Joe Rogan Falls for Pretend Trump Tweet Concerning the No Kings Protest

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

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

Rogan additionally claimed that if the protests have 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 submit made to appear to be it was from the president on Reality Social.

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

Rogan instructed his producer to drag up the tweet, although it appeared clear he was having hassle monitoring it down. “Strive Reality Social,” Rogan instructed his producer, who was simply off-screen. “You possibly can most likely discover a picture of it because it was posted in all places.”

The pretend tweet Rogan gave the impression 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 attempting to take my place, however due to 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 seek out the submit, most likely as a result of he didn’t need 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 submit in June as nicely, although she didn’t realize it wasn’t real. The submit appears to have circulated once more over the weekend, although Gizmodo couldn’t discover any instance that went notably viral of late.

Rogan droned on and on concerning the protests throughout his present and claimed they have been an identical 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 have been paid to be there, a declare with no foundation in truth. 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 someway extra aggressive than the pretend model Rogan highlighted Wednesday. In actuality, Trump shared an AI video on Reality Social displaying himself flying a fighter jet and dumping literal shit on protesters.

Rogan shouldn’t be a very vivid man. However, once more, he has an unlimited viewers within the tens of millions. 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?