Joe Rogan Falls for Faux Trump Tweet In regards to the No Kings Protest

Joe Rogan is America’s hottest podcaster, averaging about 20 million listeners per week. However Rogan constantly falls for pretend photographs and movies on-line, even after they’ve been extensively debunked. The newest instance? Rogan fell for an additional pretend tweet on Wednesday that was supposedly from President Donald Trump.

Rogan’s newest episode had visitors Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, each conservative British political commentators, and the three males talked in regards to the No Kings protests that occurred Oct. 18. The demonstrations noticed hundreds of thousands of individuals take to the streets in opposition to Trump, and Rogan tried to belittle the efforts, insisting that folks had been being paid to be there and people who weren’t being paid had been simply “geriatrics.”

Rogan additionally claimed that if the protests had been being allowed to occur in any respect that have to be proof Trump couldn’t probably be a king. And that’s when he promoted the pretend tweet he noticed—a publish made to seem like it was from the president on Fact Social.

“No, he didn’t ship the troops to cease the protests,” mentioned Rogan. “The truth is, he congratulated them on doing an important job and he mentioned I’m nonetheless your president. Tweet’s fucking hilarious. It’s very humorous.” One in every of Rogan’s visitor chimed in to say, “yeah, I noticed that,” with fun.

Rogan informed his producer to tug up the tweet, although it appeared clear he was having bother monitoring it down. “Attempt Fact Social,” Rogan informed his producer, who was simply off-screen. “You may most likely discover a picture of it because it was posted all over the place.”

The pretend tweet Rogan appeared to be speaking about reads, “A HUGE THANK YOU to all of the ‘No Kings’ protesters yesterday! I used to be very involved a king was making an attempt to take my place, however because of your tireless efforts, I’m STILL YOUR PRESIDENT! Nice job all!!!” However there’s nothing about it that’s actual.

The producer by no means did appear to search out the publish, most likely as a result of he didn’t wish to inform Rogan it was pretend. It’s not even a current pretend tweet. It first began circulating across the first No Kings day on June 14. The screenshot went viral again in June on platforms like X and Instagram. Because the Daily Beast notes, the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. shared the pretend tweet however acknowledged it was pretend.

Fox Enterprise host Maria Bartiromo shared the pretend publish in June as effectively, although she didn’t understand it wasn’t real. The publish appears to have circulated once more over the weekend, although Gizmodo couldn’t discover any instance that went significantly viral of late.

Rogan droned on and on in regards to the protests throughout his present and claimed they had been equivalent to what occurred with Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign. The podcast host insisted that the Harris marketing campaign “stuffed up stadiums” with individuals who had been paid to be there, a declare with no foundation in reality. Rogan mentioned that it “turned a job” for the individuals at Harris rallies and that “shouldn’t be authorized” as a result of it’s “deception.”

Extremely, Trump’s precise commentary on the No Kings protests is one way or the other extra aggressive than the pretend model Rogan highlighted Wednesday. In actuality, Trump shared an AI video on Fact Social exhibiting himself flying a fighter jet and dumping literal shit on protesters.

Rogan is just not a very vivid man. However, once more, he has an infinite viewers within the hundreds of thousands. And he’s all the time falling for pretend shit, whether or not it’s AI movies of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz or tweets about “Jewish tunnels,” sourced to pretend accounts with characters like Dick Stroker.

We’re simply not going to make it as a rustic, are we?