After Joe Rogan rose to fame as a sitcom and reality show star, his podcast now has so many listeners that he is rich enough that he once turned down $100 million. One of the reasons why Joe Rogan is so successful is that he is happy to anger Taylor Swift’s fans, defend Justin Bieber, or mock Sean “Diddy” Combs. Even though Joe Rogan has so many fans because of his unpredictable nature, however, that doesn’t mean that his listeners are afraid to criticize him.
After an episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast was released, a clip featuring a member of Joe’s staff who deserves to be paid well went viral. That clip was so bad in a lot of observers’ opinions that even Joe Rogan’s fans called it “genuinely embarrassing.”
Joe Rogan’s Fans Found A Clip Of Him Talking About Joe Biden And Donald Trump “Genuinely Embarrassing”
On December 21st, 2023, an episode of the “JRE MMA Show” which is a spin-off of “The Joe Rogan Experience” was released. As can be heard in the YouTube upload of that podcast episode, Joe Rogan’s guest was the MMA fighter Bo Nickal.
As is often the case with Joe Rogan, he spoke to the MMA fighter about a wide range of topics. One portion of Bo Nickal and Joe Rogan’s conversation that focused on Joe Biden and then incorporated Donald Trump got a lot of attention.
During the podcast episode, Joe Rogan’s comments about Joe Biden and Donald Trump caused a lot of people to call the podcast host out. In fact, even fans of Joe Rogan called the clip of the much-talked-about moment “genuinely embarrassing.”
On December 21st, 2023, someone on the r/JoeRogan subreddit posted the controversial clip from “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
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Bobcat Goldthwait, episode #800 | #10 |
Abby Martin, episode #1316 | #9 |
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W. Kamau Bell, episode #1004 | #7 |
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick, episode #459 | #5 |
Dr. Cornel West, episode #1325 | #4 |
Edward Snowden, episode #1368 | #3 |
Anthony Bourdain, episode #138 | #2 |
Bernie Sanders, episode #1330 | #1 |
The person uploaded the clip without comment, but they gave their post with the footage a very telling title.
This is genuinely embarrassing
Of course, there is no way to know if the person who uploaded the clip is a Joe Rogan fan or hater. However, it seems very clear that Joe Rogan’s fans admitted that the clip was ‘genuinely embarrassing,” since the post received more than 11,000 upvotes.

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As the clip began, Joe Rogan was talking about how people who voted for Joe Biden must be questioning themselves because of his cognitive decline. “There’s people that voted for Biden that are doing it now. They’re like, ‘What did I do? Right. What did I choose?’ You just can’t listen to an interview where he’s saying some of the stuff he says that just makes no sense at all. It’s like you can’t listen to those interviews and feel like you made a good decision.”
In December 2024, the New York Post reported that White House aides worked to hide signs of Joe Biden’s apparent mental decline from the public. Between that and Joe Biden’s infamous performance during his last debate with Donald Trump, most people who previously believed he was suffering a cognitive decline feel vindicated.
Joe Rogan then went on to cite a specific thing that Joe Biden said as being especially ridiculous.
“Hear what he said, like, yesterday or a couple days ago? Mm-mm. He said he’s talking about the Revolutionary War. He’s like, one of the reasons why we lost the Revolutionary War, one of the problems with the Revolutionary War was they didn’t have enough airports.”
In December 2023, there were many people who were speaking out about a lack of faith in Joe Biden’s mental state. However, one of the things that made this clip of Joe Rogan different is that the podcaster was very specific.
In November 2024, an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” with Elon Musk as the guest was released. While commenting on the episode on X/Twitter, Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump. “The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn’t for him we’d be f*****. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast.”
After saying that Joe Biden spoke about planes during the Revolutionary War, Joe Rogan stated that was disqualifying for a President.
Like, pull him. If you had any other job, and you were talking like that, they would go, ‘Hey. You’re done.’
Joe Rogan then took it a step further by stating that Joe Biden shouldn’t be allowed to do anything because he made that plane comment. Joe Rogan also claimed that the media giving Joe Biden a pass on the plane comment was an example of them gaslighting the public. “You might not ever do anything again. It’s insane. The media gaslighting you to protect… It’s just people are so afraid of Trump being in office and Republicans being in office.”

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In December 2023, The Hill published an article about Joe Rogan’s response to the plane comments. That article quoted when Joe Biden brought up planes and the Revolutionary War during a speech.
“Donald Trump when he thinks of climate change, he says hoax. Well, guess what? Speaking of hoaxes, remember what he said about these increasing violent hurricanes and the frequency? He actually said, maybe we should detonate a nuclear bomb over the Atlantic. By the way, the same stable genius who said the biggest problem we had in the Revolutionary War is we didn’t have enough airports.”
As that quote makes clear, Joe Biden brought up planes and the Revolutionary War in the context of mocking Donald Trump. The reason Joe Biden made that joke is, as a YouTube clip shows, Donald Trump spoke about airports during the Revolutionary War during one of his speeches. To be specific, Donald Trump said during a speech that the Continental Army “took over the airports.”
As the clip of Joe Rogan’s podcast showed, the show’s producer, Jamie “Young Jamie” Vernon, revealed the full context to the podcast host. The clip even shows Joe Rogan watching the footage of Donald Trump stating the Continental Army “took over the airports.”
When Joe Rogan thought Joe Biden was the person who spoke about planes and the Revolutionary War, he stated that was disqualifying. However, after Joe Rogan immediately excused Donald Trump making the mistake he previously thought was disqualifying.
Oh, okay. So he f***** up.
The fact that Joe Rogan’s reactions were so wildly different caused many observers to label the podcast host a hypocrite.
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Long before Joe Rogan brought up the plane and the Revolutionary War situation, many people were already talking about it. There was a lot of discussion and mockery in July 2019, after Donald Trump originally made the mistake.

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In July 2019, Donald Trump spoke out about what led to him saying the Continental Army “took over the airports” in a speech.
NBC News published an article in July 2019 that revealed how Donald Trump explained what led to the infamous mistake.
As that article revealed, Donald Trump blamed the much-talked-about comment on technical problems.
“We had a lot of rain. I stood in the rain. The teleprompter went out. It kept going on, and then at the end, it just went out. It went kaput!”
In fairness to Donald Trump, it is easy to imagine how teleprompter problems could result in someone saying something by mistake. After all, Donald Trump was making his speech in front of a huge in-person crowd and with millions of people watching on the internet.