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 3-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.
“That’s so nice. And he doesn’t do that,” he added. “He’s not a person that does endorsements, but he did an endorsement. So I just want to say Joe Rogan, Elon Musk and Megyn [Kelly], thank you very much.”
Rogan previously endorsed liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders in 2020.
During the current election cycle, he said he was “a fan” of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before the independent candidate dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump.
“He’s the only one that makes sense to me. He doesn’t attack people. He attacks actions and ideas. He’s much more reasonable and intelligent,” Rogan had said of RFK Jr.
He later clarified that his statements of support weren’t an official endorsement after drawing the ire of Trump supporters and Trump himself.
“I’m not the guy to get political information from,” Rogan had said.
Rogan’s interview with the Republican nominee has racked up more than 45 million views on YouTube as of late Monday.
Rogan’s podcast which routinely claims the number one spot on Spotify’s top podcasts chart has an overwhelmingly male audience.
