Former President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump and controversial comic Kathy Griffin slammed podcaster Joe Rogan while acknowledging his massive audience and “terrifying” influence via Media Ite.
Mary Trump — host of The Mary Trump Show podcast and a strident Trump critic — interviewed Griffin this week in a video exclusive to her The Good In Us newsletter subscribers.
Griffin — currently on her “My Life on the PTSD-List” tour — mocked Rogan listeners early in the interview for “believing Joe Rogan is the news” and doubled back later to detail his evolution from road comic to hundred-million-dollar podcaster with “terrifying” influence and — as Trump put it — “The IQ of a turnip”:
“KATHY GRIFFIN: Oh, and while I’m just crapping on Joe Rogan. Because why wouldn’t I crap on a guy with a giant audience? But anyway. Well.
MARY TRUMP: (laughs) There you go.
KATHY GRIFFIN: I have to wonder, because when I first met him back in the day, he was a freaking road comic. He had a good act. He was the best of the best. I don’t think he would even say that. But he wasn’t horrible.
And then something happened where he decided to get all like, roided up. And I haven’t seen him in many years, but the last time I saw him, I didn’t even recognize him. And he became a UFC announcer, which is just.
Let’s just take a minute. That’s weird for a comic. I just want to say that’s kind of, we all kind of glossed over that because who in the world could could have thought Joe Rogan would become an extremely powerful voice in politics and an influential voice?
But he has a $100 million a year contract, which has been reported, I’ve read in my newspapers that nobody reads anymore, but it’s maybe 200 million! And I think that has to influence why he wants to cozy up to Alex Jones.
MARY TRUMP: Of course it does.
KATHY GRIFFIN: But that’s so insane. How are you in a room with Alex Jones and thinking this is just somebody with a different opinion? How do you get there?
MARY TRUMP: Disinformation is very powerful and it’s everywhere, especially when you know, we’re all so siloed. So, you know, there’s no competing narrative, there’s nothing challenging. And also people want to hear what they want, what fits in with their beliefs. Yeah. Anyway, yes. The idea that somebody like Joe Rogan, who, you know, has like the IQ of a turnip. (Yeah.) Is so influential is kind of terrifying.”
