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Top-rated podcaster Joe Rogan has made his presidential endorsement just hours before the polls open across the country for in-person voting.
Rogan said he’s backing Donald Trump, an endorsement made less than two weeks after the former president sat down for an interview with the podcaster, an event that has garnered well over 45 million views. The endorsement also comes after Vice President Kamala Harris refused an invitation from Rogan to also appear on his show.
“The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f—ked. 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. Enjoy the podcast,” Rogan wrote on the X platform, which Musk bought in 2022 for $44 billion.
Rogan’s post contained a video of a lengthy interview he did with Musk this week.
Trump responded to news of the endorsement during a rally in Pittsburgh, Pa.
“Thank you, Joe. That’s so nice. And he doesn’t do that. He doesn’t do that stuff. And he tends to be a little bit more liberal than some of the people in this room,” Trump said. “I had a lot of fun, he was amazing, and it was a 3-hour interview.”
“He’s not a person that does endorsements, but he just did an endorsement, so I just want to thank Joe Rogan. That’s fantastic,” he added.
WATCH:
🚨 President Trump just learned in real time on stage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that Joe Rogan endorsed him:
“Thank you, Joe! That’s so nice.” https://t.co/DtwDuYIBqc pic.twitter.com/4cVTUiRKZO
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 5, 2024
Trump’s vice presidential pick, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, appeared on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” released Thursday, just days after the former president’s lengthy interview on the show.
Rogan expressed his admiration for Trump following the interview, highlighting the former president’s authenticity and humor. He was particularly impressed by Trump’s ability to maintain focus during a more than three-hour discussion.
“He’s got this ability to just keep going. This is what’s crazy, like the podcast was three hours long. The guy didn’t pee before the podcast. He didn’t pee after the podcast. He just left,” Rogan quipped afterward.
As for Harris, her campaign made some unusual demands of Rogan as preconditions for an interview that he ultimately would not accept.
“They asked if we could go out on Tuesday, but I would have to drive to her house, and they only wanted to do an hour,” Rogan noted on the X platform last week.
“I really believe that the best place to do it is in the studio in Austin,” Rogan wrote on X, which used to be Twitter. “All I really want is to have a nice chat with her and get to know her as a person.” He added: “I really hope we can make it happen.”
Joe Rogan refuses Kamala Harris’ conditions for podcast interview pic.twitter.com/dBoa1yzhCl
— Martin Walsh (@MWalshUS) October 29, 2024
During one segment of his interview with Rogan, Trump told the host that on his first day in the White House, he asked to see the Lincoln bedroom and noticed that there was a “sadness” about it.
“I said to the guys, ‘I want to see the Lincoln Bedroom,’ I had never seen the Lincoln bedroom,” he said.
“And I was standing with my wife and I said, ‘Do you believe it? This is the Lincoln bedroom.’ I mean, it was cool– it was amazing,” the former president said.
“That room was so beautiful to me, much more beautiful than it actually is,” he said before speaking about Lincoln’s son Tad, who died four years after his dad was assassinated and whose picture is in the bedroom.
“He lost his son, and they suffered — the two of them — suffered from melancholia,” he said about the Civil War-era president and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. “They didn’t call it depression. They called it ‘melancholia.’”
