Joe Rogan recently shocked his loyal listeners when he appeared to do a backflip on Donald Trump‘s aggressive immigration policy.

The podcaster, 58, pushed back against the Trump administration’s brutal ICE raids and said that he thought they were ‘just gonna go after criminals’ and not undocumented families who have been in the US for decades.

One person who seems happy with Rogan‘s change of heart is British-Australian actress Naomi Wattswho liked a video on social media about the former Fear Factor host being ‘tricked‘ into supporting Trump.

The video, from Now This Impactwas captioned, ‘Joe Rogan says he was tricked into supporting Trump and his mass deportation plan.’

Comments on the post were far from forgiving towards Rogan, with one user writing, ‘Did he really get tricked though? Or is he trying to save face?’

Another commented, ‘You weren’t tricked. You just heard what you wanted to hear and turned a blind eye to every other despicable thing about him. And sadly, convinced far too many others to do the same.’

In the clip, taken from an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan described the Trump administration’s harsh Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics as ‘horrific.’

While discussing the president’s deployment of the National Guard to Democrat-run cities with actor-comedian Duncan Trussell, Rogan segued into how the White House has been handling mass deportations.

‘The way it looks is horrific,’ Rogan bluntly said. ‘When you’re just arresting people in front of their kids, just normal, regular people that been been here for 20 years.

‘Everybody who has a heart can’t get along with that. Everybody with a heart sees that and goes, “That can’t be right. That can’t be the only way to do this.”‘

He made it clear that he believes having a strong and secure Southern Border should be a priority, but targeting law-abiding people who have lived most of their lives in the US is ‘crazy.’

‘If they’ve been productive members of society for 20 years, no criminal record, they worked the entire time, they paid taxes, find them a pathway to citizenship,’ he said.

‘Find a way where you can do this thing that you want to do, which is keep terrorists and cartel members from getting across the border with rugs that kill 100,000 people a year,’ Rogan began addressing Trump.

‘But have a f**king heart while doing it because if you don’t, you’re not going to get anybody on your side if you’re doing this stuff publicly – throwing women to the ground, handcuffing people just for existing on the wrong side of the dirt.’

He noted that many Mexican migrants come to the US as children and have spent their entire lives in the country.

‘They can’t even speak Spanish, and they could get sent back,’ he asserted.

Rogan – who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election but previously backed liberal candidates, including Bernie Sanders in 2020 – also denounced Trump’s ICE raids in August.

While speaking on his podcast, he expressed discontent with Trump’s policies because they target laborers and not the violent criminals he promised.

In the divisive episode, Rogan explained to Florida Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna his belief that the president has been alienating his supporters by carrying out these extensive and heavily publicized raids.

Around 493,000 migrants have been deported since Trump took office in January, while another 1.6 million have self-deported, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who has been credited with handling immigration policies under both of Trump’s administrations, declared over the summer that the president wants at least 3,000 ICE arrests per day.

According to the Washington Examiner, Miller berated ICE agents in May and told them to start targeting places like Home Depot and 7-Eleven stores, where many day laborers and workers can be found.