Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan 'there's no way' X would exist under a Kamala Harris administration

Ahead of Tuesday’s election, Joe Rogan hosted X owner and entrepreneur Elon Musk on his podcast the Joe Rogan Experience, during which Musk said a Kamala Harris administration would bring the end of X.

Noting boycotts that the platform has faced since he took over ownership, Musk said, "I think if Trump wins, we'll see, you know, probably a lot — most of the boycott lift, but if Kamala wins, we'll see that boycott gets stronger and they’ll friggin shut it down." 

"There's no way that the sort of Kamala public regime would allow X to exist," Musk continued.

Rogan asked how a Harris administration would attempt this, to which Musk replied, "they've had this whole thing about, like, hate speech, misinformation, whatever, except that they're the ones pushing the misinformation. But that doesn't stop them from filing massive, you know, lawsuits and using the DOJ. I mean, like, the DOJ is, you know, attacking SpaceX, for example, for not hiring asylum seekers, even though it is legal for SpaceX to hire anyone who's not a permanent resident of the US. So we're damned if we do, and damned if we don't. Just an example, of what DOJ can do.

Musk said during the conversation that he was on the left "until, like, three years ago," adding, "it’s not the left anymore."

"We want to maximize personal liberty, and we want to be kind to people, you know, we want to have empathy, but it’s very important to have personal freedom and a merit-based society. And the left wants to oppress your freedoms, especially freedom of speech, and they want to have a non-merit-based society, you know, with race-based and sex-based preferences. 

Rogan and Musk also spoke about how "insane" it was when Trump was de-platformed in the wake of January 6, with Musk saying, Trump was posting "do not riot, don't do any destruction of property, you know. Please stay calm. Like, that's the kind of stuff he was posting. And you're like, what's wrong with that? And then some people say, like, oh, that's like, some sort of dog whistle. He means the opposite. I'm like, okay, so we'll give you Trump's account. Now you post what you think he should post, because he can post nothing, he can ask people to calm down. Like, what? It was insane. Like, it didn't make any sense."

Musk also criticized the Democratic party for pushing hoaxes "over and over again" that "have been debunked thoroughly," like the "fine people" hoax or the latest one in which Democrats have claimed that Trump wants former Rep Liz Cheneyexecuted by firing squad, while Trump was instead referring to how "war hawk" Cheney may feel differently about going to war if the guns of war were pointed at her.

"They’ll take, like, not even a full sentence, like half a sentence, and then they’ll push it on every ad" and "every speaking event."