Ben Shapiro responds to Joe Rogan's remarks about the Iran war: “No one is feeling betrayed unless they fundamentally misunderstood President Trump's foreign policy”
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From the March 11, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Let's talk about Joe Rogan for a second. So, obviously, I'm friendly with Joe. Joe is a skeptic of intervention. It's fair enough. But his arguments are not convincing. Joe keeps insisting that this is an endless war. Now, that's wild because we are less than two weeks into the war, and it's not going to last probably more than another two weeks. When Michael Shellenberger pointed this out on his show, Joe then responded that all wars are endless, which, I mean, they're not?
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SHAPIRO: What the f — what — like, umm, no. They're not because wars have a beginning and they have an end. Not all wars are endless, obviously. By the way, Joe happens to be wrong on the numbers in terms of people feeling betrayed who are in MAGA. MAGA remains behind President Trump foursquare. According to a brand new YouGov Economist poll, 91% of MAGA supporters approve of the way Trump is handling Iran. 83% of Republicans overall approve. No one is feeling betrayed unless they fundamentally misunderstood President Trump's foreign policy from the get go.
So why then is Joe saying what he is saying? Well, as I say, he had on Michael Shellenberger yesterday, and Shellenberger is a reporter who had originally posited that the Jeffrey Epstein story was about foreign intelligence and child sex trafficking to prominent people. And then he bothered to look at the evidence. He went through the documents. He found a far more prosaic grift and sexual abuse story in which Jeffrey Epstein bilked rich people for money and used that money to pursue his sick fetishes. But Joe was not having any of that, and he continued to posit that somehow the real story of the Iran war and everything else is that Donald Trump is somehow being blackmailed by Epstein material.