Dana White is jubilant. The head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the mixed martial arts league, is invited to speak on the same stage as Donald Trump, on Wednesday, November 6, just after the Republican candidate declared his victory in the race for the presidency of the United States.
After having extensively praised the merits of who will be the 47thmy The country’s president, Dana White, concludes, with a smiling Donald Trump behind him: “I want to quickly thank a few people: the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin’With The Boys and finally, the mighty Joe Rogan. » So many names that will not necessarily have been recognized by all the Americans hanging on their screens this election night, but that have nevertheless fueled, in recent months, a powerful galaxy of influencers who support the billionaire’s candidacy for the White House.
Followed and seen online by millions of Internet users on their channels (7.1 million for Adin Ross on Instagram alone, for example), they present themselves as podcasters, streamers, YouTubers or comedians. In addition to having made discriminatory or hateful comments, the most recent thing they have in common is having welcomed, in the last few hours, the result of the US elections.
On the social network of Donald Trump’s victory. “Shit!” “, we can hear the very popular radio host exclaim with laughter. An hour earlier, American-Canadian YouTubers Nelk Boys were also ecstatic: “When you think they had Beyoncé, Eminem, LeBron, Taylor Swift and so many others and they still lost. The people have spoken. »
“Truth and God have won in America”
Joe Rogan, older than most of the influencers who rallied to Donald Trump’s cause, was one of the most active online transmitters of the presidential candidate’s ideas and misinformation. UFC commentator and comedian, this 55-year-old American presents the “Joe Rogan Experience.” In this widely listened to podcast (first in the United States on Spotify, also followed by 18.3 million subscribers on YouTube), he talks for hours with his guests.
After offering his microphone to numerous conspiratorial and anti-vaccine figures, the confident conservative warmly welcomed Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance in the two weeks before the election. In recent months, he has also received billionaire Elon Musk and presenter Tucker Carlson on several occasions, also fervent supporters of the Republican side.
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