Joe Rogan has once again turned on Donald Trump — this time over the president’s position that Israel has not committed genocide in Gaza.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in 2024, and just one year later, a United Nations commission confirmed in a report that Israel had committed genocide.
‘How could anybody defend that?’
However, Trump would later reject that conclusion, telling reporters, “I don’t think it’s that. They’re in a war.”
On a recent episode of Rogan’s podcast, the host strongly disagreed, declaring he was unsure how anyone could support Israel’s war in Gaza.
“How could anybody defend that?” the 58-year-old asked his guest, actor Tim Robbins. “I don’t even know how many people are dead. You have a complete wipeout of a city — like 90 percent of Gaza is gone.”
More than 75,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, according to data from the Gaza Health Ministry.
In the 2025 report, the United Nations commission noted, “Explicit statements by Israeli civilian and military authorities and the pattern of conduct of the Israeli security forces indicate that the genocidal acts were committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group.”
Joe Rogan claims Donald Trump ‘betrayed’ voters
According to the UFC commentator, in 20 years, it will be a “universally accepted opinion” that Israel conducted genocide in Gaza.
It’s not the first time that Rogan, who endorsed Trump’s second bid for the presidency in 2024, has publicly broken with the president.
Earlier this year, Rogan claimed Trump’s supporters are feeling “betrayed” over the war in Iran, which Trump launched in February.
“It just seems so insane based on what he ran on,” Rogan said, referring to Trump’s previous campaign promise to avoid entering foreign conflicts.
“I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right?” he added. “He ran on ‘no more wars’ — end these stupid, senseless wars — and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it.”
Was Donald Trump ‘tricked’ into attacking Iran?
“It just doesn’t make any sense to me — unless we’re acting on someone else’s interests, like particularly Israel’s interests. … Clearly, Israel wanted this,” Rogan continued.
Weeks later, Rogan suggested Trump had been “tricked” by his team into attacking Iran. On an episode of his podcast, Rogan and his guest, documentarian Andrew Jarecki, discussed an NBC News report that Trump receives a daily video montage briefing featuring just “stuff blowing up.”
“He’s just getting explosions,” Jarecki claimed. “He’s just getting a lot of pictures of explosions. So, he’s saying, you know, ‘We’re destroying [things].’”
Rogan then read aloud part of the report: “‘The montage typically runs for about 2 minutes,’” he said before adding sarcastically, “That’s enough time. That should give you a nuanced perspective on an international war.”
He then continued, “‘[It] has raised concerns amongst those of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.’”
‘Nobody thinks this war is a good idea’
“Of course he’s not!” Rogan raged. “The people that tricked him into doing this in the first place don’t want him to get a full, nuanced perspective of the war. Nobody thinks [this war] is a good idea.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, however, claimed her boss is fully aware of the situation in Iran, saying in a statement, “Anyone who has been present for conversations with President Trump knows he actively seeks and solicits the opinions of everyone in the room and expects full-throated honesty from all of his top advisors.”
