Even Joe Rogan can’t believe that the Trump Administration is trying to regulate free speech: “That’s f***ing crazy”

Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air in most of the United States on Tuesday after his show was preempted last week. That came after the FCC chair Brendan Carr made a direct threat to broadcasters on a podcast about what speech would not be tolerated by the Trump administration, naming the late-night show host specifically.

While it caused an uproar from people on the left, the move by ABC and Disney to pull the Jimmy Kimmel Live show was widely celebrated by many in the MAGA-verse. But also had others on the right like Senator Ted Cruz cautioning “it’s dangerous as hell” for the government to play such a direct role in stiffly free speech

He compared it to the mafia trying to shut someone up. Joe Rogan was also deeply concerned about the government strongarming broadcasters and limiting comedians’ free speech, saying on his podcast that “the globalist lizard people who run the world” think the Trump administration getting ABC and Disnet to shut down Kimmel is “great.”

Joe Rogan cautions MAGA about Jimmy Kimmel affair

Rogan, who has a large following among young men who support Trump, as well warned about the government trying to block what comedians can say, calling the Kimmel situation “f***ing crazy!”

“I definitely don’t think that the government should be involved ever in dictating what a comedian can or cannot say in a monologue. That’s f***ing crazy!” said Rogan.

“The problem is the companies, if they’re being pressured by the government, that’s real, and if people on the right are like ‘Yeah! Go get’em!’ (deep sigh) Oh my god you are crazy. You’re crazy for supporting this,” he continued. “Because this will be used on you.”

“You don’t think they’re, that the f***ing globalist lizard people who run the world aren’t sitting here going, ‘Great what do we got here three years? We’ll wait this out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let them say the government should be involved in censoring people’s speech. Yeah, let’em support that. Let these f***ing dumb***es, because Jimmy Kimmel is a leftist, let these dumb***es think it’s a good idea and we should celebrate.’”

“That’s the most toxic s*** I keep seeing online, ‘Yeah shut him down,’” chimed in Andrew Santino who then asked if Rogan knew Kimmel.

“He’s a good guy. He’s a smart guy. He’s a funny guy,” responded Rogan.

Rogan parses what Jimmy Kimmel has said

Rogan went on to compare past statements from Kimmel that he found problematic to his comments that got his show temporarily suspended. He mentioned Kimmel celebrating when Tucker Carlson got fired, or saying that it was “the right thing to fire Roseanne.”

“A little bit of a problem,” said Rogan.

He also mentioned Kimmel making jokes about the unvaccinated and saying that they shouldn’t get hospital care if there are people who are vaccinated that need that same room.

“I’m unvaccinated,” said Rogan. “And I’m like that’s a f***ed up joke. But I’m not mad at him… It’s just a joke.”

“But, it’s like those things weren’t a problem, but it’s this one thing where he said, it was a low point,” reflected Rogan on how Kimmel was setting up for a joke about Trump. “What he said was not bad. It was inaccurate though (that the accused shooter was a person from the right). But it wasn’t bad. He was just trying to set up this joke of Trump which was good. It was very funny.”

During his monologue on Monday 15 September, the late-night talk show host began by pointing out how commentators and politicians on the right were “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” before pivoting to his punchline about how Trump was grieving the death of Kirk.

He showed a clip of President Trump being asked how he was taking the murder of Kirk, to which he replied, “Very good,” and then directed reporters’ attention to the construction work going on to build his $200 million ballroom at the White House.

“He’s at the fourth stage of grief, construction,” quipped Kimmel.

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