The Podcast Bros Will Never Be Able to Wash Away Their Embrace of Trump

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The likes of Joe Rogan are now trying to act as if they didn't work as hard as they could in 2024 to return Donald Trump to power.

By Jim Vorel | November 15, 2026 | 12:11pm Photo by The Joe Rogan ExperienceSplinterJoe RoganCopy to clipboardCopy LinkFacebook RedditBluesky0

Joe Rogan, producer and host of the country's most lamentable and widely consumed podcast, recently had the temerity to mention to his legions of followers that he's not really a fan of American politics as a topic of discussion. Or as he put it just last week: "It's all gross; I hate it. I don't like politics at all."

Well that's certainly interesting, for a guy who for years upon years has booked right-wing political figures on that very podcast, boosting their candidacies wherever possible in between his other interviews with punch-drunk MMA fighters or wild-eyed experts on ancient aliens or cryptids. Odd, how the reticence to discuss politics and distaste with that whole political boondoggle comes in the days directly after Republicans were utterly smashed in the 2026 midterm election, in a blue wave election that delivered strong Democratic majorities in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by Joe Rogan going out of his way to disassociate his personal brand from the stink of rot and failure now clinging to the GOP, but he also can't avoid the topic entirely. On Friday, he finally buckled, admitting in a handful of declaratives just how badly the still Trump-dominated party had screwed up.

Those admissions included criticisms of Trump leading America "into a war that no one wants to be in," as well as accusing the admin of putting "militarized police in the streets wearing masks," as if Rogan and co. hadn't been cheerleaders for Trump's brutal "immigration enforcement" campaign from the start. But these things all caused Rogan to conclude that "they didn't just lose the podcast bros, they lost most of the country."

We live in the stupidest timeline.

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— Josh Spiegel (@mousterpiece.bsky.social) 6:41 PM · Nov 14, 2026

In this case, "most of the country" presumably also includes other manosphere podcast bro titans such as Theo Von or Andrew Schulz, although you wouldn't necessarily know that to listen to their shows since the midterm elections, which have pretty much gone out of their way to avoid any timely political discussion. Both, however, no doubt sensing the way the winds were blowing in the months leading up to the midterm massacre, levied various criticisms against Trump and the administration over topics like the war in Iran or ICE operations in American cities, while ignoring that their tones toward Trump had been welcoming, cordial and full of praise while evangelizing his candidacy to their heavily male audiences in the build-up to the 2024 election. Von has since recorded podcast materials alongside Rogan, with both of them complaining about Trump leading the U.S. into another interminable Middle East conflict in Iran after explicitly running on a platform of "no new wars." Schulz, meanwhile, once boasted that he was voting for Trump in 2024 based on the rationale that Democrats were "not cool," and that he was voting for whichever candidate "gets the most p—y," only to find himself raging a year later against the killings of multiple Americans in Minnesota by federal agents acting with impunity. As Schultz put it after the death of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, slain while trying to help a fellow Minneapolis resident, "All of them, Trump and all the cronies, put out collective statements that immediately blamed an American citizen that was exercising his First and Second Amendment rights."

Podcaster Andrew Schulz, who voted for Trump in 2024, is now calling out the White House's response to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as "f**king disgusting."

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— NOTICE News (@noticenews.com) 9:54 AM · Jan 31, 2026

Seems like maybe you shouldn't have worked so hard to evangelize his candidacy, then, or simply believed him when Trump repeatedly promised to up the brutality of his first term's wielding of federal immigration agents? Never doubt the ability of the American Podcast Bro to act like they're suddenly discovering new information when they hear from a guest what everyone else on the planet has known for a decade or more. The likes of Joe Rogan can be told about the Trump administration's wanton corruption for years, and then Rogan hosts a recently resigned Make America Healthy Again figure from the Department of Health and Human Services, and is beside himself in horror over the thought that no one in the administration actually cares about the things they're pretending to care about, and are simply ransacking their posts for personal profit.

CALLEY MEANS: I think he had severe poor advice from people who treated him like a baby

BRENNAN: The president's staff treats him like a baby?

MEANS: Of course!

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 11:19 AM · Nov 8, 2026

Of course, some other male-centric podcast figures are simply electing to go down with the ship, insisting, for instance, that the Republican thrashing in the midterm elections was the result of the Trump agenda not being embraced enough by the party, and suggesting that by hewing even farther to the right, that the movement will somehow reverse the crippling demographic desertion it experienced in the midterms, where male voters aged 18-29 swung more than 30 points to the left. I can only assume that this is what a person like influencer Myron Gaines (real name Amrou Fudl, a descendent of Sudanese immigrants) is trying to say when he releases a truly insane spiel on social media, claiming that if the GOP wants to win in 2028 it will embrace even harsher immigration platforms and focus solely on winning the hearts and minds of white people. Just to reiterate, the following quotes come from a Sudanese-American podcaster performing under a pseudonym, who is not white: "NO MORE ostracizing young white men or men in general. We incentivize masculinity, leadership. No more feminization, no more shaming men out of politics, boardrooms, and public life. Men built this country and they are not the enemy. Stop advertising minorities and immigrants as the face of America."

Truly, it's jaw-dropping to think that there does still exist a segment of the population who looks at the actions the Trump administration has taken in his two years back in power, and thinks that the reason it was just repudiated at the ballot box is because it hasn't gone far enough. At least the likes of Joe Rogan, or Theo Von, or Andrew Schulz are savvy enough to be able to stick a finger out the window and detect which way the wind is blowing, which is why they're all now trying to rewrite the history of how they lent their considerable clout to Trump in 2024, and reveled in their ability to affect the outcome at the time. Now, on the other hand, someone like Joe Rogan actually makes statements where he downplays or bemoans his own influence, suggesting that the people who would follow his instruction-leading to years of headlines demanding Democrats get "their own Joe Rogan"-are in fact weak-minded idiots. As Rogan put it: "It's a sickness of our society that people take our opinions so importantly."

Truly, Joe. Given the damage you seem to realize your crappy opinions have wrought, have you considered … no longer broadcasting those opinions to the idiots you believe are your biggest fans? Seems like that might be the most useful thing you could do for the American people at this point.