Joe Rogan revealed on the eve of Election Day that he’s backing Donald Trump for president — less than two weeks after interviewing the ex-commander-in-chief on his wildly popular podcast.
The podcaster announced the endorsement on X while promoting his Monday interview with Elon Musk on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
“If it wasn’t for him, we’d be f–ked,” Rogan said of Musk. “He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.”
“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” Rogan wrote.
The nonchalant endorsement comes after the podcast host interviewed the former president in an Oct. 25 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which has an estimated 14.5 million Spotify followers.
Trump suggested Rogan, 57, should back his presidential campaign during the nearly three-hour sit-down.
“He gave me the nicest endorsement,” Trump had said, referring to Musk, who endorsed the 45th president shortly after he was nearly assassinated at his Butler, Pa., rally in July.
“You should do the same thing, Joe, because you cannot be voting for Kamala. Kamala. You’re not a Kamala person. I know you,” Trump told the podcaster.
Rogan in 2022 said he was “not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” but finally gave the Republican his support with less than 24 hours before Election Day.
In his new interview with Musk published Monday, the podcaster admitted that Trump isn’t a “perfect” choice.
“[The Democrats] have done such a job of painting Trump as a monster, you know, they’ve taken the worst things that he’s ever said and [amplified them] and he’s not a perfect person,” Rogan said. “But guess what? No one’s perfect. They don’t exist.”
But Rogan appeared to make the case that Trump was the better option when compared to Vice President Kamala Harris.
“There’s this other narrative that drives me crazy is that [Trump] is going to destroy democracy,” Rogan said before flipping the script. “So in order to destroy democracy, we have to install a president without a primary, we have to have a candidate that is the least liked vice president of all time — the least popular vice president of all time — and then use gaslighting and the full force of the media machine to turn her into the future and hope and she’s going to be change even though she’s the sitting vice president.”
Trump, 78, learned of Rogan’s endorsement at his Pittsburg, Pa., rally Monday night and shared the news with rally-goers.
“I have some more big news now. I’m just getting this right now,” the Republican nominee told his crowd of supporters. “So somebody that’s very, very respected asked me to do his show two weeks ago, and I said, ‘Why not?’”
“And to me, it’s very big because he’s the biggest there is, I guess, in that world by far … And his name is Joe Rogan and he’s never done this before. And it just came over the wires that Joe Rogan just endorsed me,” Trump said.
