Joe Rogan isn’t buying the media’s excuses anymore — and frankly, millions of Americans aren’t either. During a powerful conversation with Congressman Tim Burchett, Rogan directly called out the mainstream media for helping create the toxic climate surrounding the repeated assassination attempts against President Donald Trump.
The discussion focused heavily on the shocking attempts on Trump’s life, including the now-infamous Butler, Pennsylvania incident in 2024 and the more recent alleged threat tied to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. While some conspiracy-minded commentators bizarrely continue claiming the Butler shooting was somehow “staged,” Rogan absolutely dismantled that theory in seconds.
“There’s a lot of people running around out there saying that first Trump assassination was a setup,” Rogan explained. “Anybody who says that doesn’t know anything about guns.”
And he’s right. Trump survived by mere inches after a bullet grazed his ear instead of hitting his brain — only because he turned his head at the exact moment to look at an immigration chart. Rogan mocked the absurdity of people believing anyone could intentionally make a shot like that from 140 yards away.
“There is not a person on Earth that could nick your ear at 140 yards, reliably,” Rogan said.
In other words, Hollywood fantasies and MSNBC panel discussions don’t exactly qualify as firearms expertise.
Congressman Tim Burchett also delivered a blunt assessment of the catastrophic security failures surrounding the Butler attack. According to Burchett, what happened wasn’t simply a “breakdown” in security — it was a “complete capitulation.”
“If Tim Burchett sneaks into the back of a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert and gets close to the stage, that’s a breakdown,” Burchett joked. “What happened in Butler was a complete capitulation.”
Burchett warned that public hatred toward Trump has been intentionally amplified for years, creating a dangerous environment where unstable individuals feel justified targeting him.
“They put Trump out there and there’s people that don’t like him,” Burchett warned. “People had better wake up.”
Rogan then zeroed in on what many conservatives have argued for nearly a decade: the media’s nonstop “Trump Derangement Syndrome” coverage has radicalized countless Americans who don’t have time to dig through facts for themselves.
“People hate him so much and the narrative in the media is so strong and people are so programmed by it,” Rogan explained.
He pointed directly to years of Russia collusion coverage pushed relentlessly by corporate media outlets — narratives many Americans fully believed after hearing them repeated nonstop day after day.
“You got that Russia collusion stuff shoved down your throat by mainstream media for years,” Rogan said. “So you really believed he’s a terrible person, a Russian agent… so you want someone to kill him.”
That’s the uncomfortable truth the media never wants to admit. When politicians, celebrities, late-night hosts, and cable news personalities spend years portraying one man as an existential threat to democracy, eventually unstable people start taking those messages literally.
And despite everything — the attacks, the investigations, the endless media smears — President Trump keeps moving forward, fighting for secure borders, strong American values, and putting the country first. That resilience is exactly why millions of Americans continue standing firmly behind him no matter how loud the media machine becomes.
