Donald Trump has said that Joe Rogan will be booed “the next time he enters the UFC Ring” after the podcaster and martial arts commentator praised independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In a post on his Truth Social website, the Republican presidential candidate wrote: “It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024 [Make America Great Again].”
Rogan claimed to be “a fan” of Kennedy during an episode of his The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, adding: “He’s the only one that makes sense to me. He doesn’t attack people; he attacks actions and ideas.” Referring to political figures on both the left and right, Rogan added, “they gaslight you, they manipulate you,” before saying: “The only one who’s not doing that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Rogan’s remarks sparked a furious response from Trump supporters on social media, with X user Catturd, who has over 2.7 million followers on the platform, branding him “absolutely politically dumb” and “the podcast Equivalent of a dumb blonde joke.”
Kennedy thanked Rogan for his remarks on X, writing: “From one ‘legitimate’ guy to another, thank you Joe Rogan for always putting substance first…
“This election is not about left vs. right. It’s about Americans of goodwill coming together to end the tyranny of corruption in our system – so that we once again have a government and economy that works for all people. Let’s do this.”
In an X post on Friday, Rogan said that he had not endorsed Kennedy and praised Trump‘s reaction to the failed assassination bid aimed at him on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The podcaster said: “For the record, this isn’t an endorsement. This is me saying that I like RFKjr as a person, and I really appreciate the way he discusses things with civility and intelligence. I think we could use more of that in this world.
“I also think Trump raising his fist and saying ‘fight!’ after getting shot is one of the most American f****** things of all time.”
Newsweek contacted Joe Biden via social-media direct message and Donald Trump‘s 2024 presidential election campaign by email on Saturday outside of regular business hours.
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Earlier this month, Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of murder after shooting two demonstrators dead during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020, came under sharp criticism from Trump supporters after saying he wouldn’t vote for the former president in November.
In a since-deleted video, shared to X, Rittenhouse said: “Hi, I’m Kyle Rittenhouse, Outreach Director for Texas gun rights. A lot of people are upset that I said that I’m going to be writing in Ron Paul for president of the United States, and that is true, I will be writing in Ron Paul.
“Unfortunately, Donald Trump had bad advisers, making him bad on the Second Amendment, and that is my issue,” Rittenhouse added.
“If you cannot be completely uncompromisable on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you, and I will write somebody else in. We need champions for the Second Amendment or our rights would be eaten away and eroded each day. I support my decision and I have no takebacks.”