‘It was courageous’: Aaron Rodgers receives support from U.S. Congress

Aaron Rodgers ruffled some feathers in a recent appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, which he joined as it was being broadcast live from the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp in Latrobe, PA.

Rodgers took some not-so-thinly-veiled shots at former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, who recently pleaded the Fifth over 100 times before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

“You got a pardon, and you’re in front of — and you pleaded [the Fifth] over 100 times?” the four-time MVP said. “What are you scared of, Tony? I thought you were the science. I thought you [were], ‘I am science.’ And you get up there, and you can’t answer a question?”

“I’m pleading the Fifth 😂😂

You’ve gotta be kidding me” ~ @AaronRodgers12 #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/kg3y0uMxxR

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) August 3, 2026

“How much time did the network spend on that?” he continued. “How much time do they spend on my responses every week? On my vaccination status, on Taylor [Swift] and Travis [Kelce’s] wedding? Did they do even a minute? Did they do even a minute on Tony Fauci? No, I bet they didn’t.”

Fauci’s lawyer has since responded to the comments, saying that Rodgers “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” and “should stick to football.”

However, in the aftermath of his comments, the Future Hall of Famer is receiving support from the unlikeliest of places: the U.S. Congress.

“Rodgers, in addition to being the winning quarterback in the Super Bowl for my Green Bay Packers, was smart enough not to take that experimental gene therapy and use ivermectin when he got COVID, apparently,” Ron Johnson, the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, said on Fox.

Ron Johnson: “Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid … unfortunately, more people didn’t follow him. We wouldn’t have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You’ve seen the video reels of this happening in… pic.twitter.com/fbdGsqkMAJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2026

“And so he was smart enough to use his own brains, be suspicious of these experts that totally mishandled the pandemic. So, you know, my hat’s off to Aaron Rodgers. I’ve always appreciated the stance he took. It was courageous within the sports world. Unfortunately, more people didn’t follow him. We wouldn’t have had as many athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead, on the field of play.

“All the newscasters— I mean, you’ve seen the video reels of this happening in 2021. And what always boggled my mind is the news media that can’t figure out what’s happening here. Hey, like infant deaths after vaccines, we’ll just call it SIDS. And we call it SADS, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Completely idiopathic. There’s no explanation here. What could possibly have gone wrong here? Well, what went wrong is the experimental gene therapy in 2021. All of a sudden, you have people just dropping dead. And they’re still covering it up, by the way.”