California Governor Gavin Newsom takes on Joe Rogan after podcaster calls him a ‘cardboard cutout of a person’
California governor Gavin Newsom you’ve fired again at Joe Rogan after the favored podcaster known as him a “cardboard cutout of a person.”
Newsom posted his rebuttal to Rogan from his “Governor Newsom Press Office” account on X, the place he incessantly adopts the posting type of President Donald Trump to mock him and different conservatives.
“JOE ‘LITTLE GUY’ ROGAN IS TOO CHICKEN TO HAVE ME ON HIS FAILING PODCAST BECAUSE HE KNOW I’D CRUSH HIM, SO HE TAKES CHEAP SHOTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY AS HE GETS RELEGATED TO IRRELEVANCY,” Newsom wrote. “ALL TALK, NO ACTION. I’M READY WHEN YOU ARE, ‘LITTLE GUY.’ OR KEEP HIDING!!!! —Governor GCN.”
In 2024, Spotify revealed to Bloomberg that Rogan’s Joe Rogan Experience podcast had 14.5 million followers. The present at present has 20.9 million subscribers on YouTube. During the Thursday episode of his present, Rogan stated that nobody believes Newsom is a “real person,” calling him a “stone cold, narrative-driven politician.”
“Whether you like Trump or not, whether you think he’s corrupt, [he’s] a human being… with Newsom, you’ve got like this construct, this cardboard cutout of a person,” he stated.
Rogan has voiced dislike for Newsom for years. The comic spent 25 years residing in California earlier than he moved out of the state to Austin, Texas in 2020. He has stated he left California as a result of the Covid-19 laws underneath Newsom’s authorities have been too restrictive.
“I started looking out here in May [of 2020]and I went to a restaurant with my kids and they were like, we don’t have to wear a mask? …we could eat at a restaurant?” Rogan recalled in a 2023 episode of his podcast.
“Then we went to the lake, and people are playing music and jumping in the water and [my children] were like, we want to live here! That was it. Two months later, I lived here,” he stated.
During an episode of Rogan’s podcast in October, comic Andrew Schulz requested when he deliberate to have Newsom on as a visitor.
After balking on the thought, Rogan known as Newsom’s combative tweeting type “stupid” and a “bad look.” He stated he may need had the governor on if it wasn’t for his perspective on social media.
“This is such a bad strategy. Like I probably would have had it on, but now I’m like ‘no, what are you doing?'” Rogan stated on the time.
He then predicted that if Newsom did come on his present, he would not must “cook him” as a result of the governor would “cook himself.”
Newsom responded to a clip of the change by suggesting Rogan was afraid to face him.
“Bawk, bawk @joerogan,” Newsom wrote, together with an emoji of a hen.
The closest the 2 have come to publicly having a dialogue occurred through a proxy present in 2025. Newsom made an look on the Shawn Ryan Show, whose eponymous host is pleasant with Rogan. Ryan agreed to ask Newsom questions ready by Rogan about California’s Covid-19 insurance policies, in response to KOMO News.
