What to Know
President Donald Trump has been so unhinged lately that podcaster Joe Rogan is noticing. Though Rogan endorsed Trump in 2024, he recently spoke out against the president’s “crazy” plaques about former presidents. On December 17, 2025, images from Trump’s “Presidential Walk of Fame” started circulating on social media. Descriptions added beneath the portraits described former president Joe Biden as “the worst President in American History” and former president Barack Obama as “one of the most divisive figures in American history.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later confirmed what we all suspected: Trump wrote the descriptions on the plaques himself.
Even Rogan finds the plaques embarrassing and thinks someone should’ve intervened.
Rogan questioned: ‘How’s he allowed to write that?’
And we’d all like to know. During a conversation with comedian Tom Segura, Rogan admitted that Trump is “losing it,” but suggested that it’s to be expected. “I think everybody does when you get to a certain age,” he said. Trump is 79 years old, making him the oldest president to be sworn into office. As the two men discussed examples of the ways in which Trump is “losing it,” Rogan said “there’s nothing nuttier than the plaques underneath the president’s names.”
During the conversation, Rogan empathized with Trump at times. For example, he tried to blame Trump’s apparent cognitive decline on Democrats. “They were trying everything they could to destroy him,” he argued. “Just that alone’s gotta break your brain.”
Still, Rogan made the argument that someone should’ve stopped Trump from actually making the presidential plaques. “How is this real?” Rogan questioned. “How are you allowed to do that? How’s he allowed to write that?” He said that Trump clearly needs a “right hand man” who can talk him out of doing some of these things because “you can’t just let someone fully swim in it like that.”
This isn’t AI.
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) December 18, 2025
Get a cup of coffee, sit down, exhale and read these plaques Trump has added to Presidential portraits in the White House Walk of Fame. pic.twitter.com/d2GgGR8VLN
He argued that a historian should’ve written the plaques.
The topic came up again during a conversation with comedian Shane Gillis. Rogan said, “This is so crazy. You shouldn’t be allowed to do this, right? It should be like, historians.” He also argued that plaques in Trump’s “Presidential Walk of Fame” should be objective and professional like plaques in a museum. But instead of having a “right hand man” who talks him out of some of his ideas, Trump has a White House Press Secretary who defends everything he does.
In defending Trump’s plaques, Leavitt said, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.” Rogan also pointed out how Trump’s behavior sets a dangerous precedent. He argued that someone “needs to tell him [Trump], ‘Hey, this is not good. You can’t do that, because other people could do that too, and then the White House stops being the White House,’ and it becomes whoever is in its house, where he could just go crazy and say everybody else is a crook.”
