Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“I'm for having countries pay us billions and billions and trillions, even dollars. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. Nobody took in 10 cent…”

Trump claims he personally took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China via tariffs, something no other president ever did.

“How about this? They built the charger stations right in the Midwest. Midwest. They built eight of them. They cost $9 billion. That's like a gas pump. Right. T…”

Trump claims a $9 billion federal EV charging program only built eight charging stations in the Midwest and three of them don't work.

“Jonathan Haidt, he's a psychologist at the New York University Business School.”

Peterson identifies Jonathan Haidt as a psychologist at the NYU Business School.

“our research indicated, research on political correctness indicated that this trait agreeableness is a good predictor of holding politically correct views, and…”

Peterson claims his research found that trait agreeableness and being female are good predictors of holding politically correct views.

“our education system, our education system was designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers because it was set up when rural people were mi…”

Peterson claims the modern education system was deliberately designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers for industrializing cities.

“they pretty much wiped out or raped and froze to death all of their competent farmers. They called them kulaks”

Peterson claims the Soviets wiped out, raped, and froze to death their competent kulak farmers during collectivization.

“if you want to read about how this process works, you can read a book called Ordinary Men by Robert Browning. And Ordinary Men is about... Browning was interes…”

Peterson attributes the book Ordinary Men to an author named Robert Browning, describing the police battalion study.

“if you look at say um you know FEMA like the the agency that was paying for illegal aliens to stay at luxury hotels in New York”

Musk claims FEMA (an agency meant to help Americans in natural disasters) was paying for illegal aliens to stay at luxury hotels in New York, including sending $80 million after Trump ordered it stopped.

“Now it is closed source and for maximum profit. So it's like, I mean, to some degree, I think reality is an irony maximizer.”

Musk claims OpenAI, which he says he founded and named as an open-source nonprofit AI project, has become fully closed-source and profit-maximizing.

“I think those guys killed 100 million people. So Trump has killed zero people.”

Musk states that Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin collectively killed 100 million people, contrasting this with zero deaths attributable to Trump, to argue media comparisons of Trump to these dictators are absurd.

“There's a level beyond that which is, say, like, smarter than all humans combined, which frankly is around 2029 or 2030, probably right on time.”

Musk predicts AI will become smarter than all humans combined by around 2029 or 2030.

“we've now taken people to orbit and back. We've taken over 50 people, over 50 astronauts.”

Musk claims SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has taken over 50 astronauts to orbit and back.

“But it's currently, I think it's like 600,000 are registered to vote illegal aliens in New York.”

Musk claims approximately 600,000 illegal aliens are registered to vote in New York state and city elections.

“I mean, like, the Associated Press, which I call Associated Propaganda. The ap, they ran an international news story saying that Doge fired air traffic control…”

Musk claims the Associated Press falsely reported that DOGE fired air traffic controllers, when in fact the administration was trying to hire more, not fire any.

“misgendering Caitlyn Jenner is worse than global thermonuclear war. I mean, like, okay, we got a problem here.”

Musk claims Gemini answered that misgendering Caitlyn Jenner would be worse than global thermonuclear war, and cites this as evidence of dangerous AI safety alignment failures baked into Google's chatbot.

“Yeah, there is, actually. I think the probability of a good outcome is like 80% likely.”

Musk states his estimate that AI has an 80% probability of a good outcome for humanity.

“I mean, SpaceX, you know, my company, SpaceX has the most advanced rocket technology in the world. I think I'd know.”

Musk claims that because SpaceX has the world's most advanced rocket technology and he holds top-level security clearance, he would know if secret government UAP propulsion technology existed, and says none does.

“a lot of really qualified air traffic controllers were pushed out because of DEI stuff. So, I mean, not to be blunt. I mean, a bunch of really good, talented o…”

Musk claims a talent shortage in air traffic control exists because DEI hiring policies pushed out qualified older white air traffic controllers in favor of hiring on demographic criteria rather than merit.

