Based on Media Matters’ March study, the 10 right-leaning online shows or streamers that claim to be nonpolitical and have the largest following across streaming and social media platforms are:

• Joe Rogan’s The Joe Rogan Experience, which self-categorizes as comedy.
• Jordan Peterson’s The Jordan P. Peterson Podcast, which self-categorizes as education.
• Theo Von’s This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, which self-categorizes as comedy.
• The Nelk Boys’ Full Send Podcast, which self-categorizes as comedy interviews.
• Dr. Phil McGraw’s The Dr. Phil Podcast, which self-categorizes as society and culture.
• Patrick Bet-David’s PBD Podcast, which self-categorizes as business.
• Logan Paul’s Impaulsive, which self-categorizes as comedy.
• Asmongold, a video game streamer named Zack Hoyt who also goes by ZackRawrr.
• Lex Fridman’s Lex Fridman Podcast, which self-categorizes as technology.
• JP Sears, who streams a variety of shows while identifying as a comedian.

These online shows have repeatedly discussed key figures, policies, and events of Trump’s administration during the first 100 days of his second term. Much of this commentary praises, promotes, and defends the administration and its policies. Below we list a number of these discussions organized by subject and show/streamer.

Show hosts discussed Kennedy’s nomination and confirmation as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Some of them promoted his policy initiatives around pharmaceutical companies, promoted his book that is critical of Anthony Fauci, and praised the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. One host, Joe Rogan, also dismissed the necessity of vaccines and downplayed the danger of contracting measles.

Joe Rogan

• Host Joe Rogan said “it’s going to be interesting to see what he [Kennedy] uncovers” about vaccines. Rogan claimed that “they used monkey kidney cells as the basis for certain vaccines, not knowing that they were going to infect these vaccines with this SV40 and it causes cancer.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 2/25/25]
• Rogan said that “there's so many hurdles with whatever Bobby Kennedy is going to have to jump through to make real change” and called the “Make America Healthy Again” movement “fascinating.” Rogan then complained that there’s “resistance to fluoride being removed from the drinking water,” adding, “Everybody's saying, ‘Oh, no, we need fluoride for teeth.’ Like, brush your fucking teeth, bitch. Let's not put neurotoxic chemicals in everybody's water.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 1/23/25]
• Rogan downplayed the danger of contracting measles, saying that it’s “an infection that everyone got when I was a kid” and complaining that “they're making it look like everyone's dying from measles.” Rogan said that when he was a kid everyone got measles, and “you'd get sick for a few days, and then you'd be immune for life. … And they're making it look like everyone's dying from measles. Like, no. If you're dying from measles, you're sick. You're already compromised, which is exactly what happened with COVID.” He also explained that he no longer broadly supports vaccines, saying, “If you got ahold of me six years ago and asked me about vaccines, like, they're one of the most important inventions in history. And then you read — have you ever read Dissolving Illusions? … Read that book. All of those diseases had dropped off because of sanitation and nutrition. … They all had dropped off, and then the vaccines come along.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 3/5/25]
• Rogan promoted Kennedy’s book The Real Anthony Fauci, claiming that it details “what pressures were put on these organizations to stifle and completely stop the prescription use of a bunch of different things, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin.” Rogan claimed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, “they stopped any early treatments that weren't the vaccine and that they probably shouldn't have done that, and that a lot of people could have been saved because of that. And that’s true. And that's something that people need to — that's one of the the best aspects of Bobby's book, Bobby Kennedy's book, The Real Anthony Fauci, is like understand like what pressures were put on these organizations to stifle and completely stop the the prescription use of a bunch of different things, hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 2/22/25]
• Rogan again urged his audience to read Kennedy’s book, calling it “incredible.” Rogan said the AIDS crisis was “a whole other ball of wax. And if you want to get into that at another time, folks, just please go read Bobby Kennedy's book, The Real Anthony Fauci. It's incredible. But so, this is another thing. This is more gatekeeping. It's the same kind of thing. This may be in a different way, maybe not to protect the ego, but to protect money.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 2/4/25]

Jordan Peterson

• Host Jordan Peterson agreed with Rebel News founder Ezra Levant that “we know from some lawsuits in the U.S., especially during the pandemic, from the White House, to the FBI, to the CIA, there was so many different government organizations, including to do with health, that were plugged right in to the back end of social media, trying to throttle people even like RFK Jr.” [The Daily Wire, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, 2/27/25]
• Peterson said Democrats are “clueless when it comes to the alternative media” and noted that he has been unable to get Democrats to do interviews with him other than former Democrats Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, saying they are considered “heretical Democrats.” Peterson added that “the thing about the Democrats that is very much worth understanding is all the people who have a voice left or got killed.” [The Daily Wire, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, 4/3/25]

