Joe Rogan endorses Donald Trump for 2024 US presidential election

Podcaster Joe Rogan has put his cards on the table one day out from the US election by declaring his endorsement.

Podcaster Joe Rogan has endorsed Donald Trump for president as he dropped his latest episode with another major backer of the Republican candidate, Elon Musk.

With just one day until Americans vote on their next leader, Rogan declared his support of Mr Trump in what could be a significant boost for the former president’s hopes of re-election.

“The great and powerful @elonmusk,” he wrote on Musk’s platform X, formerly Twitter.

“If it wasn’t for him we’d be f***ed. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.

“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump.

“Enjoy the podcast.”

Joe Rogan interviewing Donald Trump on his podcast last week. Picture: YouTube

Tesla chief Musk has become a vocal proponent of Mr Trump and is apparently set to be part of the MAGA figurehead’s administration if he gets back into office.

The billionaire has appeared on stage at Trump rallies wearing his ‘dark MAGA’ hat and vowed he could cut $2 trillion in government spending via an audit of departments.

Rogan’s official endorsement of Mr Trump comes a week after the Republican appeared on a three-hour episode the Joe Rogan Experience, which attracts tens of millions of listeners.

The controversial mixed martial arts commentator is particularly popular with young men, a demographic his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris is struggling to win over.

Joe Rogan’s show attracts tens of millions of listens. Picture: YouTube

A recent study by Edison Research found 80 per cent of Rogan’s listeners were male and more than half (51 per cent) were aged 18 to 34.

Of those 35 per cent don’t align with the two major parties, with 32 per cent Republican and 27 per cent Democrat aligned.

A video of Rogan’s interview with Mr Trump has been viewed, at least in part, 20 million times on X.

Democrat Kamala Harris has enjoyed the backing of global superstars like musicians Taylor Swift and Beyonce, NBA legend LeBron James and actor George Clooney.

During the interview with Musk, Rogan and his guest spoke at length about perceived censorship from the left and “lies” being spread about Mr Trump.

“They done such a job as painting Trump as a monster,” Rogan said.

“They’ve taken the worst things he’s ever done and amplified them

“And he’s not a perfect person, but no one is perfect.”

Rogan earlier thanked Musk, the world’s richest person, for buying Twitter and claimed he had “changed the course of history” at a time when a path of “censorship and control” had been laid out.

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has become one of Mr Trump’s most high-profile backers. Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP

Musk went on to claim an administration led by Ms Harris would “shut down” X, as the duo began chatting about

“There’s no way a Kamala public regime would allow X to exist,” he claimed.

“They can sick the DOJ (Department of Justice) … they’ve had this whole thing about hate speech, misinformation whatever, except they’re the ones pushing this misinformation.

“But that doesn’t stop them from filing massive lawsuits and using the DOJ.”

They went on to speak about “hoaxes” allegedly being pushed by the Democratic Party and news organisations, including referring to the coverage of Mr Trump’s recent comments about former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Ms Cheney, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, has publicly supported Ms Harris for president.

At a town hall event in Glendale, Arizona last week with ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Mr Trump called Ms Cheney a “radical war hawk” and “very dumb”.

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” he said.

“Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Elon Musk jumps on stage as he joins former US president Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Picture: Jim Watson/AFP

Musk attempted to qualify these comments as: “All Trump was saying was Liz Cheney would be much less of a war mongerer, because she’s a huge warmongerer just like her dad, if she had to go to the front lines and fight herself.”

Rogan interjected: “And yet they’re saying that he’s saying ‘she should be shot’.”

“Yes, which is completely a total lie,” Musk replied. “But I had tonnes of people call me this weekend saying ‘Oh Trump says he’s gonna put Liz Cheney in a firing squad’.

“Like that is an outrageous lie. And legacy media ran with that lie big time.”

Rogan said he could not understand the current state of “the left” as someone who grew up identifying with that side of politics.

“I was on the left until like three years ago,” Musk said. “It’s not the left anymore.

“We want to maximise personal liberty. We want to be kind to people … but it’s very important to have personal freedom and a merit based society.

“And the left wants to oppress your freedoms, particularly your freedom of speech, and have a non-merit based society with race-based and sex-based preferences.”