“He wanted to. I think he was trying to get at Trump and maybe me and a few others, but he stole like, 500,000 tax returns. Like, not a few. Like, it's a lot of…”

Musk claims an IRS employee deliberately leaked around 500,000 tax returns, targeting Trump, Musk, and others.

“The Biden administration was also suing SpaceX. They had this massive lawsuit against SpaceX for SpaceX not hiring Asylum seekers.”

Musk claims the Biden administration's DOJ sued SpaceX specifically for not hiring asylum seekers and refugees.

“Right. That lawsuit was funded by Reid Hoffman, who is a major Dem donor and also an Epstein client. The plot thickens.”

Immediately after Musk describes the Biden-era DOJ lawsuit accusing SpaceX of discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring, Rogan claims that lawsuit was funded by Reid Hoffman, calling Hoffman a major Democratic donor and an Epstein client.

“once you have full and rapid reusability, the cost of access to space drops by a factor of 100. It's like 100 times cheaper by some metrics. It's 1,000 times c…”

Musk claims full and rapid reusability of Starship will cut the cost of access to space by a factor of 100 to 1,000, and by a factor of 10,000 to Mars with orbital refueling.

“The whole thing there was no there was no legal action against that which is clear destruction of evidence”

Rogan claims Hillary Clinton faced no legal consequences despite what he calls clear destruction of evidence regarding her email server.

“I think, what is the number, like one third of the drugs that the FDA approves gets pulled? It's fucking bananas.”

Rogan claims roughly one-third of FDA-approved drugs end up being pulled from the market.

“their economic output was like, in East Germany, was like a quarter of what it was in West Germany because everyone was working for the government.”

Musk claims East Germany's economic output was about one-quarter of West Germany's at reunification because the government employed everyone.

“the Russia gate hoax the three fucking years They said that he was Putin's toy. Yes, and that Putin had him compromised the steel dossier was completely fabric…”

Rogan claims the Steele dossier was completely fabricated and that the years-long Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a total hoax.

“Bernie got screwed. Talk about undermining democracy. Bernie should have won the nomination. Exactly. They stole it from him and gave it to Hillary.”

Rogan claims the 2016 Democratic primary was stolen from Bernie Sanders and handed to Hillary Clinton.

“The next thing you know is Sunday afternoon, they're posting on X, that he's resigned from the race. And his staff didn't even know. Like they're reading it on…”

Musk claims Biden's own staff learned of his withdrawal from the 2024 race by reading it on X, implying they had no advance notice.

“quarter of the speakers were Jewish like there was like there were people of every race color creed religion at that at that Rally like tell me what about that…”

Musk claims about a quarter of the speakers at the Madison Square Garden Trump rally were Jewish, offering this as proof the event could not be a 'Nazi rally.'

“So it's somewhere around 450, depending on what you call an agency. At the federal level, that's almost twice as many agencies as years that America has existe…”

Musk claims there are roughly 450 federal government agencies in the US, nearly double the number of years the country has existed.

“Trump says he wants to execute Liz Cheney. I'm like, that is utter bullshit.”

Musk claims media reports that Trump wanted to 'execute' Liz Cheney are utter bullshit and that Trump only said she should face combat risk before being a warmonger.

“They literally showed video of the Nazi rally from 1930s and then compared it to the Trump rally now ignoring the fact that Fucking Jimmy Carter spoke there.”

Musk claims MSNBC directly compared video of a 1930s Nazi rally to the 2024 Trump MSG rally while ignoring that Democratic figures like Jimmy Carter had held rallies at the same venue.

“this thing in New York where the 34 different felony counts, they were essentially misdemeanors that there are bookkeeping bookkeeping errors”

Musk claims Trump's 34 New York felony convictions were essentially misdemeanor bookkeeping errors improperly elevated to felonies past the statute of limitations.

“We have 51 former intelligence agents saying that this is Russian disinformation, take it offline, and Twitter complied.”

