Joe Rogan claims a ‘media psy-op’ is answerable for folks having a damaging view of Trump | EUROtoday

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Joe Rogan has claimed {that a} “media psy-op” is answerable for making a damaging picture of Donald Trump that has “distorted” folks’s perceptions of the president-elect.

The MMA commentator and fashionable podcast host famous an obvious shift in media remedy of the President-elect relationship to a time earlier than his first presidential time period.

“The Joe Rogan Experience” is likely one of the world’s hottest podcasts, with a listenership of roughly 11 million per episode. Rogan is seen as having been one of many key gamers within the 2024 election, having made a last-minute endorsement of Trump.

Rogan has beforehand spoken out concerning the lack of credibility of so-called legacy media, TV broadcasters and different conventional publication platforms, which, he says, has led to an alienation of lifelong liberal voters.

Speaking on an episode of his podcast on Thursday, Rogan mentioned the abrupt shift in tone towards Trump, noting prior episodes of The View and a 2000 endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, who had advised him he would make candidate for president.

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“What we saw is the greatest media psy-op in history,” he said. “What you’re seeing with Trump, no matter his flaws, is an enormous concentrated psy-op. They’ve distorted who he’s to the purpose the place most individuals assume that manner. Most folks assume that manner. They’ve had narratives.”

The term “psy-op” is an abbreviated version of “psychological operation” – a military operation usually aimed at influencing the enemy’s state of mind through non-combative means.

Rogan went on to highlight comments about illegal immigrants made by Trump’s former presidential challenger Hillary Clinton in 2008, which he described as “wild Maga-type s***.”

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“2008 Hillary Clinton was extra MAGA than Trump,” he mentioned. “But how about that? More MAGA than Trump. It’s all a f****** phantasm. It’s all a f****** phantasm. All of them, when handy, have mentioned the very same issues.”

Rogan then argued that the 2024 election was the first in which legacy media had been overshadowed by alternate outlets, including podcasts such as his own.

“They had management of the media up till now. This election was the primary time they didn’t actually have management of the media anymore,” Rogan argued. “Because of us, due to podcasts. Because of social media, due to X.”