President-elect Donald Trump’s skill to humanize himself on podcasts with candor and quips is broadly credited for having helped win him again the White House in 2024.
Since the 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 knowledge 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, massive audiences.
While Harris’ journey to the podcast circuit ranged from appearances on “Club Shay Shay,” hosted by former NFL participant Shannon Sharpe, to the favored “Call Her Daddy” podcast, hosted by former Barstool persona Alex Cooper, Trump got here out on high. His option to lean into podcasts, notably male-oriented ones, paid off with Gen Z males and millennials. The Fox News Voter Survey revealed 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 in regards to the waning affect of legacy retailers.
“There’s simply no worth — with respect to my colleagues within the mainstream press — in a common election, to chatting with the New York Times or chatting with the Washington Post, as a result of these [readers] are already with us,” deputy marketing campaign supervisor Rob Flaherty said.
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 in regards to the ‘largest mistake’ of his first time period and having the ‘angle of a comic’
Trump’s late-October marathon appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” has been seen over 53 million instances on YouTube alone and is believed to have been a turning level within the election. Rogan, identified for drawing uncooked and off-the cuff commentary from his friends, 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 individuals or disloyal individuals.” One particular instance Trump recalled was White House National Security adviser John Bolton, whom he fired in 2019. Trump stated Bolton was helpful as a risk to make different international locations suppose, “Man, Trump’s going to go to conflict with us,” however argued, “He was with Bush once they went stupidly into the Middle East. They ought to have by no means completed it. I used to say it as a civilian, so I at all times obtained extra publicity than different individuals.”
A side-by-side of president-elect Donald Trump and Joe Rogan. (Getty Images)
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Trump then expressed his surprise at how he in some way will get extra publicity than others, inviting Rogan to recommend why.
“I may undoubtedly let you know,” Rogan replied and laughed. “You’ve stated a number of wild s—.”
“Maybe,” Trump replied with a smile. Trump later went on to elucidate, “You know, it’s humorous. You want no less than the angle of a comic if you’re doing this enterprise, it is a very harmful enterprise.”
Long after the interview, Rogan marveled to later friends at Trump’s “ability to just keep 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 similar to Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, however managed to have them cracking up all through the interview.
In the interview, Trump slapped President Biden with a backhanded praise.
“He has one skill that I haven’t got — he sleeps,” Trump stated because the hosts laughed, later marveling at Biden’s skill “to go to sleep whereas on digicam.”
Trump additionally quipped, “Somebody satisfied him he looks good in a bathing suit, and if you’re 82, sometimes bathing fits aren’t going to make you look nice.”
Trump appeared on comic Andrew Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast throughout the marketing campaign. (FLAGRANT YouTube channel)
During one other viral second in that very same interview, Trump stated, “I don’t ramble,” arguing as a substitute, “I do a factor referred to 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 unprecedented reminiscence, as a result of it’s important to come again to the place you began,” he stated, boasting because the hosts laughed that he “can go to date 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 successful by a landslide. It’s not shut anymore,” a pointy departure from his preliminary perception that Trump “don’t obtained an opportunity.’”
On “The Brilliant 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 acquired by younger males. Charlamagne informed Schulz {that a} younger Black man he knew, however refused to call, reacted to Schulz’s Trump interview with a shocked, “’Flagrant’ is going to get Trump elected.’”
Schulz burst out laughing, “The interview was hearth, bro, I don’t know what to let you know.”
Trump shreds Harris on Theo Von’s podcast, says Biden was pressured out
Comedian 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 Past 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 Party behind her. At the time, America was nonetheless reeling from Biden relinquishing the nomination underneath excessive stress from social gathering luminaries like Nancy Pelosi. Von requested Trump for his principle on what occurred.
“It was a coup,” Trump stated, later suggesting, “[Chuck] Schumer, Pelosi, and quite a few different individuals — the heads of the Democrat Party,” Trump speculated. “And they did — they threatened him violently, I feel. And he did not need to get out, bear in mind he stated, ‘Only 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 1000’s of murderers” within the United States.
Trump jokes with WWE’s Undertaker about latest assassination try
In late October, Mark Calaway, finest often known as “The Undertaker” from WWE wrestling, interviewed Trump on his podcast “Six Feet Under,” reaching almost 1 million views.
Trump spoke candidly in regards to 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 International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Authorities stated Secret Service brokers fired at him after seeing the muzzle of his rifle pointing by means of a chain-link fence one gap forward of the place Trump was taking part in.
“I’m standing over a putt,” Trump stated as he recalled the incident, earlier than joking, “He may have no less than let me putt it out, proper?”
Trump spoke to the hosts of the “Six Feet Under” podcast.
Trump went on to credit score an “unbelievable lady” who took images of the suspect as he fled the scene after exchanging hearth with Secret Service.
“A lady… it may solely be a girl, as a result of males possibly aren’t sensible 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 avenue… and he or she sees him, and he or she stated, ‘He’s suspicious.’ I see individuals operating on a regular basis that do not look so sizzling! But she follows him for one block, he will get into the automotive, she stops her automotive, begins taking footage of his license plate and begins taking footage of the kind of automotive it was. It was a no matter, a van of some form, and he or she 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 subjects starting from the conflict in Ukraine to UFO’s, however took the time to particularly knock his Democratic opponent for a scarcity of interviews.
“He couldn’t do that interview,” he stated of Biden, who was nonetheless the Democratic Party nominee on the time. “Have you 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 feel he ought to. You know what probability you will have of getting him on? I’d say lower than 1%. If you probably 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 form of alien certainly issues him.
“I do know there are unlawful aliens which can be on the market,” Trump joked. “But these are those that come by means of the border, we have now loads of them. Those are those I do know. When you say ‘aliens,’ I say, ‘Are they unlawful aliens?’”
The video interview reached almost 7 million views on the time of this report.
Fox News’ Brian Flood, Danielle Wallace, and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
