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Joe Rogan says many people in the entertainment industry privately ‘thanked me for supporting Trump’

Joe Rogan says many people in the entertainment industry privately ‘thanked me for supporting Trump’

Podcast host Joe Rogan said many unlikely sources privately thanked him for supporting President-elect Trump at the 11th hour before his election victory.

Following the election, in which Trump won both the electoral college and the popular vote, many people talked about the power of podcasts to influence public opinion. young men’s votes Across multiple racial groups to support Trump.

The “Joe Rogan Experience” host opened up about how much backlash he received for criticizing Harris on Wednesday.

“A lot of the things people say, they say it because they don’t want people to attack them. They say it because they think if they say it, it will absolve them, they’ll be okay,” Rogan said. “If you say you support ‘x’ – you may not even support ‘x’ – but if you say you support ‘x’ you won’t be attacked and the right people will leave you alone or agree with you and admire or praise you.”

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Rogan later said that many creators and groups associated with past liberal movements are silent supporters of Trump.

“There’s a lot of them out there. There’s a lot of people who don’t speak their mind. You know a lot of artists that reach out to me, like fucking hippies, man, like artists, musicians, comedians thanking me for supporting Trump because they can’t do that?” he said.

podcast host He continued: “They said what they wanted, but they don’t want to be attacked. They can’t say it. They think the country is going in the wrong direction. They think government control of social media is something we would do. If it weren’t for Elon buying Twitter, I’d be almost exactly in this situation.”

Rogan endorses Trump the night before the election, referencing an interview with billionaire X owner and Trump supporter Elon Musk that aired that day.

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During his appearance on the podcast, Musk said he would leverage President Kamala Harris’s leverage. government will shut down X.

On Wednesday, Rogan argued that having the majority of the media dominated by a single ideology “is a dangerous precedent to set, whether it’s a right-wing government, whether it’s a left-wing government, and as you can see in the UK, where people come together. Tweets and Facebook posts “It’s crazy to be imprisoned for that.”

“I’m messing with your mind. Everything is crazy,” Rogan continued. “And that was a dangerous path we were on. Trump promised that free speech would become a very important part of what he stood for, that the censorship of information had to stop, and we had to stop, too.” All government influence on what people say.”

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