Marketing professor and anti-MAGA podcaster Scott Galloway launched an unhinged attack on Elon Musk, branding the billionaire a "traitor to the West" before invoking the infamous Rosenberg espionage case, which ended with the execution of two Americans during the Cold War.
Galloway spewed the incendiary comments during a discussion with former technology journalist Kara Swisher about Silicon Valley's growing influence, arguing that the United States' obsession with billionaire innovators has created a dangerous double standard.
However, what began as a familiar critique of Silicon Valley's billionaire class quickly took a darker turn. Galloway compared Musk to aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, whose sympathies toward Nazi Germany before America's entry into World War II remain a controversial chapter in U.S. history. Galloway then invoked Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the American couple executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
"We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall," Galloway said, before insisting Musk should be held to the same standards as other traitors.
Galloway stopped short of explicitly calling for Musk's execution, but bringing up two spies who were put to death while calling him a traitor was a striking comparison.
Here are Galloway's remarks in full:
Okay, so I'll go fail first. I think the idolatry of innovators has gotten so out of control. I was talking to the secretary before this. If you go up and down the West Coast, you're going to see literally companies. The West Coast is littered with multi-trillion dollar companies, and you get to the Canadian
