‘He could be president’: Joe Rogan peddles Hunter Biden as White House contender after viral interview
Joe Rogan, the world’s most listened-to podcaster, has suggested Hunter Biden could follow in former President Joe Biden’s White House footsteps someday.
The 57-year-old podcaster declared that Hunter “could be president” on Wednesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan has more than 20 million subscribers on YouTube, with episodes that regularly surpass 1 million views.
Rogan praised the former president’s son after he gave a viral, three-hour interview to independent journalist Andrew Callaghan, during which he spoke about his struggle with a crack cocaine addiction.
“He could be president,” Rogan said Wednesday. “How about that? He could, no bulls***.”
“Hunter Biden, after all he’s been through, look, his dirty laundry is all out there…He’s smarter than his dad when his dad was young,” Rogan added. “And he was a crackhead.”
Hunter previously detailed his struggle with addiction in his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things. In the interview with Callaghan, he recounted the toll that his addiction took.
“The only difference between crack cocaine and cocaine is sodium bicarbonate and water and heat,” Hunter explained.
“I feel really reluctant to kind of have some euphoric discussion…I don’t want to have the experience of some euphoric recall. That’s how powerful crack cocaine is,” he added.
Hunter went on to caution people against using the drug.
“If you want to completely utterly f*** up your life — you know, I don’t think that anything is necessarily, ‘Oh, you do it once, you’re addicted,’ but about the closest thing that statement could be true would be with crack cocaine,” Hunter said.
Rogan said that Hunter is “a lot smarter than people give him credit for,” citing the recent interview.
“He’s talking, and one of the things he was talking about was why smoking things are so addictive, why smoking cigarettes are so addictive, and the psychology behind it,” Rogan said. “He’s not dumb.”
While Rogan says he doesn’t affiliate with any political party, he is hugely popular with young, conservative men.
Rogan invited President Donald Trump on the show in 2024 for a three-hour interview. He went on to endorse Trump hours before Election Day, which was seen as a major win for the Republican. Rogan went on to attend his inauguration.
