musk ‘is being falsely smeared.’

‘Elon is a great friend of Israel,’ Netanyahu added of the South African native. ‘He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.’

‘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,’ the PM concluded.

Despite his response and others coming to his defense, many are still convinced that his hand gesture is linked to Nazis.

Claire Aubin, a historian who specializes in Nazism within the United States, claimed Musk’s gesture was a ‘sieg heil,’ or Nazi salute.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also came to Musk’s defense on Thursday, claiming he is a ‘great friend of Israel’ and saying liberals are ‘falsely smearing’ the billionaire

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CBS meteorologist, Sam Kuffel, 31, was fired from her job after she shared controversial Instagram posts of Musk from that day, saying ‘He’s a Nazi.’

‘My professional opinion is that you’re all right, you should believe your eyes,’ Aubin posted on X, aligning with those who found the gesture was an overt reference to Nazis.

CBS meteorologist, Sam Kuffel, 31, was fired from her job after she shared controversial Instagram posts of Musk from that day, saying ‘He’s a Nazi.’

‘Meteorologist Sam Kuffel is no longer employed at CBS 58,’ read a staff memo from news director Jessie Garcia, obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ‘A search for a replacement is underway.’ DailyMail.com has contacted CBS for comment.

Kuffel shared footage of the movement in a Tuesday Instagram story posted on her personal account, which is now private. It’s unclear whether it was public at the time.

‘Dude Nazi saluted twice. TWICE. During the inauguration,’ Kuffel captioned the video. ‘You f*** with this and this man, I don’t f*** with you. Full stop,’ she added.

The weather forecaster also shared a fiery meme of a character from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia saying ‘screw that old b****. He’s a Nazi.’

Kuffel had been working as a meteorologist at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin CBS station for just over five years, according to her LinkedIn account.

Before that, she had the same role at ABC affiliate WAOW in Wasau, Wisconsin for three years and six months, per the page.