President-elect Donald Trump’s capacity to humanize himself on podcasts with candor and quips is broadly 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 superstar 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 packages that attain particular, giant 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 printed 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 broadly 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 normal election, to talking to the New York Instances or talking to the Washington Submit, as a result of these [readers] are already with us,” deputy marketing campaign supervisor Rob Flaherty stated.
From coining “the weave” to joking a few 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 ‘angle 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, recognized for drawing uncooked and off-the cuff commentary from his visitors, didn’t disappoint when he interviewed Trump.
“The largest mistake,” Trump stated of his first presidential time period, was that “I picked a couple of people who I should not have picked,” citing “neocons or dangerous folks or disloyal folks.” One particular instance Trump recalled was White Home Nationwide Safety adviser John Bolton, whom he fired in 2019. Trump stated Bolton was helpful as a menace to make different nations suppose, “Man, Trump’s going to go to struggle with us,” however argued, “He was with Bush after they went stupidly into the Center East. They need to have by no means carried out it. I used to say it as a civilian, so I at all times acquired extra publicity than different folks.”
A side-by-side of president-elect Donald Trump and Joe Rogan. (Getty Photographs)
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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 let you know,” Rogan replied and laughed. “You’ve stated numerous wild s—.”
“Possibly,” Trump replied with a smile. Trump later went on to clarify, “You realize, it’s humorous. You want no less than the angle of a comic whenever you’re doing this enterprise, it is a very harmful enterprise.”
Lengthy after the interview, Rogan marveled to later visitors at Trump’s “capacity to only preserve 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 corresponding 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 capacity that I haven’t got — he sleeps,” Trump stated because the hosts laughed, later marveling at Biden’s capacity “to go to sleep whereas on digicam.”
Trump additionally quipped, “Someone satisfied him he appears good in a showering go well with, and whenever you’re 82, sometimes bathing fits aren’t going to make you look nice.”
Trump appeared on comic Andrew Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast through the marketing campaign. (FLAGRANT YouTube channel)
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Throughout one other viral second in that very same interview, Trump stated, “I don’t ramble,” arguing as a substitute, “I do a factor known as the weave,” a way the place he says he can go on a tangent in a dialog after which circle again to the principle level.
“You want a rare reminiscence, as a result of you need to come again to the place you began,” he stated, boasting because the hosts laughed that he “can go thus far right here or there, and I can come again to precisely the place I began.”
Schulz later mirrored on the interview along with his co-hosts that “my response is Trump is profitable by a landslide. It is not shut anymore,” a pointy departure from his preliminary perception that Trump “don’t acquired 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 obtained 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 fireplace, bro, I don’t know what to let you know.”
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 Social gathering behind her. On the time, America was nonetheless reeling from Biden relinquishing the nomination beneath excessive stress from social gathering luminaries like Nancy Pelosi. Von requested Trump for his idea on what occurred.
“It was a coup,” Trump stated, later suggesting, “[Chuck] Schumer, Pelosi, and quite a few different folks — the heads of the Democrat Social gathering,” Trump speculated. “They usually did — they threatened him violently, I believe. And he did not need to get out, keep in mind he stated, ‘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 vice chairman 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 bunch of hundreds of murderers” in america.
Trump jokes with WWE’s Undertaker about latest assassination try
In late October, Mark Calaway, greatest generally known as “The Undertaker” from WWE wrestling, interviewed Trump on his podcast “Six Toes Beneath,” reaching practically 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 Seashore, Fla. Authorities stated 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 enjoying.
“I’m standing over a putt,” Trump stated as he recalled the incident, earlier than joking, “He might have no less than 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 fireplace with Secret Service.
“A lady… it might solely be a girl, as a result of males possibly aren’t good sufficient, proper?” he joked. “A lady sees this man operating, he is operating throughout the road – now who would do that – it is a pretty busy road… and she or he sees him, and she or he stated, ‘He is suspicious.’ I see folks operating on a regular basis that do not look so sizzling! However she follows him for one block, he will get into the automobile, she stops her automobile, begins taking footage of his license plate and begins taking footage of the kind of automobile it was. It was a no matter, a van of some type, and she or he 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 struggle 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 stated of Biden, who was nonetheless the Democratic Social gathering nominee on the time. “Have you ever requested him questions like this?”
When the hosts stated he had not been on their present but, however they might like to host him, Trump appeared to love the concept, making the hosts chuckle as he stated, “I believe he ought to. You realize what likelihood you’ve got of getting him on? I’d say lower than 1%. In the event 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.
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Paul then requested Trump what he is aware of about UFO’s/UAP’s, and whereas Trump stated that he has spoken to respectable pilots who’ve skilled unexplained phenomena, he stays skeptical. That stated, one sort of alien certainly issues him.
“I do know there are unlawful aliens which can be on the market,” Trump joked. “However these are those that come by way of the border, now we have loads of them. These are those I do know. While you say ‘aliens,’ I say, ‘Are they unlawful aliens?’”
The video interview reached practically 7 million views on the time of this report.
Fox Information’ Brian Flood, Danielle Wallace, and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
