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

Podcast host Joe Rogan said many unexpected sources have personally thanked him for his support of President-elect Trump in the eleventh hour before his election victory.

In the aftermath of the election, in which Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote, many have spoken about the power of podcasts in influencing the election. voices of young men across multiple racial groups to support Trump.

The host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” spoke Wednesday about how much backlash he received for his criticism of Harris.

“A lot of what people say, they say because they don’t want people to attack them. They say it because they think if they say it, it will cleanse them, they will be okay,” Rogan said. “If you say you support ‘x’ – maybe you don’t 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 appreciate or praise you.”

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Rogan then said that many creatives and groups associated with past liberal movements were silent Trump supporters.

“There’s a lot of them. There’s a lot of people who don’t express their opinions. You know a lot of artists who have contacted me and they look like fucking hippies, man, like artists, like musicians, comedians who thanked me for supporting Trump because they can’t do it?” he said.

The podcast host continued: “They said they wanted to, 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 this government control of social media, which we would have almost completely had if Elon had not bought Twitter.”

Rogan supported Trump the night before the election, citing his interview with billionaire X owner and Trump backer Elon Musk that was released that day.

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During his appearance on the podcast, Musk said President Kamala Harris would pull the levers government to close X.

On Wednesday, Rogan argued that the fact that the majority of the media is dominated by one ideology is a “dangerous precedent to set, whether it’s a right-wing or a left-wing government, and that what you see happening in Britain, where people Being jailed for tweets and Facebook posts, it’s fucking crazy.”

‘Mind bending. The whole thing is crazy,” Rogan continued. “And it’s a dangerous path we were on. We were on that path. Trump has vowed to make free speech a very important part of what he stands for, and that this censorship of information must stop and we must stop all government influence over what people have to say.”

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