The Biden White House tried to pull Joe Rogan off the air.
Now Rogan is saying it out loud – and the names he won't say are exactly who you think they are.
He was right about everything – and they still haven't apologized.
Presidents on the Phone, Sponsors Walking Out
The story broke Wednesday on The Joe Rogan Experience during a conversation with behavior expert Chase Hughes.
Rogan wasn't bragging.
He was explaining what it actually cost him to say out loud what millions of Americans already suspected – that the COVID vaccines weren't the miracle the government was selling, that the lockdowns made no sense, and that the people getting censored were often the ones telling the truth.
"I can't even talk about it," Rogan said. "But there were presidents involved – and former presidents involved – that were contacting Spotify."
Plural.
Not one president. Presidents.
"Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation," he added. "And it turned out to be right. All of it. Not a single apology."
PACs were organized. Sponsors were targeted.
Rogan watched his income take real hits while political operatives made calls to a Swedish company trying to pull the number one podcast in 90 countries off the air.
"It wasn't a small amount of money. It wasn't a small amount of people. It was a lot of people and a lot of money," Rogan said. "That part was spooky."
It didn't work.
The fact that Spotify is headquartered in Sweden – outside the reach of American political pressure – is the only reason you're still listening to Joe Rogan today.
Zuckerberg Already Confirmed How This Works
This isn't speculation about how the government operates.
We already know exactly what Biden's team did – because Mark Zuckerberg told us.
In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg wrote that in 2021, senior Biden administration officials – including the White House – spent months pressuring his team to censor COVID content.
Then he went on Rogan's show and described what that pressure actually looked like up close.
Biden officials called his employees and screamed at them.
They cursed at them.
They demanded that they remove content that was, by Zuckerberg's own admission, true.
"They basically pushed us and said, 'Anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down,'" Zuckerberg said. "I was just like, 'We're not going to do that.'"
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/2067300993608655211?s=20
Biden himself stood at a podium and said Facebook was "killing people" for letting the truth circulate.
That's not media criticism.
That's the President of the United States publicly threatening a private company into silencing its users.
What Biden's team did to Zuckerberg, they apparently tried to do to Spotify with Rogan.
The difference is Spotify held the line.
Jen Psaki stood at the podium in February 2022 and praised Spotify for adding content warning labels to Rogan's episodes – then added that the White House wanted platforms to "do more."
More.
They were never satisfied with labels.
They wanted Rogan gone.
They Were Wrong and They Know It
Rogan never told anyone not to get vaccinated.
He said he personally wouldn't get it if he were young and healthy – and then he caught COVID and treated it with a medication cocktail the establishment media spent two years mocking.
He was right.
The vaccine injuries Rogan kept asking about – the ones the media kept insisting didn't exist – are now documented, admitted, and built into the public record.
https://twitter.com/FoxNews_Flash/status/2067700206884540761?s=20
Myocarditis in young men after mRNA vaccines is no longer a conspiracy theory.
The FDA added warnings.
The CDC changed guidance.
And after all of that – after every concern Rogan raised turned out to be legitimate – not one person who tried to destroy him has said a word.
Not Biden. Not Psaki.
Not Neil Young, who pulled his music catalog off Spotify in protest and handed Rogan the best press of his career.
Not a single apology. Not a single retraction.
Rogan grew by two million subscribers during the month they tried to cancel him.
The people who called Spotify lost the presidency.
Sources:
- Julia Bonavita, "Joe Rogan Claims Former Presidents Threw 'a Lot of Money' at Spotify Removal Effort Over COVID Controversy," Fox News, June 18, 2026.
- Alexander Hall, "Rogan Claims 2 Former Presidents Called Spotify Over His Controversial COVID Commentary," Fox News, June 11, 2025.
- Fox Business, "White House Pushes Spotify, Big Tech to Continue Crackdown on 'Misinformation' Amid Joe Rogan Controversy," February 1, 2022.
- Western Journal, "Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Extreme Tactics Biden Admin Used to Censor Facebook Included Screaming and Cursing," January 10, 2025.
- House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "House Probes Spotify Over Censorship After 'Disinformation' Controversies," July 29, 2025.