Joe Rogan Attended Ufc Fights Alongside Trump. Now He Thinks It’s ‘weird’ To Hold Fight At The White House Amid Iran War

Podcaster Joe Rogan, who has attended UFC fights alongside President Donald Trump, has said it’s “weird” to clasp nan mixed martial arts conflict astatine nan White House amid nan Iran war.

Six bouts are expected to beryllium held connected nan White House South Lawn to commemorate America’s 250th day connected June 14, which will besides beryllium Trump’s 80th birthday. UFC Freedom 250’s main arena will beryllium betwixt lightweight champion Ilia Topuria and interim champion Justin Gaethje.

But Rogan is wary that if nan U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran continue, nan UFC fights tin make for an easy target.

On The Joe Rogan Experience Wednesday, governmental commentator Konstantin Kisin asked Rogan, “Are you excited for nan White House card?”

“I’m excited. It sounds crazy. I cognize it’s going to beryllium very precocious information and precocious accent and weird to person a conflict astatine nan White House successful nan mediate of a f***ing war.

“I would dream nan warfare will beryllium sorted retired by June, but rather honestly, I’m not assured that’s going to beryllium nan case. So that’ll beryllium weird — having this very precocious floor plan arena wherever everyone’s successful 1 spot astatine 1 clip correct there,” Rogan replied.

The Trump management has fixed conflicting answers astir erstwhile nan warfare will end. Trump told Axios Wednesday that nan strikes, which began astir 2 weeks ago, will extremity “soon” because location is “practically thing near to target." The U.S. subject said Thursday it has deed astir 6,000 targets successful nan war.

A Quinnipiac University poll taken complete nan play recovered 77 percent of American voters deliberation it is either very apt aliases somewhat apt that location will beryllium a violent onslaught successful nan U.S. because of nan Iran war.

When asked erstwhile they deliberation nan warfare will end, 18 percent deliberation it will return weeks, 32 percent deliberation months and 26 percent deliberation nan conflict will past longer than a year.

Rogan has been friends pinch Trump successful nan past, endorsing him during nan 2024 election and hugging him astatine a UFC conflict soon aft his statesmanlike triumph that November.

But since Trump took office, Rogan has surgery pinch nan president connected respective issues, specified arsenic his sweeping migration crackdown and nan administration’s handling of files related to nan precocious convicted activity offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Rogan spoke retired against nan Iran war connected his podcast earlier successful nan week, saying, “It conscionable seems truthful insane based connected what he ran on.”

“I mean, this is why a batch of group consciousness betrayed, right? He ran connected ‘No much wars, extremity these stupid, senseless wars,’ and past we person 1 that we can’t moreover really intelligibly specify why we did it,” nan podcaster said.

Trump has claimed that Iran posed an “imminent” threat to nan American group because of its “nuclear ambitions” and improvement of long-range missiles.

But 55 percent of American voters do not deliberation Iran posed an imminent threat to nan U.S. earlier nan strikes, according to nan Quinnipiac University poll.