Rogan Blames Media 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' for Assassination Attempts on Trump

Podcaster Joe Rogan discussed multiple attempts on President Donald Trump’s life with Rep. Tim Burchett on Thursday. He blamed the media’s "Trump Derangement Syndrome" in part for the attacks.

The latest purported attempt came at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. It followed a series of incidents dating back to the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024. Some skeptics still question the first assassination attempt.

"There's a lot of people running around out there saying that that first Trump assassination was a setup, and that it was a hoax, and that Trump did it to try to get people to be more sympathetic to him," Rogan said. "Anybody who says that doesn't know anything about guns."

A bullet grazed Trump’s ear after he turned his head to look at a chart on immigration. Rogan ridiculed the notion that Trump would stage such a close call. "There is not a person on Earth that could nick your ear at 140 yards, reliably," he said.

Burchett called the security failures at the first attempt a deliberate "capitulation," not a mere breakdown. "If Tim Burchett sneaks into the back of a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert and gets close to the stage, that's a ‘breakdown,’" he said. What happened in Butler was "a complete capitulation."

"They put Trump out there and there's people that don't like him," Burchett said. "You can say what you want to about programming and things, I just think it's out there. I think it is a reality and I think we better — people had better wake up."

Rogan accused the media of radicalizing busy people who lack time to verify facts. "People hate him so much and the narrative in the media, this Trump Derangement narrative that you see in the media is so strong and people are so programmed by it," he said. "And for the average person that has a very involved job, you're working all day, and then you have a family, and you have a life, and you have been – you don't have time to really go into depth about what's real and what's not real."

He added that relentless media claims like the Russia collusion story convinced people Trump was a Russian agent. That fueled desires for someone to kill him.