Vice President JD Vance brushed off manosphere podcaster Joe Rogan’s comment about MAGA followers being “dorks.”
“It becomes a movement of a bunch of fucking dorks because a lot of them are dorks,” Rogan told guest Dave Smith on Thursday’s episode of his podcast. “A lot of them, these really weird, fuckin’ uninteresting, unintelligent people that have got something they cling to — and there’s a lot of people that are just real genuine patriots, and they’re all lumped into this one group and you got to accept the dorks, too? Fuck that!”
Vance dismissed Rogan’s comments in an interview with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that aired Saturday.
“I think we have many, many fewer dorks than the far left, but everybody’s got some dorks. We love our dorks. We love our cool kids. We love anybody who wants to save the country,” Vance told the MAGA mouthpiece, who has been criticized online for being “cringe as fuck” and has referred to Trump as “Daddy.”
The vice president also responded to Rogan’s suggestion that Hillary Clinton’s immigration stance made her “more MAGA than MAGA.”
“I did not see Joe say this. I’m going to text Joe, because that is that is definitely wrong,” Vance said.
Rogan’s criticism of MAGA comes amid an onslaught of White House social media posts that promote the administration’s agenda, particularly the war in Iran, through pop culture, sports, or video game references. A senior White House official called the posts “cringe” and embarrassing in an interview with MS Now published Friday.
Vance himself has also faced cringe allegations, as has Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose workout video with Kid Rock was met with mockery.
Trump jokingly admitted at a Saudi-backed investment conference in Miami Friday that he that he likes to “hang around with losers.”
“It’s a good thing to have a lot of losers. I always like to hang around with losers, actually, ’cause it makes me feel better,” Trump said. “I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.”