Theo Von

• Host Theo Von said that Kennedy “was a friend of mine before I knew that he was going to run for politics” and said Kennedy has gone from people thinking he’s “crazy” to “getting half of the people to believe him.” Von noted that he “saw him as a reliable, honest friend” and when Kennedy “started running for politics and he was talking about the vaccine and shit and people said, ‘He's fucking crazy,’ right, I mean, people — people that knew him – people that, mutual friends – like, he's crazy. And then he made it all — he made it past ‘I'm crazy’ to getting half of the people to believe him.” [YouTube, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, 2/7/25]
• After Von’s guest comedian Ari Shaffir mentioned a “rumor” that “vaccines made kids gay,” Von said, “We’re going to find out soon if Bobby Kennedy gets in there.” Von also asked his guest, “Do you think they will cure — do you think that being gay will be something that will be eternal or one day that that would be hacked or something, … that they'll be able to hack the genetics?” [YouTube, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, 2/12/25]
• Von mentioned he got pushback for going to Trump’s inauguration, said that “Bobby Kennedy is a friend of mine” and “I’m going to support my fucking friend," and said , “I've never, ever in my life thought of myself as MAGA.” Von said: “I did get pushback about it, which I didn't really understand. Like, I would go — if anybody invited me to go to the inauguration, dude? Like people on the street where I grew up, they’re not — nobody's ever going to the inauguration. Nobody from my fucking street, my neighborhood is ever going to the inauguration probably ever. They're not — some of these people cannot legally vote anymore. So the simple fact that I got to go, right? Bobby Kennedy is a friend of mine. People are like, you're not — I'm going to support my fucking friend.” [YouTube, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, 2/25/25]
• Discussing concerns about vaccinating kids with podcaster Andrew Schulz, who said people need to see the research, Von suggested that Kennedy give weekly speeches to “update people … and say this is where things are at.” Shultz said he was concerned about vaccinating his daughter because “you have to put something in them and you've watched a video on YouTube that says that it could do something horrible to her, but if you don't do it she could get some disease that could do something horrible to her. So you're like, ‘What — how do I protect my kid?’ … Just like, we want the research.” Von replied, “If you gave Bobby an out where, you know, even if it was 20 minutes a week where he gave a speech or something, and maybe that he should start doing that to update people. Robert Kennedy Jr., to say this is where things are at and we're going to try our best, and this is what we're going to try to do.” [YouTube, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, 3/19/25]

Dr. Phil

• Host Dr. Phil McGraw did an interview for over an hour with Kennedy titled “Inside RFK Jr.’s Health Agenda 100 Days,” and he opened the interview by describing Kennedy as “a voice of dissent and a fearless challenger of norms and a relentless advocate for what he believes is right, from addressing the rise in chronic disease to re-evaluating nutritional standards.” During the interview, which aired on Merit TV and was uploaded to his podcast feeds on Apple Podcast and Spotify, Dr. Phil called Kennedy “a man who refuses to be silenced,” noting that “he's faced criticism and controversy, yet remains steadfast in his mission to make America healthy again.” [Merit TV, Dr. Phil Primetime, 4/29/25; Apple Podcast, The Dr. Phil Podcast, 4/30/25; Spotify, The Dr. Phil Podcast, 4/30/25]
• After mentioning that obesity has risen among young people, Dr. Phil celebrated that Kennedy “is spearheading a bold new initiative that's aiming to change all of that” by “overhaul[ing] the food system in this country.” He said Kennedy’s plan is to “give Americans cleaner, healthier options, new regulations and a real commitment to giving our children the future they deserve.” [YouTube, The Dr. Phil Podcast, 2/5/25]
• In a segment titled “Make America Healthy Again,” Kennedy adviser Calley Means said the recommendation and subsidization of “ultra-processed food” are a “big problem and that's what Bobby Kennedy and I think bipartisan leaders can change very quickly,” to which Dr. Phil agreed. Dr. Phil added, “Yeah. Listen. This has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with politics. Every child has the right to a healthy future. Every child has a right to not have a chronic disease and not be programmed for a chronic disease.” [YouTube, The Dr. Phil Podcast, 2/5/25; Politico, 4/5/25]
• Discussing the “Make America Healthy Again movement,” Dr. Phil said, “This isn't about politics,” noting, “Bobby Kennedy has been a Democrat all of his life, and he made a switch here — he's looking for a track to run on to change America. That's what he's looking for. This isn't about politics for him.” [YouTube, The Dr. Phil Podcast, 4/4/25]
• Dr. Phil: “MAHA has become synonymous with my good friend RFK Jr.” He added that the movement “is much bigger than RFK Jr. And ignore the headlines you may have seen, because this is not about politics. … Make America Healthy Again is a national movement with Americans from every walk of life. And let me tell you, this country is built on families, and we need to make our families healthy again.” [YouTube, The Dr. Phil Podcast, 4/4/25]

