Joe Rogan: "It's not that Trump doesn't have faults. He most certainly has faults, but we all have faults. But they had control of the media and they turned him into something that he wasn't just 10 years ago to them."pic.twitter.com/f0Hj1noLzJ
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) November 9, 2025
As the saying from last decade goes, that (comment) didn't age well.
A disgrace that FOX gives what is basically free political advertising to Trump during an NFL game. https://t.co/svliG7e2ax
— Congressman Brendan Boyle (@RepBrendanBoyle) November 9, 2025
Trump was offered a platform to repeat, and reinforce, some of his go-to lies. He was set up with the non-question "We'd love to hear your thoughts about where we are as a nation, how we're doing." The President replied
Well, we're doing great and recruitments is doing phenomenally and, uh, people have spirit, the stock market hit an all-time high, prices are coming down. We inherited a mess, prices are coming way down, and I'll tell you, our country has over $17 trillion they have invested, which is a record. So we're doing great.
So great that his party, north, south, east, and west, was pummeled on on Election Day. Military recruitment in fact has been on the rise, since before Trump was re-elected. Prices are increasing, not decreasing. And the $17 trillion figure Trump has cited periodically is far larger than the $8.8 trillion claimed in the White House website, which itself is a gross exaggeration. Even the rise in the stock market is shaky, with most economists believing it is built on a foundation of sand, with the artificial intelligence craze leading the way. Things are not "great" or even good.
Nonetheless, the danger is not in what Trump says but that the media generally has been fine with it, notwithstanding Rogan's imagination.
For what seems several years but has been far less, we have heard "Russia. Russia. Russia." as a dismissive reference to the investigation of Donald Trump for the interference by Russia in the 2016 presidential election. Yet, in his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Special Counsel Robert Mueller identified
accounts of dozens of contacts between senior members of the Trump campaign and several Russians, including those who said they were Russian government agents, for the purpose of electing Donald Trump and defeating Hillary Clinton. It includes reports of secret meetings with campaign officials, including two members of the Trump family, which Mueller concludes violate campaign finance laws.
Mueller did not accuse anyone of "collusion" because "collusion" is not a legal term and is not in itself a federal crime.
Moreover, Mueller remarked "(I)f we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment." That sounds a lot like "we suspect he did but proving it beyond a reasonable doubt in court would be uncertain."
Approximately 17 months after the Mueller report was released, the Senate Intelligence Committee- chaired Marco Rubio of Florida- revealed, as explained here
how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives
implementing the influence effort. For instance, the report exposes
interactions and information exchanged between Russian intelligence officer
Konstantin Kilimnik and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. According
to the report, campaign figures “presented attractive targets for foreign
influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities.” (Manafort was
later convicted of tax and bank fraud.)
Yet, Trump would continually refer to the controversy as a "hoax," His acolytes consistently followed suit. As recently as twelve months ago, a statement by the Ohio Senate majority referred to "the same Democrats who pushed the Russia collusion hoax" and claimed- dishonestly- that the Steele dossier "was debunked by the Mueller report." It did no such thing.
And still it goes on. However, broadcast media still allows Republicans of all sort to go on the air, call "Russia, Russia, Russia" a hoax, assert that the Mueller report found there was no collusion, and that the Steele dossier has been debunked.
Only one item in the Steele dossier- a collection of uncorroborated intelligence reports intended to be just that- has been shown to be false. Trump attorney Michael Cohen did not meet in Prague during the 2016 campaign.
And yet, even the august New York Times ran an article in 2021 entitled- inaccurately- "why the discredited dossier does not undercut the Russia investigation." Cut to 2025 and President Trump is blaming Ukraine for defending itself against aggression by Moscow, but somehow the Steele dossier is routinely slammed as "debunked" or "discredited," and the media goes along as if the critic has remarked something as innocuous as "it's hot in Miami in August."
This is not old news or moot. Much of Donald Trump's political success and power stems from his claim that he was cheated out of becoming your, and my, President by Democratic shenanigans, assisted by the media, in 2016. Add to that refusal of the media to label as a "lie" Trump's obviously false statements. And his rapidly declining health (video below from Australian television). Further, there is the conventional wisdom that Mr. Trump was hit by a bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania in July, 2024.
As of this past April, Donald was prescribed two medicines for cholesterol reduction, one for a skin condition, and aspirin.
Well, yes, aspirin, a de facto drug which prolongs bleeding time and inhibits platelet aggregation. And yet, struck by a bullet or a bullet fragment- the FBI's conclusion- the victim did not even require stitches. It is unknown exactly how long he bled because hospital doctors did not issue a statement or hold a news conference, nor was a medical report ever released.
Nonetheless, an AP article nearly two weeks after the crime was entitled "FBI says Trump was indeed struck by bullet during assassination attempt." In the minds of most Americans, that reads "bullet," not "bullet or bullet fragments."
Aware of all that- more likely, not aware of all that- Joe Rogan appears convinced that the media has ceaselessly victimized Donald Trump. This self-delusion, shared by the vast majority of Trump supporters, will continue while Republicans uniformly embrace the President, Democrats don't question the zombie lies, and the media has no incentive to own up to their pro-Trump, pro-GOP bias.
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