Joe Rogan isn’t having it. In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcaster fired back at claims made in a forthcoming book that his team lied to Kamala Harris’ campaign about his scheduling—making it crystal clear that the Harris camp is spinning a false narrative about why she never appeared on his show.
The accusations come from an excerpt of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, a book by NBC reporter Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes, set to be released on April 1. According to the book, Rogan’s team told Harris’ campaign that he was unavailable on October 25 due to a “personal day”—only for them to find out that Trump was booked for an interview on that exact date. The implication? That Rogan deliberately snubbed Harris in favor of Trump.
Rogan, however, isn’t letting that claim slide.
“One of the things they said that weren’t true was that we lied about the day that Trump was coming on,” Rogan said during Tuesday’s podcast. “No, we just didn’t tell you that Trump was coming on. He was already booked a long time ago.”
Rogan added that Trump was incredibly easy to book, accepting the first date he was offered and setting no conditions on what could be discussed—something that apparently wasn’t the case for Harris.
The book also claims that Harris’ team sent an advance team to Rogan’s Austin studio to prep for a potential interview.
According to the excerpt, “She dispatched an advance team to the Texas state capital to do a walk-through of Rogan’s studio and get ready for a Harris arrival.”
But Rogan says this is a complete fabrication.
“They also said that they sent someone down here to the studio to do a walkthrough of the set. That’s not true,” Rogan said bluntly. “The Trump administration did.”
Which makes sense—because, as Rogan pointed out, Harris’ team never actually scheduled an interview in the first place.
There is one fact that both sides agree on: Harris wanted Rogan to come to D.C., while Rogan insisted that she come to Austin—the same way Trump did.
Rogan was adamant about giving both candidates equal treatment, even offering to interview Harris late at night after her rally in Texas. But, according to him, her team never committed.
“I even offered to do it late that night,” he explained. “So the night that Trump came on, I’m like ‘what if we do her, like when she’s done in Texas, if she came here?’ But no one ever committed to doing it.”
Yet now, as Harris faces an uphill battle to remain politically relevant, her allies are attempting to rewrite history—painting Rogan as someone who sabotaged her chance to reach millions of listeners.
Rogan isn’t just pushing back—he’s promising proof.
“I have receipts. A whole list of conversations that took place,” he said, making it clear that he has the evidence to back up his claims.
And he’s not buying the idea that this controversy is just an innocent mistake.
“So this whole idea that we fed her over, and that we fed her over for Trump—incorrect. Just not true,” Rogan said. “But I think it’s someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect.”
And that’s the real story here: Harris could have done the interview. She didn’t. And now, her team wants to blame Rogan for it.
The timing of this controversy is also worth noting. With the book set for release on April 1 and Harris’ political future uncertain, it looks a lot like damage control—a way to deflect from her failure to engage with one of the most influential media figures in the country.
