Joe Rogan has questioned President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy, claiming that it ‘doesn’t make sense’.
Although Rogan backed Trump in 2024, he’s since voiced doubts about the US-Israeli military action involving Iran, saying the escalation — and particularly when it happened — has left him uncertain about the rationale.
Speaking on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with comedian James McCann, Rogan said: “People have wanted people out of Iran, the people that are running Iran, for 47 years, but no one has actually gone and done it the way this administration did it. And it doesn’t make sense they chose to do it when they did.
“Like what made sense was…when they dropped that bunker buster bomb to disable their nuclear plant, or nuclear weapons manufacturing… that was like, that’s it. But then when we went back into Iran, I’m like, what happened? I mean, like, what caused that?”
He also raised questions about Israel’s influence on the conflict and how that may have shaped Washington’s involvement, adding: “But, you know, why did we do it? I don’t know. I think because of Israel, if I had to guess.”
Trump, however, has consistently rejected the idea that Israel pushed the US into taking military action against Iran.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “Israel never talked me into the war with Iran, the results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did.”
He has made similar claims in earlier remarks to reporters, saying: “No. I might have forced their hand.
“We were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn’t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that.”
Earlier this week, Trump also moved to lengthen a previously set two-week window intended for negotiations between the sides.
He wrote: “Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.
“I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other.”
Iran has since responded by saying it will not yield to what it described as Trump’s ‘helpless and nervous’ threats.