Joe Rogan Says He Repeatedly Rejected Donald Trump As Podcast Guest: “I’m Not Interested In Helping Him”
06.07.2022 - 00:25
/ deadline.com
Donald Trump is not welcome on The Joe Rogan Experience, says the host of the popular podcast — at least not yet. Still, Rogan, an avowed Ron DeSantis supporter, is no friend of Joe Biden’s either.
“By the way, I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” Rogan said Monday during an interview on Lex Fridman’s podcast.
“I’ve had the opportunity to have [Trump] on my show more than once — I’ve said no, every time. I don’t want to help him,” the former Fear Factor host told Fridman. “I’m not interested in helping him.”
So far, Trump has not responded to Rogan’s assertion that the former president and possible 2024 candidate wanted to come on the Experience and reach its massive audience. Trump has also said nothing about being rejected for the guest slot.
“The Trump era is also going to be one of the weirder times,” Rogan said on the Independence Day chat with Fridman, an AI scientist who teaches at MIT. “When people look back historically about the division in this country, he’s such a polarizing figure that so many people felt like they could abandon their own ethics and morals and principles just to attack him and anybody who supports him because he is an existential threat to democracy itself.”
Over the more than 90-minute conversation between Fridman and Rogan, the latter pushed back against his host’s belief that Trump would eventually show up on the Experience. “I don’t know if he would genuinely be there,” Rogan said of Trump as a guest. “You know what I’m saying? He’ll be putting on a performance …and he doesn’t do any drugs,” Rogan laughed, a reference to the use of substances he’s employed in the past with the likes of Elon Musk and Alex Jones.
Offering an honest appraisal of Trump, one-time self-described