PBD Podcast

• After co-host Adam Sosnick asked whether Trump has “made any public comments recently about Fauci,” host Patrick Bet-David replied, “The biggest comment he's made is, ‘My recommendation for who should run the Department of HHS is Bobby Kennedy.’” Bet-David said: “That's the biggest comment. Do you know who in America has investigated Fauci more than RFK? Nobody. Can you imagine out of all the people that are going to go after you is the guy that wrote a book that sold millions of copies, he puts him in charge to go after you? He's like, yeah, to write a book that technical, the way he broke down, whatever, LZT, AIDS, all this stuff, the history of it, he needs to do this job.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 2/11/25]
• Discussing Kennedy, co-host Tom Ellsworth said that “when you are too qualified or too informed, there is massive risk to the establishment,” adding that “the screams at RFK should ratify for everyone that he's the guy for this job.” Ellsworth criticized the use of food dyes in Froot Loops cereal in the U.S., which he said are associated with “hyperactivity in kids,” and he said Kennedy has addressed that issue. [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 1/30/25]
• Sosnick criticized “Big Pharma” and said Kennedy wants to ban pharmaceutical ads on TV. Sosnick said that “there’s three things that are keeping the mainstream lamestream media alive still,” including Big Pharma, adding, “What percentage of their ad revenue comes from Big Pharma? I want to say like 75%, something like that. … It's a big number, and here's Bobby Kennedy coming in, shutting it down.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 3/25/25]
• Discussing Anthony Fauci , Bet-David said that “we're going in the right direction,” adding that if Trump “is able to get, you know, RFK or somebody to finally expose a lot of people's questions of what the hell happened.” Bet-David said: “Let’s find out the NIH files. Let's do the CDC files. He just cut the funding of 350 million a year to the World Health Organization. Guess what? We're going in the right direction. I think if the president is able to get, you know, RFK or somebody to finally expose a lot of people's questions about what the hell happened with this and those questions are answered, then people will be receptive to the idea of an optional thing coming up with, what do you call it, with the vaccine.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 1/23/25]
• Discussing the potential release of information related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Ellsworth labeled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “a true crusader” who can’t “be bought.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 3/11/25]

JP Sears

• Host JP Sears said Kennedy is “one of the most smeared truth tellers of the past four years, five years” and told his audience to call their senators to urge them to confirm Kennedy. Sears promoted Kennedy’s book and said that Kennedy is “one of the most dangerous people to corrupt agendas,” adding, “You can contact your senator, yeah, your senator's office, and the time to do that is actually right now, and let them know you urge them to support the confirmation of RFK Jr.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 1/28/25]
• After the Senate Finance Committee voted to advance Kennedy’s nomination, Sears said it was “great” and added, “I'm happy about that.” Sears said it was “RFK versus the pharmaceutical industry” and complained that the hearing was held by the finance committee, saying it was “because most of our finances come from the pharmaceutical industry.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 2/4/25]
• Sears discussed Kennedy’s pledge to prevent food stamps from being used to purchase soda, saying that “big soda” was “feeling a little threatened, bottom line, because RFK Jr.,” and adding that he is “truly on a mission to help make America healthy again.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 3/25/25]
• Sears said, “I love the work” Kennedy is doing as HHS secretary, citing a news conference Kennedy gave about “the dramatic rise in autism.” Sears also said that autism is “correlated” with vaccines. [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 4/22/25]

Impaulsive

• In an interview with venture capitalist Bryan Johnson about toxins in foods, host Logan Paul said that the FDA “should” be responsible for regulation, and co-host Mike Majlak added, “or RFK.” [YouTube, Impaulsive, 1/21/25]

While some shows have expressed support for Ukraine and are critical of Putin, other shows have criticized U.S. aid to Ukraine and pushed pro-Russia talking points, including claiming NATO pushed Russia into war and that the Maidan Revolution was a coup instead of a democratic uprising.

Joe Rogan

• In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, host Joe Rogan said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are afraid of Trump, who, he says, “wants peace.” After Fridman told Rogan that Putin and Zelensky think that Trump could “do some crazy shit,” Rogan responded, “And he probably would, but he doesn't want to. … This is the difference. That's a very unique position that he's in, where they're [Putin and Zelensky are] afraid of him, but yet he wants peace.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 1/22/25]
• In that same interview with Fridman, Rogan said Russia invaded in part because NATO repeatedly violated its agreement to not “move closer to Russia.” Rogan stated, “It's a war that's so confusing over here for, especially to the uninitiated, for the people that are just, like, kind of reading the newspaper and getting a — it's a sort of a cursory understanding of what happened. Russia invaded. Why? You know, what'd they do? And then you gotta get into the whole U.S.-backed coup in 2014, and then you have to think about NATO and the agreement that was made. The fall of, you know, when the wall came down in Berlin. The agreement that NATO would not push forth and move closer to Russia, which they violated over and over and over again.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 1/22/25] 
• Rogan said money sent to support Ukraine could have been spent to rebuild homes in Hawaii, asking, “What about the fucking people in Maui?” He continued: “What about — that could have been fixed with $5 billion. The government could have said, we are going to rebuild those people's homes to the exact state and even better than where they were before. It's gonna cost us $5 billion. All the money that we're sending over to Ukraine, all the money that we send to Israel, all the money we send to all these different organizations that work with USAID in the tune of billions and billions and billions of dollars. They could have done that.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 2/10/25]
• During an interview with comedian Dave Smith, Rogan agreed with Smith when he said “D.C. [is] overthrowing Putin’s neighbor” and that people “don’t like that detail because then it fucks up the whole unprovoked narrative.” Rogan replied, “Yeah. People don't like that detail. They don't like the detail that there's many layers of subterfuge interexchanging with each other. There's just so much money and so much influence, and they're so good at it. They've been doing it for so long that they can get Time magazine to write an article saying how it's good.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 4/3/25]

