JOE Rogan has revealed he's backing Donald Trump for president successful a bombshell endorsement, conscionable days aft interviewing the Republican strongman.
The podcaster, 57, tweeted his announcement a fewer hours earlier Election Day portion giving a glowing reappraisal of Elon Musk.
While promoting his Monday interrogation with the Tesla mogul, helium said of Musk: “If it wasn’t for him we’d beryllium f****d.
“He makes what I deliberation is the astir compelling lawsuit for Trump you’ll hear, and I hold with him each measurement of the way.”
“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” the podcaster wrote.
In 2022, Rogan said helium was “not a Trump protagonist successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form”.
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But little than 24 hours earlier the 2024 Election Day, helium yet gave the Republican campaigner his support.
Rogan admitted that Trump isn’t a “perfect” prime successful his caller interrogation with Elon Musk published connected Monday.
The podcaster said: “[The Democrats] person done specified a occupation of coating Trump arsenic a monster, you know, they’ve taken the worst things that he’s ever said and [amplified them] and he’s not a cleanable person.
“But conjecture what? No one’s perfect. They don’t exist.”
The podcast big went connected to suggest that Trump was the amended enactment erstwhile compared to Vice President Kamala Harris, arsenic the brace are cervix and cervix successful their nail-biting contention to the White House.
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Rogan continued: “There’s this different communicative that drives maine brainsick is that [Trump] is going to destruct democracy.
“So successful bid to destruct democracy, we person to instal a president without a primary, we person to person a campaigner that is the slightest liked vice president of each clip — the slightest fashionable vice president of each clip — and past usage gaslighting and the afloat unit of the media instrumentality to crook her into the aboriginal and anticipation and she’s going to beryllium alteration adjacent though she’s the sitting vice president.”
Learning of Rogan's endorsement astatine his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania rally connected Monday night, 78-year-old Trump shared the quality with the crowd.
He said: “I person immoderate much large quality now. I’m conscionable getting this close now.
“So idiosyncratic that’s very, precise respected asked maine to bash his amusement 2 weeks ago, and I said, ‘Why not?'
“And to me, it’s precise large due to the fact that he’s the biggest determination is, I guess, successful that satellite by acold … And his sanction is Joe Rogan and he’s ne'er done this before. And it conscionable came implicit the wires that Joe Rogan conscionable endorsed me."
Trump continued: “That’s truthful nice. And helium doesn’t bash that.
“He’s not a idiosyncratic that does endorsements, but helium did an endorsement. So I conscionable privation to accidental Joe Rogan, Elon Musk and Megyn [Kelly], convey you precise much.”
Joe Rogan's casual endorsement follows his chat with Trump successful an October occurrence of "The Joe Rogan Experience," which racked up much than 45 cardinal views connected YouTube arsenic of precocious Monday.
During the astir three-hour sit-down, the erstwhile president projected that Rogan enactment his statesmanlike campaign.
"He gave maine the nicest endorsement," Trump added, referring to Musk, who backed the 45th president instantly aft helium was astir killed astatine a rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania, successful July.
“You should bash the aforesaid happening Joe due to the fact that you cannot beryllium voting for Kamala. Kamala. You’re not a Kamala person. I cognize you,” Trump told the podcaster.
Rogan antecedently supported wide Democrat Bernie Sanders successful 2020.
During the existent predetermination season, helium stated that helium was "a fan" of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., earlier the autarkic campaigner dropped retired and endorsed Donald Trump.
"He is the lone 1 that makes consciousness to me. He doesn't onslaught anyone. He criticises behaviours and ideas. "He's overmuch much tenable and intelligent," Rogan remarked of RFK Jr.
Following disapproval from Trump fans and Trump himself, helium stressed that his professions of enactment were not an authoritative endorsement.
"I'm not the feline to get governmental accusation from," Rogan stated.
How bash the US statesmanlike elections work?
BY Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
The Democratic and Republican parties nominate their candidates with a bid of votes - called authorities primaries and caucuses - successful the tally up to the predetermination successful November, held each 4 years.
This gives members the accidental to take who they privation to pb the enactment into an predetermination - this year, Donald Trump and pursuing Biden's resignation, Kamala Harris.
There are besides immoderate autarkic candidates moving for president - arguably the astir well-known was Robert F Kennedy Jr who pulled retired successful August and endorsed Trump.
In US elections the victor is not the campaigner who gets the astir votes crossed the country.
Instead Trump and Harris volition vie to triumph smaller contests held successful each of the 50 states.
Many of the states often ballot the aforesaid mode - but 7 of them - Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona - thin to spell successful either direction.
Each authorities has a fig of electoral assemblage votes - partially based connected colonisation sizes - with a full of 538 crossed the state up for grabs.
The victor is the campaigner that gets 270 oregon more, marking a bulk successful the electoral college.
All but 2 of the US' 50 states - Maine and Nebraska - person a winner-takes-all rule.
Meaning whichever campaigner gets the highest fig of votes wins each of the state's electoral assemblage votes.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton won much votes nationally than Donald Trump - but she inactive mislaid the predetermination due to the fact that of electoral assemblage votes.
The campaigner who volition triumph this predetermination is the 1 who secures 270 oregon much assemblage ballots.
Usually the victor is declared connected the night, but it tin instrumentality days to finalise the result.
In 2020 Joe Biden wasn't officially announced arsenic the president-elect until November 7.
The caller president volition beryllium sworn into bureau successful January connected the steps of the Capitol gathering successful Washington DC.