Joe Rogan called 79-year-old President Trump a “brat” and revealed his strange texting habits in his latest podcast.
On Wednesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience — Spotify’s top podcast for the fifth year in a row — Rogan offered a surprisingly different take on the president, sharing anecdotes that painted him in an unexpected light.
“It makes the text bigger, like ‘The United States is RESPECTED again’ – all caps – and it makes the text bigger. It’s a little ridiculous,” the host told his guest, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The two men discussed their views on the president, with whom they both maintain friendly relations.
“He’s a strange guy,” Rogan told Huang, sharing that the president often texts or calls him “out of the blue.”
Huang has previously been called a “friend” and a “smart man” by the president, while Rogan endorsed Trump a day before the 2024 election – a move that many commentators said could have tipped the scales in the president’s favor.
“The Trump face-off, President Trump, is very different,” Huang said, describing him as a surprising guy.
In response, Rogan admitted that much of the attention on the president has been about “negative narratives,” but he also acknowledged that “there are a lot of things he does” that he shouldn’t, including telling a reporter to “shut up his pig.”
The incident discussed by the podcaster, which he said he found “objectively funny,” involved Trump pointing the finger at Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey and telling her to be “a quiet, quiet pig” after she asked a follow-up question about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I wish he wouldn’t do that,” Rogan said of the incident, adding, “but other than that, he’s an interesting guy.”
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.
Rogan previously criticized Trump for his about-face on releasing the Epstein files, which the president, after months of pretending they didn’t exist, later said he would release by signing into law.
The president, who Rogan said can behave like a “79-year-old child,” has, despite his deteriorating physical and cognitive health, been compared to a child on other podcasts this week.