Theo Von

• During an interview with commentator Candace Owens, host Theo Von said, “That whole Ukraine thing is unbelievable. Like, what are we even doing?” Owens said the U.S. funding for Ukraine is “money laundering,” Von replied, “Oh, it feels like that for sure. Like, you just don’t really know what’s going on.” [YouTube, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, 3/5/25]

Full Send Podcast

• Full Send Podcast host Kyle Forgeard said he thinks Trump can end the war in Ukraine, adding that Trump “maybe knows that you got to insult Zelensky to kind of get to him.” Forgeard stated, “I think he's a really good negotiator, and he seems like he's just a people pleaser, right, too. So, I think, you never see him insulting someone. Like, he doesn't insult — I guess he insulted Zelensky. But maybe he knows that you got to insult Zelensky to kind of get to him too. But I think if you insult Putin, you kind of you piss him off, and then he's never gonna make a deal with you.” [YouTube, Full Send Podcast, 3/27/25]

PBD Podcast

• PBD Podcast co-host Vincent Oshana said of Zelensky, “I can't believe we've given this guy so much freaking money. I cannot stand it.” Oshana added, “Do you trust that guy? I don’t trust any of these people, bro. Are you freaking kidding me? None of that money should be going to them. It should be going to us.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 2/4/25]
• Oshana praised Trump for calling for new elections in Ukraine, saying, “It's been a money laundering scheme this entire time.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 2/20/25]
• Oshana said former President Joe Biden said Russia “could do a minor incursion” and that Biden “welcomed them to go.” Oshana added, “They pushed Putin to do this. I'm not an apologist for him, but the guy's been saying — the guy's been saying for a while, like, bro, he doesn't want — they're pushing him to do this shit.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 2/20/25]
• Co-host Tom Ellsworth said Zelensky “doesn't want a ceasefire.” Ellsworth claimed, “Zelensky is saying something inflammatory about one of the three parties that is trying to negotiate a ceasefire. So you've got the U.S. trying to get Ukraine and Russia in, wherever it was, Saudi Arabia, wherever they were, and on the phone and since they were trying to get this delicate thing. We have a little bit of a ceasefire going on. This — Zelensky says this? To me this is like, this guy doesn't want a ceasefire. He's now poking the bear on the eve of getting a cease fire. What's going on here? Who — who's in his ear telling him to do things like this to try and piss off Russia?” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 3/25/25]

Asmongold

• Streamer Zack Hoyt, who goes by both Asmongold and ZackRawrr, said that he is “totally against his [Trump’s] perspective on Ukraine.” He stated, “Ukraine didn't — like, Ukraine got attacked by Russia. They got invaded by Russia. Like, there are Russian troops in Ukraine. It’s not like Ukraine is trying to attack Moscow. … I think that really it’s kind of fucked up that Trump is saying this. Like, I’m totally against his perspective on Ukraine.” [Twitch, ZackRawrr, 2/19/25] 
• Asmongold said Zelensky should have thanked Trump and JD Vance during their Oval Office meeting but said criticizing him for not doing so was “patronizing.” He stated, “I feel like it might be confusing for some people to watch this because, like, I'm kind of arguing on both sides. I think Zelensky should have opened with a thank you. I think he should have, but I think calling it out was patronizing and counterproductive. Like, I think both things were true.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 3/1/25]
• Asmongold argued that Zelensky should have worn a suit during his Oval Office meeting with Trump, saying he should “suck it the fuck up and deal with it.” He stated, “Trump is very prideful. He is. But he's the one in control, so you have to play to his — you have to play on his side. That's the way it works. You ever had an asshole boss but you still got to say ‘Thank you, sir,’ ‘Your suit looks nice, sir,’ ‘Good job, sir,’ ‘Funny joke, sir’? Absolutely. Suck it the fuck up and deal with it. You're making decisions for millions of people. It's not about you. Make the right decision for the most people. That's the way I see it. And if they told him to do that he should have done it.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 3/3/25]
• Asmongold argued that the war in Ukraine can end only if Putin gets “something out of it,” calling it an “unfortunate reality.” He said, “I think that there's no way that the war can end without Putin getting something out of it. That doesn't mean that I want that to happen. I just think that that's an unfortunate reality. I hope I'm wrong. But I think that, like, from a negotiation perspective, that's the truth. Right? And then — yeah, that's how I see it. Right? Very true. Exactly. And so, like, but don't ever get it twisted and think that I'm not on your side. I'm totally on your fucking side, and I've been on your side, as I said, for fucking years.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 2/20/25]

