Bill Burr seems immune to Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The stand-up avoids overtly political narratives, focusing on life’s little hypocrisies. Or big ones.
He’s no Colbert, Kimmel or Oliver, and he hasn’t spent the past eight-plus years laser-focused on the “Apprentice” star’s every move.
He’s also not afraid to poke the woke bear. He did just that via Netflix’s “Paper Tiger” special.
Lately, though, Burr has been taking a hard turn to the Left. He dismissed the notion that California Democrats were to blame for some of the wildfires’ damage, for example. The facts scream otherwise.
Burr cheered on Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing a health care CEO in cold blood.
Now, Burr is channeling his rage against X owner Elon Musk. The comic insists Musk’s awkward hand gestures at the President Donald Trump inauguration gala showed his support for Adolf Hitler.
It’s the kind of partisan idiocy embraced only by extremists like “The View” hosts. Burr insists there’s no other explanation. Never mind the endless clips of Democratic leaders doing similar gestures, or the complete lack of Nazi-esque behaviors by the world’s richest man.
It’s beneath a comic of Burr’s stature to embrace that line of thinking. Or is it?
Burr just doubled down on the Musk/Nazi comparison on hard-Left NPR.
“That idiot Elon Musk … That guy, who evidently is a Nazi. Like, I just refuse to believe that it was an accidental, two-times Sieg heil, and he does it at a presidential inauguration. This is why I hate liberals. It’s like liberals have no teeth, whatsoever.”
He hates liberals because too many won’t jump to his insane conclusion.
“They just go, ’Oh my God! Can you believe it? I’m getting out of the country!′ You’re going to leave the country ’cause of one guy with dyed hair plugs and a laminated face who makes a bad car and has an obsolete social media platform?
“You’re going to leave? Why doesn’t he leave? Why isn’t he stopped?”
Stopped? How? Luigi Mangione style? What is Musk’s crime, beyond creating electric vehicles via his Tesla corporation?
Has Burr read the headlines about terrorist-style attacks on Tesla dealerships? Did he miss the images of people hoping to take out Musk … permanently?
Troll arrested for threatening to ‘gut’ Elon Musk and ‘parade his corpse through the streets’ https://t.co/kCHsFW3XRO pic.twitter.com/kBeLdg4a1u
— New York Post (@nypost) February 26, 2025
Politics aside, doesn’t Burr realize how influential Musk has been in the fight for free speech?
Perhaps Burr prefers Twitter 1.0 when conservative voices were silenced and the platform did the government’s censorial bidding. Is that what a stand-up comedian who relies on free speech to make a living craves? Really?
Or is he making a concerted push to the Left to snag a talk show or other progressive gig?
There’s only one firm explanation here. Burr is gorging on Legacy Media’s spin regarding Musk. And, sadly, he’s become the most public face of Musk Derangement Syndrome. And he won’t be the last.
