Joe Rogan Falls for Pretend Trump Tweet Concerning the No Kings Protest

Joe Rogan is America’s hottest podcaster, averaging about 20 million listeners per week. However Rogan persistently falls for pretend pictures and movies on-line, even after they’ve been extensively debunked. The most recent instance? Rogan fell for one more pretend tweet on Wednesday that was supposedly from President Donald Trump.

Rogan’s newest episode had company Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, each conservative British political commentators, and the three males talked concerning 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 folks have been being paid to be there and people who weren’t being paid have been simply “geriatrics.”

Rogan additionally claimed that if the protests have been being allowed to occur in any respect that have to be proof Trump couldn’t probably be a king. And that’s when he promoted the pretend tweet he noticed—a publish made to appear to be it was from the president on Reality Social.

“No, he didn’t ship the troops to cease the protests,” stated Rogan. “In reality, he congratulated them on doing an incredible job and he stated I’m nonetheless your president. Tweet’s fucking hilarious. It’s very humorous.” One in all Rogan’s visitor chimed in to say, “yeah, I noticed that,” with fun.

Rogan advised his producer to drag up the tweet, although it appeared clear he was having bother monitoring it down. “Attempt Reality Social,” Rogan advised his producer, who was simply off-screen. “You’ll be able to in all probability discover a picture of it because it was posted in all places.”

The pretend tweet Rogan appeared 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 because of 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, in all probability as a result of he didn’t need to inform Rogan it was pretend. It’s not even a current pretend 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 pretend tweet however acknowledged it was pretend.

Fox Enterprise host Maria Bartiromo shared the pretend publish in June as nicely, 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 concerning the protests throughout his present and claimed they have 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 have been paid to be there, a declare with no foundation in reality. Rogan stated that it “turned a job” for the individuals 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 by some means extra aggressive than the pretend model Rogan highlighted Wednesday. In actuality, Trump shared an AI video on Reality Social exhibiting himself flying a fighter jet and dumping literal shit on protesters.

Rogan shouldn’t be a very vibrant man. However, once more, he has an unlimited viewers within the hundreds of thousands. And he’s at all times falling for pretend shit, whether or not it’s AI movies of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz or tweets about “Jewish tunnels,” sourced to pretend accounts with characters like Dick Stroker.

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