Joe Rogan shares how YouTube’s handling of Donald Trump podcast infuriated Elon Musk: “I’m sure it was a mistake”
Joe Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump is now on X, in addition to Spotify and YouTube. Evidently enough, this came to be as Elon Musk was infuriated with YouTube’s attempts at curtailing the reach of the podcast episode.
During episode #2220 of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the UFC commentator told his guests Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin that people were having trouble searching for the Trump episode on YouTube.
Rogan stated that only short clips from the segment were showing up on the search but not the full episode. The podcaster then proceeded to sarcastically call out the website, suggesting it was probably a “mistake” on their part, before explaining how Elon Musk intervened to get the segment on X, to bolster its reach:
“Well, what’s interesting is something happened. I’m sure it was a mistake at YouTube, where you couldn’t search for it. I’m sure it was a mistake, there is no way that was on purpose [Rogan said comically]… In the meantime Elon [Musk] was furious. So Elon contacted Daniel Ek [CEO] at Spotify and they put it on X as well. So now it’s on X. Now it has way more views.”
