Joe Rogan, during his Wednesday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and deployment of National Guard troops onto the streets of U.S. cities.
Rogan’s moment of clarity came amid a rant about how much he thinks comedian Marc Maron sucks. Rogan was complaining about a recent joke Maron made in which he said people voted for Trump because they wanted to use the “R-word” again.
“That’s a strawman,” Rogan said of the joke, before going on to claim that the real reason people voted for Trump was because they realized “there was a crazy thing happening where the border was wide open.”
“But does that mean that you support everything that they’re doing now, where they’re kicking people out?” said Rogan, who publicly backed Trump’s 2024 campaign. “No! No. The storming into the fucking Home Depot and arresting people? No, that’s not cool either.”
Rogan added: “The military in the street, I think, is a dangerous precedent.”
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Rogan quickly shifted back into peddling right-wing misinformation about the state of cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon.
This wasn’t the first time Rogan slammed Trump’s over-the-top immigration strategy. Earlier this year, the popular podcaster said it was “horrific” that innocent people are getting carelessly swept into deportation raids.
“The thing is, you’ve got to get scared that people who are not criminals are getting like lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons, like that kind of shit,” Rogan said.