They were described as a contributing reason why Donald Trump won the election last year.
Now several of the “guy pods” who openly supported the president.
“I shouldn’t have entered politics,” says the influencer Adin Ross.
The article in brief
• Podd profiles such as Adin Ross, Joe Rogan, Theo von and Andrew Schultz gave Donald Trump a lot of room for the election and have been considered a contributing cause of his victory.
• Ross interviewed Trump, gave him a cyber truck and a Rolex – but now says he regrets his political commitment.
• Theo von protests against being used in propaganda clips about deportations and requires compensation – and that it is removed.
• Joe Rogan has distanced themselves from Trump’s hard expulsions and called them “crazy”.
• Andrew Schultz says Trump did the opposite to everything he promised.
Adin Ross is one of many podcasts in what in the United States is called “The Manosphere”, a loosely defined circle where more extreme elements like Andrew Tate are together with the world’s largest podcast Joe Rogan, whose content is not as controversial.
Most, however, had one thing in common: they supported Donald Trump in the presidential campaign.
But the longer Donald Trump has run his project, the more people have begun to regret his choice. Nine months into his second term of office, even more extreme actors distance from the president.
– I really wish I had not given myself into politics. I don’t think I will ever care about a politician again, says Adin Ross, according to Rolling Stone Magazine.
Ross has repeatedly been suspended from platforms like Twitch because of his hateful plays against gays. Before the election, he urged his listeners to vote for Donald Trump and he interviewed him during the election campaign – when he also gave Trump a Tesla Cybertruck and a Rolex.
Joe Rogan, like comedians Theo von and Andrew Schultz, is much less clearly right -wing political. But everyone opened their pods for Donald Trump to spread completely without questioning – and with more or less pronounced support. But when the Trump administration used von in an advertising clip to throw out migrants without Pardon, von reacted.
– My dad immigrated here from Nicaragua. One of my most valuable possessions is his immigration documents from when he came here – I have them framed, says von in his pod.
– This was just sick. It was really sick.
He has since requested paid for being used in the commercial and demanded that it be removed.
– I know you know my address, so send a check. And take this down – and stay outside your ‘cool’ deportation videos, thank you, he says.
“Crazy that it may happen”
Joe Rogan has been criticizing Donald Trump for several months, mainly in terms of the particular deportations. When hundreds of Venezuelans were sent to a horror prison in El Salvador, completely without legal process, he reacted strongly:
– It’s totally crazy that something like that can even happen. The idea is that we should get rid of the gang members – everyone agrees – but we cannot sound innocent, gay hairdressers over the same comb, he said then and referred to a make -up choir that had a residence permit but was still expelled in the raid.
Rogan later called the Migration Authority ICE’s progress for “crazy”.
Andrew Schultz said before the election that he based his decision on who “gets the most pussy”. It does not seem to have been the right way to go.
“I didn’t vote for any of this,” he said in his pod this summer.
– He does exactly the opposite of everything I voted for. I wanted him to end the wars, now he finances them. I wanted him to reduce expenses, he increases them. It’s like he does the opposite of everything he promised – except to send home migrants, and even there he has turned – which I actually like a little.
