President-elect Donald Trump’s inroads weren’t limited to non-white voters as Joe Rogan revealed “a lot of people that don’t speak their mind” were grateful for the podcast host’s endorsement.
Setting the stage for his White House return, the GOP leader carried the vast majority of counties further to the right from 2020 and had an almost across-the-board increase in support among demographics. Included in his gains among black and Hispanic voters, according to Rogan, were a lot of “artists” who’ve remained silent out of fear of leftist reprisals.
“There’s a lot of people that don’t speak their mind,” he said near the end of Wednesday’s episode where he sat with Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice Executive Director Josh Dubin. “Do you know how many artists that have reached out to me that are, like f*cking hippies, man, like artists, like musicians, comedians that thanked me for endorsing Trump because they can’t do it?”
“They said they want to, but they don’t wanna be attacked. They can’t say it. They think the country is going in the wrong direction,” the host continued.
Sharing the clip on X via the End Tribalism in Politics account, Rogan went on to add, “The directions this country is heading shouldn’t be revolutionary. America was founded on freedoms and rights that @realDonaldTrump will steer towards. [Let’s F*cking Go].”
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The direction this country is heading shouldn’t be revolutionary. America was founded on freedoms and rights that @realDonaldTrump will steer towards again. LFG https://t.co/7sIhQTYa9x
— Joe Rogan Podcast (@joeroganhq) November 14, 2024
Continuing the dialogue, the conversation turned to extreme forms of censorship the likes of which had cropped up in the United Kingdom where authorities cracking down on protests stemming from violent crimes and foreign nationals had threatened to extradite Americans for violating their laws on speech.
“This is a dangerous precedent to set,” said Rogan after noting the impact of Elon Musk buying Twitter, “whether it’s a right-wing government or a left-wing government, and that what you see that’s happening in the U.K. where people are being imprisoned for tweets and Facebook posts. It’s f*cking crazy.”
“Mind-bending,” the host echoed Dubin. “The whole thing is nuts. And it’s a dangerous path that we were on. We were on that path. Trump has vowed to have free speech become a very important path of what he’s standing for and that this censoring of information needs to stop and that we need to stop all government influence in what people have to say.”
Before Election Day, Rogan had offered his endorsement of Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris pointing to the arguments of the world’s richest man. Their conversation had also addressed censorship concerns as Musk had said about a lasting advertiser boycott, “I think if Trump wins, we’ll see, you know, probably most of the boycott will life. But if Kamala wins, we’ll see that boycott get stronger and they’ll friggin’ shut [X] down. There’s no way that a Kamala puppet regime would allow X to exist.”
As it happened, many of the companies boycotting the social media platform had, in fact, already begun returning following Trump’s victory.
On the broader issue of suppressed ideas, Rogan had said, “A lot of what people say, they say it because they don’t want people to attack them. They say it because they think that if they say it, it will clear them; they’ll be okay.”
“If you say you support ‘x’ — you might not even support ‘x’ — but if you say support ‘x,’ you’re not going to get attacked, and the right people will leave you alone or agree with you and appreciate you or praise you,” the host went on about the pressure often applied by leftist mobs when confronted with differing opinions.
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