Joe Rogan soured on Trump — but he’s still spreading the MAHA gospel

(UPDATE: April 18, 2026): Joe Rogan stood directly behind President Trump in the Oval Office on Saturday, appearing alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others as Trump signed an executive order to advance research for psychedelic drugs.

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Ever since ur-podcaster Joe Rogan endorsed President Donald Trump in 2024, just before Trump eked out a narrow victory over then-Vice President Kamala Harris, many punch-drunk Democrats have stumbled around looking for a “liberal Joe Rogan” to appeal to his legion of disaffected younger male fans. So amid the current, broader trend of bro-casters expressing buyers’ remorse about their Trump support two years ago, Rogan’s souring on Trump stands out. 

On “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the most popular podcaster in America has slammed Trump over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ brutal tactics, even comparing them to the Nazi gestapo. He accused the administration of “trying to gaslight” the public with its lack of transparency over the Epstein files, and he said “a lot of people feel betrayed” by Trump launching a war on Iran despite their somewhat delusional projections that he was the “no new wars” candidate. 

Yet even as Rogan has discovered regrets about Trump, he has not extended that critical thinking to one of the primary forces that drew Rogan into Trump’s political orbit in the first place: anti-vaccine crank Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., health and human services secretary.

In August 2024, Rogan declared himself a “fan” of Kennedy, who, at the time, was running for president as an independent on a science-averse “Make America Healthy Again” platform. The podc aster praised the environmental lawyer as “much more reasonable and intelligent” than the rest of the field and lauded Kennedy’s conspiracy theory-laden book, “The Real Anthony Fauci.” (Backlash from Rogan’s MAGA-leaning fanbase, which previously saw Kennedy as a threat to Trump, led the longtime UFC commentator to sheepishly clarify that his praise of Kennedy’s “civility and intelligence” was “not an endorsement.”)

Kennedy appeared on Rogan’s show in February, pleading with him to return to the MAGA fold. Though the podcaster rejected those entreaties, there is no question, however, that Rogan is still MAHA to his core. 

This week, Rogan tried to connect a friend receiving an mRNA vaccine and then dying of an aggressive cancer shortly thereafter. He said last month that he would not even speak to his former friend, fellow podcaster and one-time “Intellectual Dark Web” cohort Sam Harris, until Harris admitted he was wrong about Covid-19 vaccines being overwhelmingly safe and effective at preventing serious illness (Harris was not wrong). In May 2025, Rogan absurdly estimated that just the Covid vaccine produced by Pfizer probably caused “a conservative range of 470,000 to 600,000” deaths.

The disparity between Rogan’s influence and his critical thinking skills is vast.