Joe Rogan threw his support behind 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and slammed US politics as a “show that I can’t stop watching.”
The controversial podcaster, 56 backed the 69-year-old Kennedy scion, who is running against President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, on his “Joe Rogan Experience” Wednesday.
“He’s a fascinating guy,” Rogan told his guest, journalist Alex Berenson. “I’d vote for him … I don’t think I’m going to get that opportunity.
“I have a feeling [Democrats] got some rascally tricks up their sleeves to keep him from ever challenging.”
Rogan said the environmental lawyer “really cares about people” and he thinks he’s “a good person.”
Berenson agreed that he “liked” Kennedy, but highlighted that he doesn’t “agree” with the White House hopeful’s views on the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I think he’s right to raise questions about the mRNA’s. I don’t agree with a lot of the details of what he says,” he told Rogan.
Kennedy landed in hot water earlier this year after being filmed at a dinner party in New York City spewing conspiracy theories, claiming the virus was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Jews.
“COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he told a dinner party at Tony’s Di Napoli restaurant on July 15. “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.”
He later did damage control, insisting he has “never uttered a single anti-Semitic word in my life.”
Rogan, who had his own headlines-making moment after spreading anti-COVID-19 vaccine comments, stayed mum after Berenson’s comment, directing their conversation elsewhere.
The podcaster said that the current state of the US “like a show that I can’t stop watching.”
“If I wasn’t personally involved, it wasn’t, you know, something going on in the country that I live in, I would be like: ‘Wow, this show is crazy.’ Is that guy going to make it? Like, what’s going to happen? Is she going to be the president or is Russia gonna nuke us?”
The “she” he likely referred to is Vice President Kamala Harris’ statements earlier this month that she “may have to take over” if the 80-year-old Biden is unable to complete his term in office.