Joe Rogan blames media for assassination attempts on Trump, says people 'programmed' by negative coverage

Podcaster Joe Rogan spoke to Rep. Tim Burchett on Thursday about the multiple attempts on President Donald Trump's life, arguing that the media's "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is partially to blame.

"There's a lot of people running around out there saying that that first Trump assassination was a setup, and that it was a hoax, and that Trump did it to try to get people to be more sympathetic to him," Rogan said as he spoke to Burchett. "Anybody who says that doesn't know anything about guns."

The bullet had famously grazed the president's ear rather than his brain, and only did so because Trump had swiveled his head to look at a chart about immigration. Rogan mocked the idea that Trump would have arranged to have come within a hair's breadth of death, saying, "There is not a person on Earth that could nick your ear at 140 yards, reliably."

Burchett argued that the catastrophic security failures amid the first assassination attempt should be viewed as an intentional "capitulation," not a "breakdown" of security.

"If Tim Burchett sneaks into the back of a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert and gets close to the stage, that's a 'breakdown,'" Burchett quipped, arguing what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, was "a complete capitulation."

Rogan continued to blast the media for how they talk about Trump, arguing they radicalize people to the point that, "You got that Russia collusion stuff shoved down your throat by mainstream media for years, and you believe all of it 100%, and so you really believed he's a terrible person, Russian agent, all these different - so you want someone to kill him."