Comic and podcaster Joe Rogan has in the past hosted presidential applicants Bernie Sanders and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast.
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk prompt a spherical of hypothesis this week when he prompt an interview between famous person podcaster Joe Rogan and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump “will occur,” with simply weeks to head earlier than Election Day.
The anticipation for a Trump–Rogan interview took on new power after the monetary weblog and information aggregator ZeroHedge posted a Substack submit calling on Rogan—a comic and martial arts commentator—to ask Trump onto “The Joe Rogan Revel in.”
The submit, written through writer Quoth the Raven, steered Rogan to increase the invitation to Trump earlier than election day on Nov. 5.
Musk answered to the ZeroHedge article in an Oct. 10 submit on his X social media platform, pointing out merely, “It is going to occur.”
Whilst Musk has no explicit decision-making energy over Rogan’s podcast, Rogan’s legitimate X social media profile added to the theory in an Oct. 11 submit, sharing an editorial referencing Musk’s remark the day prior, titled, “Elon Musk makes three-word prophecy about Joe Rogan’s podcast.”
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The X profile for the Joe Rogan podcast additionally shared a submit on Oct. 9, broaching the topic of an interview with Trump.
A Trump–Rogan podcast isn’t with out precedent. Rogan introduced Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) onto his display for an Aug. 6, 2019 episode, all over Sanders’s unsuccessful run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Rogan additionally invited Robert F. Kennedy Jr. onto his podcast this June, whilst Kennedy was once operating as an unbiased presidential candidate. Kennedy has since dropped out of the race and counseled Trump.
Trump is not any stranger to the podcast circuit, together with on displays that aren’t typically geared against politics. The Republican presidential candidate seemed at the “Complete Ship” podcast in April of ultimate 12 months, on an episode of Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast in June of this 12 months, on an episode of comic Theo Von’s “This Previous Weekend” podcast in August, and on an episode of comic Andrew Shulz’s “Flagrant” podcast this week.
Rogan has given some idea to how an interview with Trump would possibly pass. All over an Oct. 8 episode of his podcast, Rogan mentioned “If I communicate to him, my primary query can be what occurs while you get in there?”
Nonetheless, neither Rogan nor his podcast have introduced any explicit plans to interview Trump on the time of e-newsletter. If he intends to interview Trump earlier than the election, he has lower than 4 weeks.
Each main celebration applicants have begun to include the podcast circuit as a brand new technique to enchantment to citizens this election cycle.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, seemed at the “The entire Smoke Podcast” with former skilled basketball avid gamers Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on Sept. 30. She additionally seemed at the courting and tradition podcast “Name Her Daddy,” hosted through Alex Cooper, on Oct. 6. She is about to seem at the “Breakfast Membership” podcast, hosted through Lenard Larry McKelvey, who is going through Charlamagne Tha God, subsequent week.
The Epoch Occasions reached out to The Joe Rogan Revel in, and to the Trump and Harris campaigns for touch upon their upcoming podcast plans, however didn’t obtain a reaction through press time.