Lex Fridman

• Host Lex Fridman argued that Putin is the one at fault for invading Ukraine, describing him as the guy who “pulls the trigger first, non-accidentally and keeps pulling the trigger.” Fridman stated, “I think the thing that we left unsaid that's important to say is that Putin invaded Ukraine in February 24, 2022. And I think he is, at least from my perspective, the person who started the war. You could talk about NATO expansion, you could talk about any other thing that led to it. You could start at the collapse of the Soviet Union. You can go all the way back as he did a thousand years. The reality is, and this goes to our, like, deep discussion about the morality of war. No matter the reasons, the guy that like pulls the trigger first, non-accidentally, and keeps pulling the trigger, that's the guy who's at fault.” [YouTube, Lex Fridman Podcast, 4/8/25]
• Fridman said Trump’s phone call with Putin could be part of “a principled chaos.” Fridman stated, “I can criticize Trump all day, but I'm just saying that there's some degree to the picking up the phone, and talking to leaders, and playing the — in the morning, say one thing, in the evening, another. That could be part of a principled chaos.” [YouTube, Lex Fridman Podcast, 3/25/25]
• Fridman argued that Zelensky needs to feed Trump’s “ego” more to convince him that the war in Ukraine is worth winning. Fridman stated, “These people are complicated narcissists, all of them, Biden, Trump. You have to navigate the complexity of that. And you basically have to say a kind word to Trump, which is like showing, there's many ways of doing that. But one of them is feeding the ego by acknowledging that he is one of the world's greatest negotiators, right? … There's this whole energy of entitlement that he [Zelensky] brought. He forgot that there's a new guy. You gotta like, convince the new guy that this global mission that this nation is on, this war that is, in many ways, the West versus the East. That there's ideals, there's whole histories here, that this is a war worth winning.” [YouTube, Lex Fridman Podcast, 3/30/25]
• Fridman criticized foreign diplomats in Russia/Ukraine negotiations, saying they “don’t get shit done.” Fridman said, “I don't understand why Putin, Zelensky, and Trump can't just meet in a room together without signing anything. Leaders meeting and discussing, and like the human connection. There's so many layers of diplomats. It's the problem I have with the managerial class. They don’t — they schedule meetings really well; they don't get shit done. And I would love it if people got shit done. So the soldiers get shit done. They're fighting the reality of the war.” [YouTube, Lex Fridman Podcast, 3/30/25]

JP Sears

• Host JP Sears called Zelensky a “puppetarian president” and said it’s “a good conclusion” to say that Ukraine is corrupt, though he also blamed countries supporting Ukraine. Sears stated, “Zelensky, he's a comedian, current puppetarian president of Ukraine. So he was interviewed, and get these numbers. The U.S. has sent Ukraine ... $177 billion. Zelensky then said, in this interview, we've received $75 billion. I don't know where the rest of the money went. Well, fair enough. As long as you don't know, that's all we're after here. He's received 75 billion. We've sent 102 billion more than that. That's a problem. You know? I can — I was gonna say I would jump to the conclusion that Ukraine is corrupt, and I think that's a good conclusion. I just don’t think it’s the whole picture.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 2/4/25]
• Sears said Trump “ate Zelensky for lunch, barfed him up” and then JD Vance “eats Trump's lunch, Zelensky, for his lunch.” Sears stated, “Trump ate him for lunch in front of the cameras, and then JD Vance ate what Trump ate for lunch. Trump … ate Zelensky for lunch, barfed him up, and JD Vance says, that's not fully digested. Let me have a chance. JD Vance eats Trump's lunch, Zelensky, for his lunch. Zelensky, he's not very palatable. JD Vance threw him up again, full on cow-style. Trump said, still not fully digested. Let me eat that son of a bitch for lunch one more time. And Trump did in fact eat him for lunch and pooped him out the other side, fully digested, ladies and gentlemen, and flushed him over to Europe, where he could beg for just free money from people who might be dumb enough to think a hunk of crap on a plate looks delicious.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 3/4/25]

Right-leaning shows which describe themselves as nonpolitical have repeatedly come to the defense of the White House and Pentagon. Notably, during the scandal over the leaked Signal chat, hosts including Joe Rogan and Vincent Oshana of the PBD Podcast floated unfounded conspiracy theories about the debacle.

