Joe Rogan slams Trump for gaslighting public over Epstein files amid MAGA rift: 'Line in the sand'

Joe Rogan vented his frustration over what he sees as a betrayal by the man once destined to 'drain the swamp'
PUBLISHED JUL 30, 2025
Podcaster Joe Rogan, once a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, delivered a harsh rebuke to the president over Jeffrey Epstein files (YouTube/The Joe Rogan Experience, Getty Images)
Podcaster Joe Rogan, once a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, delivered a harsh rebuke to the president over Jeffrey Epstein files (YouTube/The Joe Rogan Experience, Getty Images)

AUSTIN, TEXAS: Joe Rogan, a longtime fan of Donald Trump, just dropped a truth bomb on the US president.

During a no-holds-barred July 25 episode of 'The Joe Rogan Experience,' the UFC hype man turned podcast king accused Trump of gaslighting his own base over the Jeffrey Epstein case. Sitting across from ex-CIA covert ops specialist Mike Baker, Rogan vented his frustration over what he sees as a betrayal by the man once destined to "drain the swamp."

“This one’s a line in the sand,” Rogan said. “Because this is one where there’s a lot of stuff about, you know, when we thought Trump was going to come in and a lot of things are going to be resolved, going to drain the swamp, going to figure everything out, and when you have this one hardcore line in the sand that everybody had been talking about forever, and then they’re trying to gaslight you on that.”



 

Earlier this month, the Trump DOJ released a memo dismissing Epstein conspiracy theories and declaring the case closed. It also stated there was no "client list" everyone had been talking about. Unsurprisingly, MAGA didn’t take it well, and neither did Rogan.

Joe Rogan questions Jeffrey Epstein suicide, warns public won’t forget

The conversation between Joe Rogan and Miek Baker quickly dove into the infamous footage from Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell, where the financier allegedly died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial in a Manhattan lockup.

“Metadata from raw Epstein prison video shows approximately two minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of the two stitched together clips,” Rogan noted. “The cut starts off at the missing minute.”

Baker dryly replied, “So a guy like that decides, yeah, he’s gonna off himself.”

“These guys that are all involved in this are still, they’ve been around for a long time,” Rogan continued. “And they have this mentality that existed before the Internet, where you could just kind of put stuff out there, and you wouldn’t have all these psycho sleuths out there that are gonna go over everything with a fine-tooth comb, especially guys who are tech wizards who can look at the metadata, and you can figure this kind of stuff out.”

According to Baker, Washington’s usual go-to strategy to delay, deny, and hope the public forgets isn’t going to cut it this time.

“They’ve called the recess on Capitol Hill because they figured by the time they come back in September, everybody will have moved on from this. I think they are wrong,” Baker said.

He added, “This feels like and just looks like that one of those handful of conspiracies, again, you go to JFK or whomever, that’s just gonna hang around.”

Liberals gloat over Joe Rogan's comments

The moment Joe Rogan criticized Donald Trump, liberals came out of the woodwork like moths to a flame.

"People are cynical because they believed the lies Donald has been spouting for years about Democrats and 'elites,' and now that boomerang came right back and hit them in the forehead... boop! Karma hurts," one user posted on X.



 

"Just can’t see Trump for who he is," another wrote.



 

"And all of you look like fools now," someone else snarked.



 

"The ones 'pulling the strings,' Joe, are the ones you helped to elect," read one comment.



 

"Rogan accidentally stumbling into class consciousness between DMT hits and elk meat advertisements," another quipped.



 

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