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 persistently falls for faux photographs and movies on-line, even after they’ve been extensively debunked. The most recent instance? Rogan fell for an additional faux 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 individuals had been being paid to be there and those that 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 presumably be a king. And that’s when he promoted the faux tweet he noticed—a publish made to appear like it was from the president on Reality Social.

“No, he didn’t ship the troops to cease the protests,” mentioned Rogan. “The truth is, he congratulated them on doing an awesome 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 instructed his producer to tug up the tweet, although it appeared clear he was having hassle monitoring it down. “Attempt 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 faux 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 making an attempt 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 publish, most likely as a result of he didn’t wish to inform Rogan it was faux. It’s not even a current faux 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 faux tweet however acknowledged it was faux.

Fox Enterprise host Maria Bartiromo shared the faux publish in June as properly, although she didn’t realize it wasn’t real. The publish 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 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 “crammed up stadiums” with individuals who had been paid to be there, a declare with no foundation the truth is. Rogan mentioned that it “turned a job” for the folks 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 in some way extra aggressive than the faux 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 isn’t a very shiny man. However, once more, he has an unlimited viewers within the hundreds of thousands. And he’s at all times falling for faux shit, whether or not it’s AI movies of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz or tweets about “Jewish tunnels,” sourced to faux accounts with characters like Dick Stroker.

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