Joe Rogan

• Defending Trump’s secretary of defense, host Joe Rogan said of Pete Hegseth, “They don't want to think about his distinguished military career — they want to say, ‘Oh, that Fox News guy.’” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 2/28/25]
• Rogan criticized the Trump administration’s handling of Signalgate, asking: “How's that not classified? If that's not classified, somebody else should get fired.” He went on, “If Jamie and I were talking shit about someone and we decided to do it on Signal, like, I would make sure that I didn't accidentally include my mom or a fucking reporter I know.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 4/3/25]
• Rogan said there are “people that suspected” that the Signal chat was “a setup.” He said: “I don't know enough about it, but it does seem like there's people that suspected it was a setup, that that guy was added to the chat on purpose.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 3/29/25]
• During Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, Rogan defended the former Fox star’s controversial tattoos, claiming, “These ignorant people are going after his tattoo, not even knowing what the tattoo is, and trying to pretend that it's some sort of radical hateful tattoo when it's just an ancient Christian tattoo.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 1/22/25; Axios, 1/14/25]
• Rogan complained about the criticism Trump officials have been receiving online, claiming that it’s a “core aspect of progressives right now online is that when they're tweeting about stuff, when they're posting about stuff, it's very aggressive and very angry and insulting.” He continued: “This is their way to demean, whether it's Pete Hegseth or Kash Patel, or any of these people that are involved, or RFK Jr., any of these people that are involved in — even Tulsi.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 2/19/25]

PBD Podcast

• Co-host Vincent Oshana pushed the idea that the Signal group chat was leaked “on purpose,” as “a way to show like, hey, listen. Look what we're doing behind closed doors.” He added that “it looks to me like if you wanted to fire somebody, guess what's a good way to get his ass fired? Have something like this happen and then leak it.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 3/25/25]
• Host Tom Ellsworth justified the use of Signal at the Pentagon, calling it, “not unusual.” He then went on to add, “There's also another angle to it. If I'm a Cabinet member, I only want to communicate with the media on a secure channel. I don't want to risk that it gets sniffed on a Gmail or anything like that.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 3/25/25]
• In a later episode, Oshana asked about Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s inclusion in the Signal chat, “How does an Atlantic — a guy that they all despise — how did he jump into this text? How? Why?” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 3/27/25]
• Oshana also said it’s “weird that everybody’s kind of connected,” referring to Katherine Maher, who chairs the board of the Signal Foundation, which is behind the Signal messenger app, calling her a “leftist NPR CEO” and adding, “What are the odds of that?” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 3/27/25]

Asmongold

• On his Twitch stream, Zack Hoyt, who goes by both Asmongold and ZackRawrr, praised Pete Hegseth’s new policy, “Restoring Good Order and Discipline Through Balanced Accountability,” which calls for dismissal of sexual misconduct claims against service members if they lack actionable evidence. Asmongold celebrated a video of Hegseth announcing the policy, calling it “a complete Karen annihilation” and adding, “Thank fucking God.” [Twitch, ZackRawrr, 4/29/25; Yahoo! News, 5/5/25]

JP Sears

• On Rumble, host JP Sears said of the Signal chat story, “Did Tulsi really send top secret messages on Signal? It's like, you don't think she knows that's been hacked? Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr., they've had their Signal accounts hacked, allegedly.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 3/25/25]

While some right-leaning figures have criticized the Trump administration’s use of deportations — notably including Joe Rogan — several right-leaning shows have expressed support for Trump’s immigration agenda and argued against the due process rights of immigrants and refugees. Show hosts and guests also discussed the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, with one, JP Sears, likening attempts to return him to the U.S. as an attempt “to retrieve your poop from the toilet.”

Joe Rogan

• Host Joe Rogan stated that “the fear is that there’s going to be certain people that are rounded up in this that are not guilty,” regarding the mass deportations of alleged gang members to El Salvador. Rogan also asked, “What if you're in that group and you're not guilty of anything? What if you're just a guy who came over here from Mexico and you're a tattoo artist?” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 3/21/25]
• In a later episode, Rogan stated, “I think due process exists for a reason, and the reason is it is horrific for someone to be accused of something they didn’t do, be imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit, and then live in a cell, live in a cage.” He added, “We have to make sure these people are actually guilty, otherwise we become monsters.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 4/17/25]
• Rogan said the wrongful deportation of Andry Hernandez Romero, “if it is real, this is fucking horrible.” Rogan would go on to argue, “If you want, you know, compassionate people to be on board with you, you can't deport gay hairdressers seeking asylum. That's fucking crazy.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 3/29/25]

Full Send Podcast

• During an interview with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), host Kyle Forgeard asked if “the left” are “trying to stop President Trump from having success” with his use of deportations. Forgeard also asked Donalds about “the whole situation with the immigrant that was wrongfully sent out,” using air quotes around “wrongfully.” [YouTube, Full Send Podcast, 4/24/25]
• Forgeard told Donalds, “One of my favorite moments, though, recently in the last few months is when you just fucking tore apart all those sanctuary city mayors.” Forgeard also said opposition to sanctuary cities is “common sense,” likening it to “men playing in women's sports.” [YouTube, Full Send Podcast, 4/24/25]

Dr. Phil

• Host Dr. Phil McGraw praised Trump border czar Tom Homan, calling him “all about transparency and the letter of the law.” In a clip from Dr. Phil’s embed with an ICE raid, he described Homan as “very pro-immigration.” [YouTube, The Dr. Phil Podcast, 2/1/25]

