https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/08/09/trump-lashes-out-at-joe-rogan-for-backing-rfk-jr/Joe Rogan has drawn the ire of former President Donald Trump after the controversial host of the nation’s most-listened-to podcast offered his support for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a move that comes as pollsters suggest Kennedy could pull votes away from Trump at the ballot box.
On Thursday's episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience," the podcaster said Kennedy is the only candidate who "makes sense to me" and said he felt Kennedy was the only candidate who was not trying to "gaslight" or "manipulate" voters.
On Friday, Rogan said his comments weren't "an endorsement" but that he likes RFK Jr. as a person "and I really appreciate the way he discusses things with civility and intelligence."
On Friday, Trump lashed out on Truth Social, the social media site he owns, asking "It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024” (Rogan has worked as a commentator for UFC and Trump has ties to the organization as a close friend of President Dana White, who introduced him at this year’s Republican National Convention).
Rogan’s podcast had 14.5 million followers on Spotify as of March and is broadly associated with conservative viewpoints, but the host’s personal political beliefs have sometimes been hard to pin down—he endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries and then said he would "rather vote for Trump than Biden" after Sanders lost the Democratic nomination.
