Comedian and TV personality Joe Rogan says he supports Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president in this fall's election.
“He’s the only person who makes sense to me,” Rogan said on Thursday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “He doesn’t attack people, he attacks actions and ideas, but he’s more rational and intelligent. I mean, the guy was an environmental lawyer and he cleaned up the East River. He’s a legitimate guy.”
Rogan described Kennedy as a straight man, in contrast to the propaganda produced by Democrats and Republicans. “This is politics,” Rogan said in an Aug. 8 podcast. “They do it on the left, they do it on the right. They trick you, they manipulate you, they push narratives — and the only person who doesn’t do that is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.”
Both Rogan and Kennedy are outspoken skeptics of the efficacy of vaccines, and COVID-19 vaccines in particular. Spotify, which has previously exclusively hosted Rogan’s podcast, has faced backlash over the podcast host’s dissemination of misinformation about COVID. “Before COVID, I would have told you that vaccines are the most important invention in human history,” Rogan said in his recent Netflix comedy special. “After COVID, I was like, ‘I don’t think we went to the moon. I think Michelle Obama has a penis. I think Pizzagate is real. I think there are live energy weapons in Antarctica.’ Just kidding — I don’t think Michelle Obama has a penis, but I believe all this other bullshit.”
Of course, Rogan doesn’t think Robert Kennedy Jr. can win the election. On his show last week, Rogan said he “can see” Vice President Kamala Harris defeating Donald Trump. “I say that because she can,” Rogan said. “I’m not saying that because I think she can do it, and I’m not saying that because I want her to do it. I’m just being honest. I can see her winning.”
Kennedy is running as an independent candidate in the 2024 US presidential election. He currently has about 5 percent support in a national poll average compiled by the New York Times, down from 8 percent last month. This week, he admitted that he once dumped a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park and staged it to make it look like the animal had been hit by a bicycle. Earlier this year, news emerged that Kennedy said in a 2012 deposition that a doctor told him that a glitch in his brain scans was caused by “a worm that got into my brain and ate part of it and then died.”
Kennedy posted a video endorsing Rogan, saying, “From one 'legit' man to another, thank you @JoeRogan for always putting substance first.”
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