Podcasters Joe Rogan And Theo Von Trash Trump On Iran: ‘i Can’t Believe We Went To This War’

Influential podcasters Joe Rogan and Theo Von, some of whom supported President Donald Trump successful nan 2024 election, person expressed their dismay astatine nan war successful Iran.

Von guested connected The Joe Rogan Experience Thursday for a chat of nan conflict successful which nan 2 addressed nan caller history of occidental involution successful Iran and expressed bewilderment astatine Trump’s about-turn, having promised to extremity U.S. engagement successful “forever wars” successful nan Middle East arsenic he campaigned for a return to nan White House.

“What do you deliberation is gonna happen?” Von asked Rogan, a time aft nan president delivered a 20-minute televised nationalist address that offered fewer existent answers connected nan war. “You deliberation we’re gonna beryllium OK?”

“I dream so, of course,” nan big answered. “I don’t know. I’m confused. I can’t judge we went to this war. When we started bombing Iran, I was like, ‘This can’t beryllium true.’”

“And what astir Lebanon?” Von interjected, referring to Israel’s pivot towards attacking its bluish neighbour successful nan midst of Operation Epic Fury.

“And it’s like, conscionable f***ing extremity it. What do you need?”

“Well, they’re trying to supposedly, they’re trying to extremity nan terrorists,” Rogan answered him.

That drew a hollow laughter from Von, who replied: “That’s crazy, though. You’re nan f***ing terrorists! You cognize what I’m saying? Like, if you wanna extremity them, f***ing guidelines successful beforehand of nan f***ing reflector and commencement there.”

Responding to a clip of nan speech connected X (Twitter), wide pundit Mehdi Hassan said: “These 2 men helped Trump and Vance get elected. I’m gladsome they’re saying what they’re saying now but I wish they would ain that.”

Other societal media commentators lambasted nan duo for their past endorsement of nan president, pinch 1 saying they had “bent complete backwards to plaster Trump each complete their shows” during nan campaign.

“Thank you for yet waking up Joe Rogan and Theo Rogan!!!” different wrote.

More evidently MAGA-aligned respondents attacked nan 2 podcasters personally for their perceived disloyalty to Trump, pinch Rogan accused of letting “libertarians warp his mindset” and Von called a “f***ing clown” for opposing nan extremity of stopping Tehran from building a atomic weapon, conscionable 1 of respective justifications nan U.S. and Israel person offered for their airstrikes.

Rogan successful peculiar has expressed much and much skepticism towards Trump complete nan past year, antecedently calling his onslaught connected Iran “insane” and precocious suggesting that Barack Obama did much to statement up nan U.S.-Mexico border against forbidden entrants, a signature rumor for nan Republican.

The president’s Wednesday nighttime reside saw him trim a weary fig arsenic he claimed from a lectern successful nan White House’s main foyer that Operation Epic Fury had “delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories connected nan battlefield.”

He appealed erstwhile again to America’s friends to thief reopen nan Strait of Hormuz, which has caused world lipid prices to soar, dismissed home economical concerns, gave only a vague timeline for nan conflict’s solution – saying it would still return “two aliases 3 weeks” – and repeated strongman rhetoric astir bombing Iran “back to nan Stone Age wherever they belong.”

His reside came conscionable hours aft a caller CNN canvass revealed that astir U.S. citizens person largely soured connected nan war, pinch conscionable 34 percent of respondents voicing support of it.