Joe Rogan’s Donald Trump episode hits 26 million views in first 24 hours

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumppodcast interview with Joe Rogan was viewed more than 26 million times on YouTube in the first 24 hours.

This is currently the most viewed podcast appearance for any candidate in the 2024 presidential campaign and one of the most viewed. The Joe Rogan Experience episodes of history.

Trump sat down with Rogan for a full three-hour podcast episode, discussing topics ranging from UFOs, the supposed effects of wind turbines on the mental health of whales, to Trump’s regrets in office and his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen due to widespread voter fraud.

The Joe Rogan Experience is the most viewed podcast in the world. He has 14.5 million Spotify subscribers and 17.5 million YouTube subscribers. Although Spotify Apple Podcasts do not publish viewership data for individual episodes; views on YouTube suggest this is one of the biggest episodes in the show’s history, and it attracted more viewers than other podcasts participating in the campaign.

Over the podcast’s 15-year history of more than 2,000 episodes, the 10 most-viewed episodes have been viewed between 27 and 68 million times on YouTube, putting the Trump interview outside of that range, according to Rogan fan site JRE Library. in the first 24 hours.

His most-watched episode ever was his September 2018 interview with the tech billionaire. Elon Muskwho endorsed Trump for his 2024 presidential bid. In a show that has been viewed over 68 million times, Tesla owner, famous smoked marijuana and drank whiskey with the owner.

Rogan’s podcast was available exclusively on Spotify from 2020 until earlier this year. Episodes from that time have since been re-uploaded on YouTube, but do not have complete viewership data since their release as they were uploaded to the site retrospectively.

Rogan’s last episode to receive as many views on YouTube as Trump’s interview was in May 2020, when he spoke with a radio host. Alex Jones and comedian Tim Dillon, which has been viewed nearly 28 million times.

Jones is a well-known conspiracy theorist. ordered to pay almost $1 billion to the families of Sandy Hook victims after he spent years smearing them by claiming their children were not murdered but instead were “crisis actors.”

Did Joe Rogan support Donald Trump?

Rogan did not endorse Trump during the interview. Rogan has previously approved Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.who has since suspended his campaign and supported Trump.

On the podcast, Trump praised Rogan, calling him a “charming guy,” and the host praised the candidate’s sense of humor. “One of the great things about you is that you play freely,” Rogan said, telling the former president he thought his impression was mocking the president. Joe Biden it was “funny”.

Rogan said he would be interested in being interviewed by the Democratic presidential candidate. Kamala Harrisbut her campaign has since confirmed that she won’t be joining him on the show before election day.