Has Joe Rogan fully soured on Trump's presidency?

"Joe Rogan's comparison of US immigration raids to Gestapo operations, made during a podcast episode earlier this week, has sparked speculation about whether the wildly popular podcaster, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, has fully soured on Trump's presidency and what that might say of the millions of mainly young men who listen to Rogan's show. Rogan's views, as expressed in the podcast discussion, were more complicated than the Gestapo remark taken alone might make them seem."

"But it is also because of a perception that the everyman Rogan, whose views do not map neatly onto either major party, is an avatar for millions of politically fluid, vaguely centrist Americans a weathervane whose shifts might, like a groundhog emerging from his burrow, predict looming changes in the ideological weather. As Ben Burgis, a leftwing writer and academic, recently put it: Rogan is America's most famous swing voter."

"Many heads in the political and media worlds turned when Rogan asked during an episode of his show released on Tuesday: Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to? The remark happened during a nearly three-hour conversation with Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, in which he and Rogan had been discussing the death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs E"

Joe Rogan compared US immigration raids to Gestapo operations during a podcast episode and voiced more measured skepticism about ICE raids beyond that remark. Rogan endorsed Donald Trump in 2024 after supporting Bernie Sanders in 2020. The Joe Rogan Experience is the largest podcast in the United States and reaches millions, mainly young men. Rogan's endorsements and public positions are tracked as influential and sometimes treated like political endorsements. Many observers view Rogan as an avatar for politically fluid, vaguely centrist Americans whose shifts may indicate broader changes in public opinion on immigration and related policies.

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