Over the past decade, Joe Rogan has become one of the key media figureheads of the Trump movement. But while he may be hailed by a multitude of Trump supporters, yesterday he had a blunt message for them: MAGA is full of “weird” “dorks.”
Rogan’s platform, The Joe Rogan Experience, is the most popular podcast in the world, boasting some 14.5 million followers on Spotify and holding top slots on Apple and Youtube. All told, its massive audience is purported to be 28 times larger than CNN’s primetime viewership. That lends Rogan enormous influence to the point where his election-night endorsement likely played no small part in winning Trump his second presidency.
But lately, Rogan’s feelings toward Trump and his movement seem to be shifting.
Yesterday, for example, in a discussion about MAGA, Rogan had this to say: “That phrase sucks. America is great. Make America greater? I’m down. But Make America Great Again, and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of dorks. A lot of them are these really weird, f-cking uninteresting, unintelligent people who have got something that they cling to.”
The response from his Trump-supporting fans has not been positive.
“So are we ‘deplorable’ now Joe?” posted one. “Turncoat.”
“I will never listen to another comment by you,” wrote another who accused him of accepting Somalian bribes. “Deep state has bought you. Enjoy your fall from hero to zero.”
Rogan’s latest statement on MAGA is not the first suggestion that his views on Trump have evolved.
Earlier this week, he asserted that Hilary Clinton is “more MAGA than MAGA,” claiming, “Her take on the border was like hardcore.”
Two weeks ago, as Trump’s war on Iran ramped up, Rogan said the war was “crazy” and that the president’s supporters had been “betrayed,” arguing, “He ran on no more wars: End these stupid, senseless wars. And then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it.”
In January, following the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent, Rogan questioned, “Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Around the same time, as the world was rocked by the revelations from the Epstein Files, Rogan was straightforward in his assessment: “It looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real, this is all a hoax. This is not a hoax. None of this is good for this administration.”
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