Just when you thought the shock poll out of Iowa on Saturday would be the last surprise of this election cycle, America’s most influential podcaster, Joe Rogan, conducted an unannounced interview with Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a top surrogate for the Trump campaign, on Monday evening. Although this was not their initial encounter, it was the first time they’ve spoken since Musk’s foray into politics. That it ended with Rogan’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump was secondary to the clear and powerful bond that formed between the pair over their nearly three hour conversation.
The two men agreed on everything from video gaming to diet. But by far, the most crucial was their recognition that the Biden administration has inflicted one fraud after another on the country and that if Kamala Harris prevails on Tuesday, it will be the end of America as we know her.
Afterward, Rogan posted the podcast on X along with the following remarks: “The great and powerful @elonmusk. 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.”
Rogan thanked Musk for buying Twitter and turning it into a free speech platform. He was especially grateful for Musk’s courage in exposing the unholy alliance between the Democratic Party, the FBI, Big Tech, and the legacy media, which worked together to manipulate the free flow of information to voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. These powerful entities abused their powers to achieve a common goal: the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which arguably swayed the outcome of the election. The series of reports that began rolling out in November 2022 were known as “The Twitter Files.”
The two discussed the Biden administration’s war on the First Amendment. Rogan noted that because Musk opened up his platform to free speech, other social media forums, such as Facebook, were forced to relax censorship on theirs as well.
They spoke about the numerous “hoaxes” perpetrated by the Left over the past few years, the most recent one being that Trump called for Liz Cheney to be shot by a firing squad. By simply showing the public the “source materials,” many of these deceptions can be stopped in their tracks, Musk said.
They criticized the government’s insistence that the lab leak theory of Covid’s origin was a conspiracy theory, condemned Biden’s vaccine mandate, and agreed that Dr. Fauci was “a monster.”
Musk expressed his concern that if Harris wins the election, “They’ll freaking shut [X] down. There’s no way that the … Kamala regime would allow X to exist.”
Rogan asked Musk if there were actually a way to do that. He replied, “They can just sick the DOJ on [us], you know, and say like … they’ve had this whole thing about hate speech, misinformation, whatever. Except they’re the ones pushing the misinformation, but that doesn’t stop them from filing massive lawsuits and using the DOJ.”
Musk said a Harris administration would also take aim at SpaceX. He explained, “The DOJ has been attacking SpaceX, for example, for not hiring asylum seekers even though it isn’t legal for SpaceX to hire anyone who is not a permanent resident of the US. So we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.”
Addressing the saga of “Peanut the Squirrel,” the story that captured America’s attention last week, the subject turned to the government’s abuse of power.
Rogan said, “They’ve done such a job of painting Trump as a monster.” Acknowledging that Trump is not a perfect person, he said that none of us are. The Left “takes the worst things that he’s ever said,” presents them out of context and amplifies them.
Pointing out the Democrats’ hypocrisy, Rogan called out former President Barack Obama, saying, “If Obama was a perfect person, he wouldn’t be lying on stage about the ‘very fine people hoax.'”
They marveled at Trump’s amazing resilience in the face of everything (including abuse of the law) Democrats have done to drive him away from Washington, D.C.
Rogan agreed that most people would have quit. “But he’s so f***in crazy, he’s like, come on, we’re going to war. He digs his f***in heels in and keeps going.”
Blasting the Democrats’ claim that Trump is a threat to democracy, Rogan noted the party had just “install[ed] a candidate without a primary, that’s the least-liked vice president of all-time. … And then used gaslighting and the full force of the media to turn her into the future and hope.” He ridiculed Harris running on change after being in office for four years.
Regarding the Biden administration’s decision to open our southern border, Musk said, These illegals “haven’t just walked across the border, they’ve been flown in airplanes to the swing states.”
“I think the [reason the] left doesn’t want push back on this is because the more attention they get, the more people realize it is true,” he added. “They’re literally flying vast numbers of illegals who are then beholden to the Democrats, staying in the country and getting their friends to vote Democrat.”
Musk sees this election “as a turning point, a fork in the road of destiny that is terribly important.”
He issued a warning: “I think this is the last election. If Trump doesn’t win, this is the last election.”
Musk continued: “There will be no escape. This is it. This is the last chance man. Go out and vote.” Looking directly into the camera, he told voters, “Vote like your life depends on it. Vote like your future depends on it, because it does. This is the last chance.”
Democrats will obviously be dismayed to see the simpatico between these two influential men who are now on the same team – and arrayed against them. And infuriated that shortly after the interview ended, Rogan, who typically shies away from such things, endorsed Trump. Given that Rogan’s podcast reaches millions of viewers each day, he’s a dangerous enemy.
But Rogan is simply the latest prominent Democrat to leave the party behind. Disgusted by the Biden administration’s brazen power grab, many powerful Democrats have already left the party. Recent defections include lawyer and political activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, and billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.
After years of getting away with one incredible hoax after another, Democrats began to think of themselves as invincible. But as time marches on, and more of the truth about their agenda is revealed to the American people, they’re beginning to realize that nothing lasts forever.
The full interview can be viewed below.
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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