There’s a reason why Joe Rogan is the most popular podcast host in the world. He’s not beholden to anyone, regardless of their political affiliation. He’s an open-minded individual who tries to hear opinions from a wide variety of perspectives, while engaging the truth, even if it’s uncomfortable.
Rogan put this on full display in his latest conversation with Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT). During the interview, Sanders tried to rake billionaire tech guru Elon Musk over the coals for daring to spend $270 million on President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2024.
But Rogan stopped him dead in his tracks and presented him with a rather inconvenient truth.
“[Elon] spent $270 million to elect Trump as president. I think that’s absurd that any one person,” Sanders started to say during the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” before Rogan shut him down.
“What’s the most someone has donated towards the Harris campaign?” Rogan asked his guest.
“They spent a lot of money on her,” Sanders confessed.
“They spent $1.5 billion in the course of a couple of months,” he fired back.
Truth hurts, right Uncle Bernie?
JUST IN: Joe Rogan shuts down Senator Bernie Sanders after he tried slamming Elon Musk for donating $270 million in the 2024 election.
Sanders: “[Elon] spent $270 million to elect Trump as president. I think that’s absurd that any one person.”
Rogan: “What’s the most someone… pic.twitter.com/2RvQ1oC8dz
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 24, 2025
So what, exactly, did Harris blow all that cash on?
According to The New York Post:
Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion on her failed presidential campaign, hemorrhaging on average $100 million per week — proving that she and her claque are as bad at managing money as they are at generating coherent policy ideas.
The big-ticket items:
- $900,000 to advertise on the outside screen of the Las Vegas Sphere (Harris ended up losing Nevada).
- A cool million to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions for Harris’ splashy townhall event with the media queen.
- Ten million for a series of Gen X-bait conferences with the likes of Jon Bon Jovi (Harris ended up losing Gen X).
Oh and she spent a staggering $494 million on advertising. Just to lose miserably in November in one of the wildest upsets in political history.
How about all of those big name celebrities she paid to speak at her events? Those didn’t come cheap.
Her campaign handed over $500,000 to race-war enthusiast Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network ahead of her sitdown with him on MSNBC — a move that stinks to high heaven and should (though it won’t) utterly wreck the rep of the American answer to Pravda. And she paid another sketchy news personality, Roland Martin (who’s alleged to have helped leak a townhall question to Hillary Clinton’s camp in 2016), some $350,000 via his Nu Vision Media ahead of her sitdown on his streaming show.
The Washington Free Beacon revealed the Sharpton payments; many of these other details come from a gloomy New York Times report on the Harris disaster.
That’s just a sample of how she burned through the money.
Musk spending $270 million looks like small potatoes compared to that.
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