Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Promoting Interview With Podcaster Who Minimized German Atrocities In World War II

After receiving backlash on social media, X owner Elon Musk deleted his tweet promoting Tucker Carlson’s newest controversial interview with podcaster Darryl Cooper. 

On September 3, Musk declared on X that Carlson’s interview with Cooper was “very interesting” and “worth watching.” 

His post has since been deleted after he received harsh backlash from X users.

Carlson’s interview with Cooper on The Tucker Carlson Show took place on Monday, during which they discussed the Holocaust and events of World War II.

The podcaster said former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill “was the chief villain of the Second World War.”

“Now, he didn’t kill the most people,” he admitted. “He didn’t commit the most atrocities.”

“But I believe – and I don’t really think – I think when you really get into it and tell the story – right – and don’t leave anything out, you see that he was primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did, becoming something other than an invasion of Poland,” he added. “Or just, I mean every step of the way, like people are very often, I find, surprised to learn there’s – there’s a two-step process.” 

Cooper then clarified that despite what he said about Churchill, he does not view Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin as the heroes.

“Germany – look, they – they put themselves into a – into a position,” he declared. “And Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for [World War II], but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the East in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners and so forth that they were going to have to handle.”

“They went in with no plan for that,” the podcaster claimed. “And they just threw these people into camps, and millions of people ended up dead there.”

Carlson’s interview soon received condemnation from X users, particularly toward Cooper’s controversial opinions.

On September 2, the X user @tylerlong77 mocked the podcaster for believing that “mass genocide is b/c of ‘poor planning.'”

The user @Charles32615710 wrote on X: “Oh dear. Embarrassing, deranged, clearly faulty and seemingly based on very little real knowledge. Amazing that such poor quality could get on such a widely distributed podcast.”

“I have never heard of Darrell Cooper,” another user known as @balsamo_r. “But his claim that Churchill was ‘the chief villain of World War II’ is ridiculous. To blame the widening of the war on Churchill when he was not even Prime Minister when Poland was invaded is absurd.”

During an interview at the World Government Summit 2024 in March, Carlson was ridiculed for saying Moscow is a far nicer place compared to any city in America.

On July 3, Carlson falsely stated on X that he had secured an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which Zelenskyy’s office denied.