Well-liked podcaster Joe Rogan has formally endorsed Donald Trump for president — not that it comes as a lot of a shock.
Rogan introduced his backing of Trump, coming a day earlier than Election Day on Nov. 5, in posting an impromptu episode of podcast with Elon Musk, the mega-billionaire and ardent Trump supporter.
On the podcast, Musk “makes what I feel is probably the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him each step of the best way,” Rogan stated in a put up on X, which is owned by Musk. “For the report, sure, that’s an endorsement of Trump.”
Within the put up on X, Rogan referred to as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX “The good and highly effective @elonmusk” and wrote, “If it wasn’t for him we’d be fucked.” Musk donated about $75 million to America PAC, the pro-Trump group he helped kind this summer time.
”Thanks to your endorsement, Joe Rogan — An important honor!” Trump wrote on X.
Trump appeared on the Oct. 25 episode of Rogan’s podcast, and his working mate JD Vance recorded an episode with the comic/podcaster that was launched Oct. 31. Rogan had stated the marketing campaign of Democratic VP Kamala Harris supplied to make her accessible for an interview, however just for one hour and Rogan would have needed to journey to her as a substitute of recording it at Rogan’s Austin, Texas, studio.
Musk instructed Rogan that if “the Dems win this election, they’ll legalize sufficient illegals to show the swing states, and in every single place can be like California… Vote like your future. relies on it, as a result of it does. That is the final likelihood.”
Musk additionally famous that ladies are “outpacing” males in early voting “by a considerable margin.”
“Males have to get out tomorrow and vote,” Musk stated. “You have to be choosing up all your pals and attending to the polls.”
Musk, sporting an “Occupy Mars” T-shirt, stated Democrats “are doing all of the issues that they’re accusing Trump of doing. The sheer variety of hoaxes that the Democrat celebration is pushing, time and again, is insane… You possibly can’t declare to be good if you happen to’re pushing hoaxes which have been debunked totally. When even Snopes says it’s a hoax, and you continue to push it, just like the ‘effective individuals’ hoax, what the flying fuck?”
Musk was referring to Trump’s remarks in August 2017 during which he stated in regards to the violence between white nationalist teams and “alt-left” protestors in Charlottesville, Va., that there have been “very effective individuals on either side” and stated that there was “blame on either side” for the violence. As famous by fact-checking website Snopes, Trump didn’t explicitly name neo-Nazis and white nationalists “very effective individuals” (and he really stated throughout the identical press convention that “they need to be condemned completely”); Trump stated he was referring to “many individuals in that group aside from neo-Nazis and white nationalists.”
Final month, throughout Rogan’s three-hour dialogue with Trump, the previous president stated his greatest mistake throughout his time within the White Home was hiring “dangerous individuals, or disloyal individuals.” Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election, which he misplaced to President Biden, was “rigged.” When Rogan requested him if he was going to launch proof proving the election was “stolen,” Trump moved on to a different topic.
In an episode of “The Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast just a few days later, Rogan mentioned his constructive impressions of Trump. “The issue with the Trump stuff is simply that the individuals have a look at the inflammatory issues he says, the loopy shit, they usually outline him by that,” Rogan stated. “You even have to recollect, it is a very weird mixture of an entertainer and a businessman… He’s like a comic, man. He says humorous shit.”
Rogan additionally marveled at the truth that Trump didn’t take a rest room break whereas recording the interview. “That is what’s loopy,” Rogan stated. “Just like the podcast was three hours lengthy. The man didn’t pee earlier than the podcast. He didn’t pee after the podcast. He simply left.”
