Joe Rogan: What The F--- Are Trump And Elon Doing? Posting All Day Is Bad For You!
But in his 2024 interview to Donald Trump, Joe Rogan called Elon Musk “one of the smartest people alive.” How is conservative media reacting to the Trump-Elon fight?
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Donald Trump v Elon Musk: “What the f--- are they doing?”
“What the f--- are they doing?”
“I understand he owns Twitter. I think it’s bad for your mental health. I think posting things public all day and arguing with people all day is bad for you.” This is how star podcaster commented how tech billionaire Elon Musk — owner of X, which Rogan referred to as Twitter — has approached his war against US President Donald Trump, during his interview with FBI Director Kash Patel.
We certainly don’t want to add to the many analysis on this very public fight, but Rogan’s latest podcast is worth mentioning.
Rogan and Patel were talking about Musk’s claim about President Trump’s presence in the Jeffrey Epstein files and why US Attorney General Pam Bondi has yet to release them in full.
“What the f--- are they doing?” Rogan commented.
“Jesus Christ, that’s a crazy thing to say. How does he know? Does he know that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files? Or does he have access to the Epstein files?,” Rogan asked the FBI director, adding, “someone should take his phone away.”
“I’m not participating in any of that conversation between Elon and Trump,” responded Patel, who was learning live on air of the statement by the world’s richest man about Trump. “I know my lane, and that ain’t it.”
Patel responded that he didn’t “know how he would” know anything about the contents of the Epstein files, but declined to speak further about the feud.
“You raise a great point,” Patel said about Rogan’s mental health comment. “Half of what we have to respond to is the click army on social media.”
He continued: “And 50% of that plus is bots, but let's take the other 50% of that is just constantly pushing out information to sell t-shirts or subscriptions or whatever.”
Rogan had mentioned Musk only minutes earlier while discussing artificial intelligence and how it can be used to convincingly manipulate video. The podcaster said he’d just recently been speaking with Musk about the subject.
“AI can kind of make anything. You know, which has got to be a bizarre position for you to be in when you’re looking at videos. I mean, I watch Viking videos that look real as fuck. They just make Viking towns!” he said. “I mean, it’s really quite incredible what they’re doing now and it accelerates every month. I was talking to Elon about it and he said, we’re literally blown away by it every week. Every week there’s some new breakthrough.”
How’s conservative media covering this?
“Welcome to the latest edition of The Real Housewives of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” Howard Polskin of TheRighting wrote this morning. “Most right-wing media are siding with The Donald in the epic political divorce.”
The National Review terms the Musk/Trump conflict “just another episode of ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’”
Fox’s resident wit Greg Gutfeld got serious on “The Five” and said we should “give them credit for making their battle transparent,” reports The Gateway Pundit.
And Breitbart's John Nolte attempted to put a positive spin on the spat, claiming that Trump’s counter-attack on Musk upends the narrative that POTUS only cares about the super-rich.
The Free Press describes it as the “breakup of the year.”
Infowars offers a roundup of more than a dozen hilarious memes featuring the two bloviating billionaires at war.
Maybe the only winner in this mega-battle is Joe Biden. After days of dominating the news cycle, nobody is talking about Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin, chronicling the coverup of the ex-president’s cognitive decline.
Elon Musk “tweets 100 times a day”
When in late October 2024, barely two weeks before the US presidential election, Rogan interviewed Donal Trump. A long 3-hour interviewed where the two also discussed Elon Musk.
Musk’s habit of over posting did come up — not as a negative though.
Trump said about him: “So Elon, Elon Musk, I think he said it public. I hope he did because I wouldn't want it to be the one to—but he's a really smart guy and he's a very good guy with computers, right?”
Rogan answered: “He’s one of the smartest people alive.”
Trump: “Anybody that can land that 20 story building, and perfect and boom.”
Rogan: “While he’s doing Starlink. While he’s doing Tesla. While he owns Twitter.”
Trump: “And then he agrees to Starlink.”
Rogan: “And tweets 100 times a day.”
Trump: “He’s an amazing guy.”
Rogan in 2020, “very concerned about the future”
Do you remember Netflix’s The Social Dilemma? The 2020 docu-drama film mainly centered around the voices of former employees at big technology companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Many made it a point to tell us about the utopian intentions behind their involvement in the rise of these companies.
In October 2020, Rogan commented about the movie during an interview, pointing out it made him “very concerned about the future.”
“All of these technologists and all these people that have invented all this stuff that now are very unhappy,” Rogan said. “This could lead to civil war. People are getting more and more divided and it shows in the film how social media has made people far more polarized, far more divided than ever before.
The podcaster continued: “this is a really dangerous part of the reality that we live in today because it's not what we anticipated. I thought that the Internet, and the age of information, and all that we're experiencing right now would bring about an understanding and a nuanced perspective in life in all ways, so you'd be able to see things from other people's perspectives more easily — because it'd be more readily available and it would be more encouraged for you to seek out all this information. But a bunch of factors that happen at the
He went even deeper into it: “there's a divide that comes about because of the way they've engineered these algorithms, which is really disturbing. So whatever you're into, it finds those things and accentuates them because it just wants you to stay on more, it wants you to engage more.”
Not relative, but LA is on fire and CNN is talking about the musk/taco fight. Grrrrrrrrrr!