WATCH: Jim Cramer claims US needs 'propagandist' for Covid messaging

During a Tuesday episode of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, co-host Jim Cramer stunned his fellow hosts into silence as he went on a tirade applauding China’s Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccine propaganda.

The comments came in relation to a Covid-19 lockdown implemented in Shanghai, with guests in the city’s Disney park being trapped inside unless they can produce a negative test result. 

Cramer said that he didn’t see any issue with sudden lockdowns, stating that he was able to get his PCR test results back within a span of hours, "so I don’t think it’s wrong."

"Let’s just go back over, I think chief propagandist, I call that person a dissembler, so to speak. But they have a narrative in which just says basically you can conquer Covid by just being locked down, and this has to change the narrative," Cramer continued.

"What is even better is homegrown mRNA, which I’m told is simply that they managed to get the intellectual property, stole it, which is good, and I say good because it’s better to have mRNA than not," Cramer said.

He added, "Let’s just say they appropriated it. What do you do if you tell people the way to beat it is no vaccine and now you have a vaccine? So I think what you need is a propagandist."

"Outside of the state infrastructure," one of the co-hosts chimed in, to which Cramer said "exactly."

"But I think when you think of propaganda, we think about other regimes that we didn’t really appreciate," Cramer added.

Cramer’s comments were followed by an awkward silence by his co-hosts.

When the screen cut away to stock market numbers, Cramer told a third host, who had been silent during Cramer’s moments, "you're like, silent."

"I am silent. I’m just thinking about those poor people stuck at Disney, Shanghai Disney," the co-host said, who added that there are worse places to be stuck.