Joe Rogan was astonished that “voting works,” after Donald Trump’s presidential win, he said on the latest episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, that dropped Thursday.
“So turns out, voting works,” he said, “It’s real. As much as we f---ing thought they had it rigged, as much as we thought there were shenanigans and bulls--t and it’s just a puppet show and there’s no way, anybody can buck the system, turns out, voting is still real. At least if it’s too big to rig and clearly [Trump] was too big too rig,” he continued.
The podcast host waited until the day before the election to endorse Trump.
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Rogan said he saw the “signs” that Trump would win but was still surprised at the result. Described his reaction on Election Night, he added, “I was just sitting in front of YouTube watching professional pool on TV going ‘What the f--- is going on?’” He then complained about the media’s “gaslighting” the public on Trump, citing MSNBC host Joy Reid as an example.
“The media gaslit us to the absolute limits of their ability, the absolute limits,” he said. “Joy Reid spent the entire time she was discussing Trump the other day comparing him to Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, talking about a right-wing authoritarian regime as if he had never been president for four years and didn’t behave like any of those things,” Rogan said.
He then went on to praise Trump’s first term in office, saying Reid and others discuss Trump “as if the economy wasn’t booming, as if people weren’t making more money, as if we weren’t involved in any new conflicts overseas, no new wars.”
Rogan also praised lauded Trump for taking on the “hardest job on the planet” when he “started without any knowledge of it.”
Later in the episode he talked about comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s satisfaction after Trump’s win as they watched the results roll in together with other fellow comedians. Rogan said the comedian was thrilled that despite the disparaging joke he made about Puerto Rico at Trump’s New York rally last month, “More Puerto Ricans voted for Trump than ever,” Rogan said mimicking Hinchcliffe’s voice.
Rogan also expressed how excited he was that figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and JD Vance are now attached to Trump this time around.
“We‘ve got a real chance to make real change, this is like one of the first times ever where there’s a real chance to make real tangible change that’s gonna be for the good of everybody,” Rogan said. That is, he added, if Trump can stop going after his critics now that he’s won: “He’s gotta not attack the left, everybody—let ‘em all talk their s--t, but unite.”
