Joe Rogan has addressed rumors that his podcast episode interviewing Republican candidate Donald Trump was censored by YouTube.
The former president sat down with Rogan for a three-hour episode of The Joe Rogan Show, which was released on Friday, October 25. But the episode was not initially listed on YouTube, meaning the episode could only be shared through a direct link and did not come up in search results on the website.
Rogan wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on October 26: “There is no issue with YouTube censoring the Trump episode. It was just supposed to go live on both Spotify and YouTube at the same time and there was a glitch in Spotify’s upload system and so we delisted the YouTube link until it’s fixed. It should be fine now.”

However, several days after Rogan said there was “no issue” with the video listing, he posted the entire episode on X for his listeners, writing: “Since there’s an issue with searching for this episode on YouTube here is the full podcast with Trump.”
Rogan also reposted a post by David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of software company Basecamp and racing driver, who wrote: “Tried to find the Rogan/Trump interview on YouTube but no matter what I search, it’s not coming up. Would be beyond bonkers if they’re actively trying to suppress it. Must be a glitch, right?” His post included a video of Rogan-Trump clips appearing in YouTube’s search results, but not showing the full episode of the podcast.
“For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t appear prominently,” YouTube said in a statement seen by Variety. “Short excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, but we know it was frustrating for users looking to find the full video. We’ve worked to resolve this and viewers will begin seeing the full podcast in more YouTube search results soon.”