MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace gloats over Joe Rogan's Trump 'flip-flopping'
MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace took a bizarre victory lap around Joe Rogan and other 'manosphere' podcasters for souring on Donald Trump in recent months. The Deadline: White House host neglected to mention her own flip-flop that saw her switch from being an Iraq War-backing aide to President George W Bush to a woke liberal TV star. As the White House's communications director, Wallace proudly defended the disastrous 2003 conflict that killed over 4,400 US service personnel and 200,000 Iraqi civilians on a hunt for weapons of mass destruction that were never found. The conflict has also been blamed for triggering the rise of ISIS. Her attitude changed with her well-paid shift into media in 2008, but she still chided Rogan for flip-flopping.'Many people who might have associated themselves with Donald Trump, even this time last year, are already having some second thoughts and saying so publicly. It’s easy to see in the so-called manosphere,' Wallace, 53, began.She proceeded to play a sequence of clips of Rogan, Shawn Ryan and Andrew Schulz - all of whom have had falling-outs with the President over his policies as of late - showering Trump with praise. 'I want to issue a disclaimer. I’m not playing those clips because any of those men are heroic,' Wallace warned.'I’m playing those clips because all three of them contributed to Donald Trump’s victory in an important way, in a way that maybe people like me didn’t appreciate. MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace took a victory lap around Joe Rogan and other 'manosphere' podcasters on Tuesday's Deadline White House The host neglected to mention her history as one of President George W. Bush’s top advisors during the Iraq war'But they were three very influential people in the podcast space,' she went on.'Joe Rogan has the biggest podcast in the country, maybe in the world.'Wallace then singled out a segment from the Joe Rogan Experience in 2024 where Rogan complimented Trump for aging well. 'To go from [that], I mean, it’s- I hope he cringes as much as I did, and I’ve never even met him,' Wallace said.'I mean, in the first term, he might not have aged because he didn’t work very hard. But to listen to him talk, he doesn’t connect nouns and verbs inside sentences when he’s talking about striking other countries. 'I mean, the idea that these guys sucked up to him and helped him win and now -again, I don’t know their purposes, I only see what is public-facing - can’t get far enough away from the stench of his political failures, is stunning.'Wallace's remarks were the latest in a series of critiques of the administration.Back in October, she welcomed actor Jeff Daniels - star of the 1994 screwball hit Dumb and Dumber - to her show to perform a self-made song about that month's 'No Kings' protests. 'Joe Rogan has the biggest podcast in the country, maybe in the world,' Wallace said as she shamed the podcaster As the White House's communications director, Wallace was tasked with defending the administration's stance on the war and selling it to the public. Her stance has since changed A haunting image of an Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his four-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs near An Najaf, March 31, 2003, during the unpopular warThat same month, she received a stern talking-to from popular radio host Charlamagne tha God, after she characterized him as a MAGA shill during the build-up to last year's presidential election. The Breakfast Club host never endorsed Trump, just merely expressed why he was gaining traction over Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris.'And it wasn’t even just ideas. It was just, you know, stating the obvious and pointing out a lot of things that Democrats may have been ignoring, like the border, like the economy,' Charlamagne said on Wallace's podcast, adding, 'I'll never forget when MSNBC did that to me.'Wallace, beforehand, suggested Republicans blindly 'fell in line' with Trump because of figures like Charlamagne and Rogan.Wallace has been with MS NOW - previously MSNBC - since 2015, after a single season on The View. Before that, she penned a fictional series surrounding a female president and her two top aides.She left the White House herself in 2006. She went on to work for the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain, a vocal supporter of the Iraq War.The conflict became widely unpopular in the US after it was found that the country possessed no 'weapons of mass destruction,' as the Bush Administration had previously claimed.
