A resurfaced clip from Joe Rogan’s 2020 election night live broadcast is raising fresh questions about his repeated claims of political neutrality, after it emerged that roughly 10 seconds of footage were edited out of the archived version of the broadcast.
The missing segment shows Rogan visibly energized as Texas was called for the Republican ticket, exclaiming, “Oh, Texas went red, b**tch! Whoo!”
The edit went largely unnoticed until a Reddit post in the r/podcastculture community brought it to wider attention, racking up over 11,000 views in just two days.
The timing of the discovery is particularly significant, coming shortly after Rogan used a recent episode of his podcast to describe himself as politically unmoored.
During that conversation with guest Arsenio Hall, Rogan positioned himself as someone who has never found a comfortable home within the American two-party system. “I’m politically homeless. I’ve always been politically homeless for a long time. Neither one of them make any sense to me,” he told Hall.
He went further, expressing frustration with the way partisan identity turns governance into a spectacle of team loyalty. “It’s a team thing. It’s like the Dolphins versus the Raiders. You pick a team and your team rules and the other team sucks.”
Hall, whose parents reportedly held opposing party affiliations, offered his own take on the shifting nature of political labels. “When you deal with Democrat, Republican, you have to attach a year because it’s evolved and changed many times,” he observed.
Rogan also pointed to his past votes for Libertarian candidates as evidence of his independent streak. “I’ve voted libertarian before,” he said. “I did that with Jo Jorgensen. I did that with Gary Johnson. I voted for both of them.”
But for many observers online, the deleted clip from 2020 tells a different story. The Reddit community was swift in its response.
One user wrote, “Joe Rogan was openly supporting Trump over Biden during the 2020 presidential election. He has explicitly stated that he was voting for Trump over Biden. I don’t know why anyone ever was defending him as actually left wing.”
One commenter observed that Rogan appears to be “another right wing grifter who is trying to distance himself from the MAGA movement because he knows he is partially responsible.”
Another quipped that people might have respected his apparent change of heart if he had simply been transparent about it: “Just say you supported him before you knew he was insa ne. Why all the sneaking around?”
The discovery complexity to a narrative Rogan has been carefully crafting in the months since his endorsement of Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election generated significant backlash. Since that endorsement, he has consistently pushed back against characterizations of himself as a partisan figure, insisting that his political outlook is defined by logic rather than loyalty.