PBD Podcast

• Co-host Tom Ellsworth claimed, in reference to people calling for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, “They want another Trayvon [Martin], they want another George Floyd.” Co-host Vincent Oshana added, “Trump classified them [members of MS-13] as domestic terrorists because they are.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 4/17/25]
• In response to guest Chris Cuomo’s assertion that the Trump administration should “give him [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] a hearing so you can prove that you respect due process,” co-host Vincent Oshana labeled attempts to defend Garcia “horseshit.” Oshana also stated, “how many thousands of people have Homeland Security, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem gotten the hell out of this country? I haven’t heard of one illegal raping or murdering an American, OK, since Trump has been in.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 4/15/25]
• Ellsworth said he is “unsure” about the constitutionality of sending alleged gang members to El Salvador and offered the colonization of Australia as precedent. Ellsworth added, “Do you know what populated Australia for the most part, you know, that came from Britain? Prisoners. They sent their prisoners to a peaceful Australia.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 4/17/25]
• Before playing a clip of Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has agreed to accept and jail migrants from the U.S., host Patrick Bet-David stated, “I love what Bukele just said. Even though it's not constitutional, I love what he just said the other day.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 4/17/25]

Asmongold

• Streamer Zack Hoyt, who goes by both Asmongold and ZackRawrr, said of due process for immigration investigations, “Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the process is bad?” Earlier, he argued, “Has it ever occurred to you that if the amount of due process required is multiple court dates, multiple immigration judges, an entire investigation into this person's tattoos, the object reality that nobody even debates that he is an illegal immigrant, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the due process should be changed?” [Twitch, ZackRawrr,4/19/25]
• Asmongold said Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to justify deportations without due process “is the due process.” He said: “They never saw a courthouse? Yeah, that's because the due process of the illegal alien act or whatever the fuck it's called says that they don't have to. If you invoke that and it's an invasion, they don't have to do that. That's the reason. So you shouldn't be making that argument. You should be making the argument that he couldn't invoke the act. That's — and that's a different argument. But to say that these people didn't get due process isn’t true. This is the due process.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 3/18/25]
• Asmongold claimed that people opposed to the mass deportation of migrants “don't give a fuck about due process. They care about losing some sort of political ground — that's it.” Asmongold said: “Where's the due process for people getting fired from their jobs from COVID? Where's the due process for people that are getting arrested and put in jail after January 6? No, bro, like, absolutely fucking not. You're not going to use this due process argument on me when, no, these people don't give a fuck about due process.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV,3/24/25]

JP Sears

• Host JP Sears described Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s (D-MD) advocacy for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an attempt “to retrieve your poop from the toilet.” Sears joked that, “That's like if you flush your poop down the toilet, then you have a Democrat senator come to your house, and he tries to retrieve your poop from the toilet.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 4/22/25]
• During the first week of Trump’s term, Sears called it “amazing” that the administration said it had arrested and started deportations of over a thousand people. He added that the Trump administration’s plans to deploy troops to the southern border is “a show of force there that will inflict consequences” and said that individuals deported “get a free flight out of it — not so bad for them.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 1/24/25]

In a previous study of top pro-Trump online shows in the days after Trump launched his formal tariff plan, we found some dissension as his economic policy disrupts the global economy — even as this ecosystem still overwhelmingly supports him. One-quarter of discussions on those right-leaning shows that self-categorize as nonpolitical embraced the president’s tariff policy, but there was some notable criticism from Rogan and others.

Joe Rogan

• Host Joe Rogan said: “I’m scared of this tariff stuff because it's radical change, and I'm scared of radical change.” Guest Kyle Dunnigan claimed that “this is all his [Trump’s] negotiating. It's going to come down, it's not going to stay like this. The bad thing is if all the other countries go ‘Fuck you, America. We're not going to do any.’” Rogan replied, “I think it's always a possibility.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 4/5/25]
• Rogan suggested that Trump is “not nearly as charming if people can't speak [his] language,” saying, “Trump is used to being able to charm people, he's very charming, but if you can't speak his language, you might be like ‘Fuck this orange asshole.’” He explained that other world leaders might think, “I don't even know this guy. What is he saying? And someone has to tell you what he said.” He said it’s “not cute” when someone has to translate: “Mr. Putin, he says these tariffs, this is bullshit, it's part of the game — it's part of the card game we are playing all together globally.” [YouTube, The Joe Rogan Experience, 4/5/25]

Theo Von

• Host Theo Von agreed with his guest that “the tariffs are getting out of control,” adding that “the goal of tariffs is that if it costs people more to bring their products in, then they'll build them here. So it’s kind of a long-term play. It’s going to take a while.” Von then said, “If we don't try this, though, then I think it's a wrap,” and said that in “a lot of”cities on his comedy tour, “there's nothing there, it’s empty downtowns.” [YouTube, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, 4/8/25]
• Von defended Trump’s tariffs, saying, “From my perspective after traveling around the country, I don't know how else you're going to get jobs back here, because it just — there's a lot of towns that are boarded up.” Von added, “I'm just thinking what's going to come and save these cities, if something needs to, and so then you start to see Trump put these tariffs on and then you start to get the idea, well it's to bring jobs back so we have jobs here so it keeps cities busy.” Guest Mike Rowe said, “I don't know an economist who thinks tariffs are a good idea, I really don’t.” Von replied, “I don’t know an economist.” [YouTube, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, 4/22/25]

