Vice President JD Vance pushed back this week against Joe Rogans portrayal of some MAGA supporters as unintelligent people and dorks, defending the movements base as a broad coalition of Americans determined to save the country.
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Rogans comments came during a Thursday episode of his podcast in a discussion with guest Dave Smith, as reported by The Post Millennial. While conceding that the MAGA movement contains real, genuine patriots, Rogan insisted that it also includes people he views far less favorably.
That phrase sucks . make America great again and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of f*cking dorks because a lot of them are dorks, Rogan said, dismissing the slogan that has galvanized millions of voters. A lot of them are these really weird f*cking uninteresting, unintelligent people that have got something they cling to and theres a lot of people that are just real genuine patriots and theyre all lumped into this one group and you got to accept the dorks, too? F*ck that!
Vance, speaking with conservative commentator Benny Johnson, brushed off Rogans characterization and turned the criticism back on the left. I think we have many, fewer dorks than the far left, but everybodys got some dorks, Vance said. We love our dorks. We love our cool kids. We love anybody who wants to save the country.
Rogan, who has long signaled sympathy for various left-leaning positions, nevertheless endorsed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, a move that underscored growing disillusionment with progressive governance. Yet he has not hesitated to criticize the Trump administration since the president returned to office, and in another episode this week he claimed that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had taken tougher lines on immigration than Trump.
Vance flatly rejected that assertion and indicated he intends to challenge Rogan directly. I did not see Joe say this. Im going to text Joe because that is definitely wrong, he said, calling the podcasters immigration comparison factually off-base.
The numbers from the Obama administration or any other administration they werent doing a tenth of what were doing. So Joe is wrong on this, Vance added. Weve been the best administration in American history at deporting illegal aliens. The problem is we also followed the worst administration at letting them in.
Government data back up the scale of current enforcement, even compared with the much-touted Obama-era removals. In the first year of Obamas second term, 409,849 individuals were deported, while last year more than 605,000 deportations were carried out, according to DHS, underscoring Vances argument that the Trump team is confronting a crisis created by its predecessors rather than retreating from border security.
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