President-elect Donald Trump’s potential to humanize himself on podcasts with candor and quips is extensively credited for having helped win him again the White Home in 2024.
For the reason that election, each Republicans and Democrats have analyzed why Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris. One key issue that commentators throughout the political spectrum can agree on is that podcast interviews appeared to have an effect on the election greater than movie star endorsements or liberal legacy media.
The info seems to again this up, because the Poynter Institute famous that some have even dubbed 2024 the “podcast election,” as each Trump and Harris made a number of appearances on applications that attain particular, massive audiences.
Whereas Harris’ journey to the podcast circuit ranged from appearances on “Membership Shay Shay,” hosted by former NFL participant Shannon Sharpe, to the favored “Name Her Daddy” podcast, hosted by former Barstool character Alex Cooper, Trump got here out on prime. His option to lean into podcasts, notably male-oriented ones, paid off with Gen Z males and millennials. The Fox Information Voter Survey revealed earlier this month discovered that males aged 18-44 supported Trump at 53% in comparison with Vice President Kamala Harris’ 45%.
Trump’s interview with Joe Rogan was extensively credited with serving to him attain extra youthful, male voters, who went for him in droves.
A Kamala Harris aide’s interview with Semafor after the election included a telling comment concerning the waning affect of legacy retailers.
“There’s simply no worth — with respect to my colleagues within the mainstream press — in a common election, to talking to the New York Occasions or talking to the Washington Publish, as a result of these [readers] are already with us,” deputy marketing campaign supervisor Rob Flaherty mentioned.
From coining “the weave” to joking a couple of failed try on his life, Trump’s podcasting tour in 2024 included a number of memorable moments and demonstrated the rising affect of the medium.
Trump tells Rogan concerning the ‘greatest mistake’ of his first time period and having the ‘perspective of a comic’
Trump’s late-October marathon look on “The Joe Rogan Expertise” has been seen over 53 million occasions on YouTube alone and is believed to have been a turning level within the election. Rogan, identified for drawing uncooked and off-the cuff commentary from his visitors, didn’t disappoint when he interviewed Trump.
“The largest mistake,” Trump mentioned of his first presidential time period, was that “I picked a couple of those who I should not have picked,” citing “neocons or dangerous individuals or disloyal individuals.” One particular instance Trump recalled was White Home Nationwide Safety adviser John Bolton, whom he fired in 2019. Trump mentioned Bolton was helpful as a risk to make different nations suppose, “Man, Trump’s going to go to conflict with us,” however argued, “He was with Bush once they went stupidly into the Center East. They need to have by no means achieved it. I used to say it as a civilian, so I at all times obtained extra publicity than different individuals.”
A side-by-side of president-elect Donald Trump and Joe Rogan. (Getty Pictures)
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Trump then expressed his marvel at how he by some means will get extra publicity than others, inviting Rogan to recommend why.
“I might positively inform you,” Rogan replied and laughed. “You’ve mentioned numerous wild s—.”
“Perhaps,” Trump replied with a smile. Trump later went on to elucidate, “, it’s humorous. You want at the very least the perspective of a comic whenever you’re doing this enterprise, this can be a very harmful enterprise.”
Lengthy after the interview, Rogan marveled to later visitors at Trump’s “potential to simply hold going” of their roughly 3-hour podcast interview with out a lot as a rest room break. He went on to endorse Trump on the eve of the election.
Trump cash ‘the weave’ on ‘Flagrant’ podcast, cracks up comedians with Biden jab
Trump appeared on the “Flagrant” podcast hosted by stand-up comedians similar to Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, however managed to have them cracking up all through the interview.
Within the interview, Trump slapped President Biden with a backhanded praise.
“He has one potential that I haven’t got — he sleeps,” Trump mentioned because the hosts laughed, later marveling at Biden’s potential “to go to sleep whereas on digicam.”
Trump additionally quipped, “Anyone satisfied him he appears good in a washing go well with, and whenever you’re 82, usually bathing fits aren’t going to make you look nice.”
Trump appeared on comic Andrew Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast in the course of the marketing campaign. (FLAGRANT YouTube channel)
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Throughout one other viral second in that very same interview, Trump mentioned, “I don’t ramble,” arguing as a substitute, “I do a factor referred to as the weave,” a way the place he says he can go on a tangent in a dialog after which circle again to the primary level.
“You want a unprecedented reminiscence, as a result of you must come again to the place you began,” he mentioned, boasting because the hosts laughed that he “can go to date right here or there, and I can come again to precisely the place I began.”
