Podcaster Joe Rogan recently revealed that President Donald Trump often sends him text messages out of the blue, and ridiculed his style as childish.
That's according to a Thursday article in The Daily Beast, which reported that Rogan said the president texts like a "79 year-old kid" while interviewing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on his podcast. He further described him as "an odd guy."
"He makes the text go big, like ‘USA is RESPECTED again’ — all caps — and it makes the text enlarge," Rogan said. "It’s kind of ridiculous."
Huang laughed at Rogan's anecdote, but went on to say that Trump was "surprising" in person. The Nvidia CEO has found common ground with the Trump administration on the matter of regulating artificial intelligence (AI), with Huang's company manufacturing a bulk of the chips that power AI globally. Both Trump and Huang have publicly opposed state-level efforts to regulate AI.
"The one-on-one Trump, President Trump, is very different," Huang told Rogan.
Rogan, who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, went on to say that "there's a lot of things [Trump] does" that he shouldn't, and listed the example of Trump calling a female reporter "piggy" who asked him a question about the Epstein files.
“I wish he hadn’t done that,” Rogan said. “But other than that, he’s an interesting guy.”
Rogan's interview with Huang was a notable shift from the podcaster's previous adversarial attitude toward the administration's resistance toward releasing the Department of Justice's remaining evidence pertaining to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein. Rogan said Trump dragging his feet on releasing the Epstein files was his "line in the sand," and that the administration was attempting to "gaslight" Americans by walking back his previous rhetoric about full transparency when it came to Epstein.
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