Vice President of the United States JD Vance Joe Rogan claims MAGA supporters are “fools,” admitting “there’s some fools in everyone.” Longtime supporter of Joe Rogan trump card America’s most popular podcast host has recently become one of the president’s most prominent critics.
Vance’s comments come after Rogan appeared on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, in which he claimed MAGA had diverted attention away from the United States.
Rogen made harsh criticism on the show, mentioning Maga Supporters were called “boring, ignorant people” and later called “idiots.”
“It’s such a bad phrase…Make America Great Again, and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of damn fools, because a lot of them are fools,” he said.
On Saturday’s “The Benny Show,” conservative commentator Benny Johnson questioned Vance’s take on Rogan’s comments.
Vance laughed and dismissed the comments while reaffirming his support for movement voters. “I think we have many, many fewer idiots than the far left, but everyone has some idiots. We love our idiots. We love our cool kids. We love anyone who wants to save the country.”
Joe Rogan distances himself from Trump
Rogan initially supported him during the 2024 presidential election and began distancing himself from the president in late 2025.
He began to openly question key elements of the Trump administration’s policies, such as ice Law enforcement, the Iran conflict, and the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein documents.
Rogan has become a prominent critic of ICE’s immigration raids, which he believes are too aggressive, claiming they often target individuals without serious criminal backgrounds while also raising concerns about whether U.S. law enforcement methods are overly militarized.
In a recent episode, Rogan expressed his dissatisfaction with the administration’s military approach in Iran, saying “it seems crazy” compared to Trump’s campaign promises.
“I mean, that’s why a lot of people feel betrayed, right?” Rogan said in a conversation with independent journalist Michael Shellenberger on March 17.
“His campaign slogan was ‘No more wars, an end to these stupid, pointless wars,’ but we couldn’t really clearly define why we were doing this.”