Rogan states that 51 former intelligence officials declared the Hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation and that Twitter complied by taking down the story as a direct result.

“We googled it like one year. There was like 39 million prescriptions for Adderall in this country.”

Rogan claims there were about 39 million Adderall prescriptions in the US in a single year.

“the interest payments which are already 23% of all government income, including income taxes, tariffs, and everything, is just going to pay interest right now.”

Musk claims interest payments already consume 23% of all US government revenue (income taxes, tariffs, and other receipts combined).

“Who's apologized for being incorrect about what did Rachel Maddow ever apologize for telling everybody that if you get the COVID vaccine you're never gonna get…”

Rogan claims Rachel Maddow told viewers the COVID vaccine meant they would never get COVID and that transmission would stop entirely, and that she never apologized despite this being false.

“I saw a number on like 300,000 or something like that. Something crazy like that. Let's say it's only 10% of that. That's still insane.”

Musk claims roughly 300,000 migrant children who crossed the border are missing/unaccounted for, suggesting mass child trafficking.

“You know, you hear, television makes people stupider. It's like, no, it makes smart people who could have been even smarter if they would have read Shakespeare…”

Peterson claims television only makes already-smart people relatively 'stupider' than they would have been otherwise, while being a net positive for severely deprived, unattended children, implying no downside from passive screen exposure for disadvantaged kids.

“But it isn't obvious to me that exporting those jobs was a bad long-term decision. Because, well, you want a world where 20 million Chinese are starving? That'…”

Peterson claims that without offshoring manufacturing to China, 20 million Chinese people would be starving.

“13,000 certified cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, that number should be no more than 600 on a background rate.”

McCullough claims that as of the taping, there were 13,000 CDC-certified cases of vaccine-associated myocarditis/pericarditis compared to an expected background rate of no more than roughly 600-800 cases per year.

“there's two clinical studies out of Japan with mild cognitive decline and dementia showing very positive results taking two to four grams of lion's mane per da…”

Stamets claims two Japanese clinical studies show lion's mane mushroom (2-4 grams/day of mycelium) produces strong positive results against mild cognitive decline and dementia.

“I decided that even though it had a history of potentially of killing this child, I think that's a false positive. I think it was bad science. I couldn't find…”

Stamets describes dismissing a documented child fatality linked to baeocystin as 'bad science' before self-administering the compound in an uncontrolled N-of-1 experiment.

“we've entered into 6X, the sixth greatest extinction event known in the history of life on this planet. We've had two other extinction events from asteroid imp…”

Stamets claims we are currently in the sixth mass extinction event and that the prior two mass extinctions were caused by asteroid impacts 250 million and 65 million years ago.

“certainly in New York and the employment EEOC has already ruled on that with regards to businesses for the US.”

Peterson claims the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has already ruled that businesses must use invented gender pronouns.

“we did it at Mohawk College in Canada a year ago, and we dropped their dropout rate in the first semester 50%”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring program cut first-semester dropout rates by 50% at Mohawk College.

“70% of the people that they've arrested have criminal records. What the Democrats are always saying is only 14% of them have been convicted of a violent crime.”

Kennedy claims 70% of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had criminal records, disputing a Democratic figure that only 14% were convicted of violent crimes.

“I just had Michael Mals in here. He was talking about how he got off Aspartame and how his brain fog just completely cleared up.”

Rogan states a prior guest's brain fog completely cleared up after stopping aspartame consumption, implying a causal link.

“He was like David Kessler, another really great FDA head, and he banned Aspartain. And Rumsfeld came in there and just overroled them. Rumsfeld had owned Sewel…”

Kennedy claims an FDA commissioner banned aspartame, and Donald Rumsfeld, who owned the company (Searle) making it, personally overruled that ban to get it approved.

“12,000 people this year. 12,000 in the last year.”

Rogan claims 12,000 people were arrested in the UK in the past year for social media posts.