Schulz later mirrored on the interview together with his co-hosts that “my response is Trump is successful by a landslide. It isn’t shut anymore,” a pointy departure from his preliminary perception that Trump “don’t obtained an opportunity.’”
On “The Good Idiots,” one other podcast Schulz co-hosts with radio host Charlamagne Tha God, Charlamagne made Schulz crack up by telling him an anecdote about how the podcast was acquired by younger males. Charlamagne advised Schulz {that a} younger Black man he knew, however refused to call, reacted to Schulz’s Trump interview with a shocked, “’Flagrant’ goes to get Trump elected.’”
Schulz burst out laughing, “The interview was hearth, bro, I don’t know what to inform you.”
Trump shreds Harris on Theo Von’s podcast, says Biden was pressured out
Comic and podcaster Theo Von interviewed Trump in August, who accepted the invitation after being inspired to take action by his son, Barron.
This episode of the “This Previous Weekend” podcast has gained 15 million views because it was launched in August. Trump made use of his time to blast not solely Harris, however the Democratic Celebration behind her. On the time, America was nonetheless reeling from Biden relinquishing the nomination below excessive strain from social gathering luminaries like Nancy Pelosi. Von requested Trump for his idea on what occurred.
“It was a coup,” Trump mentioned, later suggesting, “[Chuck] Schumer, Pelosi, and quite a few different individuals — the heads of the Democrat Celebration,” Trump speculated. “They usually did — they threatened him violently, I believe. And he did not need to get out, bear in mind he mentioned, ‘Solely God will get me out?'”
Donald Trump sat for an interview with podcaster Theo Von in late August.
The president-elect additionally took time to criticize Harris, arguing, “She’s the worst vp ever, he’s the worst president ever, a lethal mixture.”
He went on to dub Harris the “worst border czar within the historical past of the world,” to the purpose that there are “a whole lot of hundreds of murderers” in the US.
Trump jokes with WWE’s Undertaker about latest assassination try
In late October, Mark Calaway, greatest often called “The Undertaker” from WWE wrestling, interviewed Trump on his podcast “Six Toes Beneath,” reaching almost 1 million views.
Trump spoke candidly concerning the second assassination try on his life that occurred simply weeks earlier than. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, has been accused of pointing an AK-47 at Trump whereas he was visiting the Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seaside, Fla. Authorities mentioned Secret Service brokers fired at him after seeing the muzzle of his rifle pointing by way of a chain-link fence one gap forward of the place Trump was taking part in.
“I’m standing over a putt,” Trump mentioned as he recalled the incident, earlier than joking, “He might have at the very least let me putt it out, proper?”
Trump spoke to the hosts of the “Six Toes Beneath” podcast.
Trump went on to credit score an “unbelievable lady” who took pictures of the suspect as he fled the scene after exchanging hearth with Secret Service.
“A girl… it might solely be a girl, as a result of males perhaps aren’t good sufficient, proper?” he joked. “A girl sees this man working, he is working throughout the road – now who would do that – it is a pretty busy avenue… and he or she sees him, and he or she mentioned, ‘He is suspicious.’ I see individuals working on a regular basis that do not look so scorching! However she follows him for one block, he will get into the automotive, she stops her automotive, begins taking photos of his license plate and begins taking photos of the kind of automotive it was. It was a no matter, a van of some form, and he or she then takes the images and sends them to the sheriff! Who would do that?”
Trump jokes with Logan Paul, dares Biden to do longform interview like he does
Trump appeared on Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast in early June, the place he talked about matters starting from the conflict in Ukraine to UFO’s, however took the time to particularly knock his Democratic opponent for an absence of interviews.
“He couldn’t do that interview,” he mentioned of Biden, who was nonetheless the Democratic Celebration nominee on the time. “Have you ever requested him questions like this?”
When the hosts mentioned he had not been on their present but, however they’d like to host him, Trump appeared to love the concept, making the hosts chuckle as he mentioned, “I believe he ought to. what likelihood you could have of getting him on? I’d say lower than 1%. In case you did that, I’d truly watch that one, okay? See how lengthy it lasted.”
Trump appeared on Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast in early June.
Paul then requested Trump what he is aware of about UFO’s/UAP’s, and whereas Trump mentioned that he has spoken to respectable pilots who’ve skilled unexplained phenomena, he stays skeptical. That mentioned, one form of alien certainly considerations him.
“I do know there are unlawful aliens which might be on the market,” Trump joked. “However these are those that come by way of the border, we’ve got loads of them. These are those I do know. Once you say ‘aliens,’ I say, ‘Are they unlawful aliens?’”
The video interview reached almost 7 million views on the time of this report.
Fox Information’ Brian Flood, Danielle Wallace, and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
