JD Vance responds to Joe Rogan’s takedown of ‘unintelligent’ MAGA voters

Vice President J.D. Vance dismissed podcaster and longtime Trump supporter-turned-critic Joe Rogan’s declare that MAGA supporters are “dorks.”

On Saturday’s episode of “The Benny Show,” conservative commentator Benny Johnson requested Vance to reply to Rogan’s remarks, by which the previous “Fear Factor” host labeled MAGA supporters “uninteresting, unintelligent people” and “dorks.”

Vance laughed off the characterization, reinforcing his help for the motion’s base whereas rejecting Rogan’s critique.

“I think we have many, many fewer dorks than the far left, but everybody’s got some dorks,” Vance stated. “We love our dorks. We love our cool kids. We love anybody who wants to save the country.”

The response comes after Rogan said Thursday on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which is probably the most listened to podcast within the U.S., in accordance to Spotify, that MAGA has misplaced its focus.

“That phrase sucks … Make America Great Again, and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of f**king dorks because a lot of them are dorks,” he said.

“So much of them are these actually bizarre, f**king uninteresting, unintelligent folks that have gotten one thing they cling to, and there is a lot of individuals which can be simply actual real patriots, they usually’re all lumped into this one group, and you bought to settle for the dorks, too? F** that.”

Rogan, who initially endorsed Trump within the 2024 election, started distancing himself from the president late final yr. Rather than totally backing Trump’s insurance policies, he began publicly difficult key elements of the administration’s agenda, together with immigration enforcement, the war with Iran, and the dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

He particularly criticized the aggressiveness of immigration raids, saying they usually focused individuals with out critical legal information and referred to as the state of affairs extra advanced than merely rounding up migrants. Rogan even questioned whether or not the U.S. was turning into overly militarized in its enforcement techniques.

On final week’s podcast, Rogan criticized Trump’s military actions towards Iran.

“It just seems so insane based on what he ran on,” Rogan instructed impartial journalist Michael Shellenberger on his March 17 present. “I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right? 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.”

Back on “The Benny Show,” Vance fired again at Rogan after he claimed that former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been “better at deporting illegals” than Trump.

“Joe is wrong on this. I’m going to text Joe, because that is definitely wrong,” Vance instructed Johnson.