Joe Rogan suggests Biden didn't actually get a booster shot on live TV because he could've died or blacked out

Written by Alex Paterson

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On the September 30 edition of his Spotify podcast, Joe Rogan baselessly suggested that President Joe Biden did not actually receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, falsely claiming that it would be unsafe and potentially deadly to do so on live TV. 

In reality, Biden received a booster shot for the Pfizer vaccine during a September 27 event that was televised live. On September 22, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had authorized a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for certain populations that are at greater risk of contracting the virus, including “individuals 65 years of age and older.” 

Nonetheless, Rogan baselessly fearmongered about the vaccine’s safety, asserting, “I think if they were going to give him a booster shot, the last thing they would do is give it to him live on television. What if he dies? … What if he blacks out? What if he like gets it and faints?”

From the September 30, 2021, edition of Spotify's The Joe Rogan Experience 

JOE ROGAN (HOST): Do you think [Joe Biden] got a booster? Do you think that was a real booster?

MIKE BAKER (FORMER CIA OFFICER): You mentioned that before -- before we started talking, and I hadn't thought about it before. But you know what, when I watched it on TV, when I watched, you know, him getting his shot, his mask on, all I could think of was this was performance art.

ROGAN: I don’t think they would take the chance.

BAKER: So the next step of performance art would be like not giving him the booster but just giving him a shot.

ROGAN: I think if they were going to give him a booster shot, the last thing they would do is give it to him live on television. What if he dies? 

BAKER: Right. Right.

ROGAN: What if he blacks out? What if he like gets it and faints? Like, because people have had very bad reactions like in the moment for whatever reason.

BAKER: Right. Right. No, they still -- I think they still tell you, you know, they give you the shot, and then they’ll say stick around for 10 or 15 minutes. They want to make sure you don’t, you know, fall down. So, I agree because every other step of the way with any president, they're so careful. 

ROGAN: Yes.

BAKER: Right. So careful about the messaging, the optics, the security issues related to it. It would be not unheard of, lets put it that way.

ROGAN: Unless Kamala Harris talked him into it.