Full Send Podcast

• On the Full Send Podcast, Fox host Sean Hannity claimed that “Canada’s been screwing the U.S. with tariffs” and accused the country of “starting the tariff war.” He also claimed that Canada is “doing nothing to control the border.” [YouTube, Full Send Podcast, 4/3/25]

PBD Podcast

• Co-host Vincent Oshana declared that “the tariffs are exactly what America needs right now.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 4/3/25]
• Co-host Tom Ellsworth dismissed claims that Trump’s tariffs were causing economic uncertainty, saying that “the greater goal is American jobs. … There's concern there, but you have got to look down the street and see where we're going, and it is not easy to get through the food poisoning, but there is life on the other side and you can see, that’s what the president is talking about.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 4/3/25]
• Co-host Adam Sosnick said that “people say that Trump doesn't really have an ideology,” but “it's kind of clear he has one thing that he definitely cares about and that's dealing with these unfair trade practices.” Sosnick added that the tariffs “could go terribly good or terribly bad, but Trump's willing to die on this hill.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 4/8/25]
• Sosnick complained that “I don’t understand the methodology for what he was doing with Liberation Day,” when Trump “liberated America of like $5 trillion worth of wealth, and nobody saw it coming.” Discussing Trump’s first 100 days in office, Ellsworth said, “Overall, first hundred days, I give it a C+, and I get there this way: an A- on the plan, but a C- on the execution,” adding, “The execution got messy.” [Mediaite, 4/30/25]

Asmongold

• On YouTube, streamer Zack Hoyt, who goes by Asmongold, expressed disappointment about Trump’s tariff reversal, saying he “roached out on tariffs,” adding, “He changed his fucking mind.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 4/12/25]
• In early April, Asmongold justified Trump’s tariff policy, asking, “Why are other countries doing it to us? If they're a regressive tax and they're bad, then why are they doing it to us?” He went on: “You think that the countries are just going to stop trading with America? Their entire economy is built off of America. And if Trump cuts them off and doesn't do that, they're going to fall apart, and it's going to be a lot worse than any tariff that we can do to them." [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 4/2/25]
• After the stock market crash following Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement, Asmongold called tariffs “massively destabilizing.” He claimed: “I've had friends of mine contact me and they've said like, ‘Yeah, bro. Like, our company is like, way worse, like, we have this massive issue. We're thinking about doing layoffs.’ Right? So like, I've had people tell me that they're really bad.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 4/4/25]
• Praising Trump’s tariff policy, Asmongold claimed, “This is the truth: There are necessary sacrifices and Trump is willing to make them. That's the reason — and so is China too, by the way. China has no problem sacrificing its people and I don't think Trump has that much of a problem sacrificing us.” [YouTube, Asmongold TV, 4/9/25]

JP Sears

• Discussing the fallout from Trump’s tariffs, host JP Sears admitted they would cause “short-term pain, certainly,” saying “Like anything good in life, what — you know, where is there not pain involved?” Sears equated the tariffs to sobriety, saying, “If you're heavily addicted to drugs or alcohol, when you get off, you're going to feel worse before you feel better.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, ​​4/8/25]
• Sears declared, “I think they will be successful,” while discussing “uncertainty” about the tariffs. He added, “Here’s what I can tell you for certain. I don’t know how it will play out. I hope it plays out well. I’m not going to pretend to have certainty about it. But here’s what I do know. Will Donald Trump back down on his tariffs due to public pressure, due to people panicking about the stock market? My answer to that is there’s not a hope in hell of this man backing down due to pressure. Do you know what he’s overcome? Do you know why he has blood on his face? And that bullet, not even the hardest thing he overcame.” [Rumble, Lies You Can Trust, 4/8/25]

Lex Fridman

• Host Lex Fridman said that Trump’s tariff plan will create “a huge amount of pain for regular Americans” and said he worries it will increase the chance of global conflict. Fridman stated, “There is a global nature, there is a multilateral nature, of all economic partnerships that are formed throughout the 21st century. And this kind of protectionist, nationalistic ideology goes in the face of all that, and it's gonna create a huge amount of pain like for regular Americans. But also I worry that this increases, not decreases the chance of a global war, or conflict of different kinds.” [YouTube, Lex Fridman Podcast, 4/24/25]

Jordan Peterson

• Host Jordan Peterson said that “Trump has been careening around like a bull in the china shop with regards to his comments about Canada, placing tariffs on Canada, describing us as not worthy of having our own country.” [The Daily Wire, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, 4/10/25]