Trump’s episode of the Joe Rogan Experience has now amassed over 20-million views on YouTube in 20 hours since its release – making it one of the most viral episodes in the popular podcast’s history.
The episode’s massive viewership dwarfs his average audience, which on tops out at around a couple millions views on YouTube. The Trump episode is trending to be one of the show’s most viewed episodes ever.
Trump and Rogan even got more eyes than the historically well-watched World Series Game 1 between the Yankees and the Dodgers, which brought in 15.2 million viewers. Game 1 was the most-watched World Series opener since 2017.
JRE’s most popular episode ever featured Elon Musk smoking a joint, in 2018. That amassed 69-million views in the years since that viral moment.
The blockbuster Trump interview was wide-ranging and lasted three-hours – covering topics like UFOs, assassination attempts, nuclear energy, beached whales, and all matters politics.
Earlier this week, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign announced that she would not appear on America’s most popular podcast due to scheduling conflicts, Reuters reported.
Harris did make time for Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast earlier this month.That episode of the popular sex-centric show has garnered 687 thousand views on YouTube in the three weeks since it’s been up.
In the interview released yesterday, Trump said Harris couldn’t handle speaking extemporaneously for an extended time with Rogan.
“Can you imagine Kamala doing this show? She’d be laying on the floor,” Trump riffed, “If she did this kind of interview with you, I hope she does, because it would be a mess. She’d be laying on the floor Comatose. She’d be saying, ‘Call in the medics.’”
Rogan pushed back against the Republican candidate.
“I could imagine her doing this show. She was supposed to do it. And she might still do it. And I hope she does. I will talk to her like a human being. I would try to have a conversation with her,” Rogan said.
Since the episode’s release, Democrat supporters have been encouraging the Vice President to go on the show.
That includes former presidential and mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, who took to X to write, “I still think Kamala Harris should go on Joe Rogan – and it seems like Rogan would welcome it.”
A chorus of anonymous accounts also implored Harris to take the interview.
One such was X user RonDobson14 said in a reply to a Harris post, “Go on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Biggest podcast audience out there — and trump looked and sounded ridiculous last night.
Rogan, in a clip from after the Trump interview, said that Harris has not said “no” to him about a potential interview.
“People keep saying she said ‘no’. I said I would have a conversation with her like a human being. That’s literally all I wanna do. I don’t even give a f–k about all the stuff she’s talked about about policies and all these different things. We know her positions. Like, who are you? Who are you?”
The much anticipated interview between Rogan and the former president happened after years of resistance from the host.
“Once they shot you I was like “he’s gotta come in here. It’s all about timing. I think our timing is perfect,” Rogan told Trump as an explanation as to why he had a change of heart.
