Greg Gutfeld Slams Critics Mocking Elon Musk: “Losers Attack Tesla Because They Can’t Innovate”

In a fiery and comical segment on Gutfeld!, host Greg Gutfeld didn’t hold back while responding to recent attacks aimed at Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Tesla after a failed rocket launch. The late-night kingpin took special aim at MSNBC contributor Michael Steele, who sarcastically told Musk to “go back to your day job” and leave governing to the professionals.

“Rockets are hard,” Musk had tweeted after the setback. Gutfeld agreed—and used the opportunity to torch the critics.

“It’s like picking on the kid in the robotics club because his robot failed. At least he built a robot! What have you done—tweeted about it?” Gutfeld quipped.

He even jokingly suggested Musk should build a robot specifically designed to lift Michael Steele out of his chair and “twirl him around.” Co-hosts couldn’t help but laugh, noting that Musk probably could do that.

Comedian Joe Machi joined in, highlighting the absurdity of recent reports of people vandalizing Tesla factories, and mocking protesters who chanted, “We need clean air, not another billionaire.”

“You’re protesting an electric car company… for not giving you clean air? That’s like yelling at a salad for making you fat,” Gutfeld said, shaking his head.

Kennedy, another panelist, reminded viewers that Musk used to be a media darling when he was just making electric cars. “Now that he’s going to space, they root for him to fail,” she said, before pointing out the irony: in the space world, failure is part of the process.

Gutfeld agreed and got personal: “I host the number one late-night show. But I’ve been fired three times. Failure is how you get better.”

The panel saved some of their sharpest barbs for Michael Steele, mocking his political record and the fact that he once chaired the RNC but now critiques innovation from the sidelines.

“If Michael Steele were a rocket, he’d crash on the launchpad,” Gutfeld deadpanned. “Meanwhile, Musk is building ships that will go to Mars.”

The segment ended with a rallying cry: “Let’s all buy Teslas,” Gutfeld said. “Even if you don’t want an electric car—buy one just to push back against this nonsense.”

With his trademark mix of humor and fire, Gutfeld made one thing clear: Elon Musk isn’t the problem. The problem is a culture that mocks ambition, celebrates failure—not to learn from—but to tear others down.