JOE Rogan has revealed he’s backing Donald Trump for president in a bombshell endorsement, just days after interviewing the Republican strongman.
The podcaster, 57, tweeted his announcement a few hours before Election Day while giving a glowing review of Elon Musk.
While promoting his Monday interview with the Tesla mogul, he said of Musk: “If it wasn’t for him we’d be f****d.
“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,” the podcaster wrote.
In 2022, Rogan said he was “not a Trump supporter in any way, shape, or form”.
But less than 24 hours before the 2024 Election Day, he finally gave the Republican candidate his support.
Rogan admitted that Trump isn’t a “perfect” choice in his new interview with Elon Musk published on Monday.
The podcaster said: “[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.
“But guess what? No one’s perfect. They don’t exist.”
The podcast host went on to suggest that Trump was the better option when compared to Vice President Kamala Harris, as the pair are neck and neck in their nail-biting race to the White House.
Rogan continued: “There’s this other narrative that drives me crazy is that [Trump] is going to destroy democracy.
“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.”
Learning of Rogan’s endorsement at his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania rally on Monday night, 78-year-old Trump shared the news with the crowd.
He said: “I have some more big news now. I’m just getting this right now.
“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 continued: “That’s so nice. And he doesn’t do that.
“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.”
Joe Rogan’s casual endorsement follows his chat with Trump in an October episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which racked up more than 45 million views on YouTube as of late Monday.
During the nearly three-hour sit-down, the former president proposed that Rogan support his presidential campaign.
“He gave me the nicest endorsement,” Trump added, referring to Musk, who backed the 45th president immediately after he was nearly killed at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, 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 previously supported liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders in 2020.
During the current election season, he stated that he was “a fan” of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., before the independent candidate dropped out and endorsed Donald Trump.
“He is the only one that makes sense to me. He doesn’t attack anyone. He criticises behaviours and ideas. “He’s much more reasonable and intelligent,” Rogan remarked of RFK Jr.
Following criticism from Trump fans and Trump himself, he stressed that his professions of support were not an official endorsement.
“I’m not the guy to get political information from,” Rogan stated.
BY Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
The Democratic and Republican parties nominate their candidates with a series of votes – called state primaries and caucuses – in the run up to the election in November, held every four years.
This gives members the opportunity to choose who they want to lead the party into an election – this year, Donald Trump and following Biden’s resignation, Kamala Harris.
There are also some independent candidates running for president – arguably the most well-known was Robert F Kennedy Jr who pulled out in August and endorsed Trump.
In US elections the winner is not the candidate who gets the most votes across the country.
Instead Trump and Harris will compete to win smaller contests held in each of the 50 states.
Many of the states often vote the same way – but seven of them – Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona – tend to go in either direction.
Each state has a number of electoral college votes – partly based on population sizes – with a total of 538 across the country up for grabs.
The winner is the candidate that gets 270 or more, marking a majority in the electoral college.
All but two of the US’ 50 states – Maine and Nebraska – have a winner-takes-all rule.
Meaning whichever candidate gets the highest number of votes wins all of the state’s electoral college votes.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton won more votes nationally than Donald Trump – but she still lost the election because of electoral college votes.
The candidate who will win this election is the one who secures 270 or more college ballots.
Usually the winner is declared on the night, but it can take days to finalise the result.
In 2020 Joe Biden wasn’t officially announced as the president-elect until November 7.
The new president will be sworn into office in January on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC.
