Deranged left-wingers keep trying to murder President Trump.
Now, a sick truth has just come to light.
And one shocking poll about the Trump assassination attempts will put your jaw on the floor.
What the Numbers Actually Say
A YouGov/NewsGuard survey dropped this week, and the results are something else. Trump has been the subject of three assassination attempts over the last two years by lunatic leftists, and the poll — which surveyed 1,000 Americans between April 28 through May 4 — asked respondents about the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, and the attempt on his life that fall while golfing in West Palm Beach.
According to the poll, just 38% of respondents believed all three assassination attempts against Trump had been legitimate. A total of 54% said all three were staged or they weren’t sure.
One in four respondents believed the attempted attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was staged. The same was true for Butler, where 24% of respondents believed the attack was staged. Sixteen percent felt the same about the foiled plot in West Palm Beach.
And that’s not the part that should make your blood boil. Keep reading.
Rogan Reads the Numbers Live on Air
On Wednesday’s *The Joe Rogan Experience*, Rogan was joined by fellow podcaster Brendan Schaub, and the two got into political talk in the final minutes of the lengthy show.
“Nearly one third of Americans, 30%, believe — 30%! — at least one of the attempts on the president’s life over the last two years was staged,” Rogan read.
“Wooooow,” was his response.
Rogan kept going: “For each attempted assassination, a majority of Americans said either that it was staged or that they were not sure. 54% said they either thought it was staged or not sure.”
Then Rogan put the blame squarely where he thinks it belongs.
“‘Only 38% of Americans believe that all three assassination attempts were authentic.’ This is TikTok. It’s f***ing ruining people’s brains, rotting their f***ing brains out from inside their heads,” Rogan said, laughing.
Liberals’ hatred of Trump runs so deep that it warps the minds of left-wingers into buying into garabge lies about the attempts on Trump’s life.
Schaub didn’t exactly disagree. Rogan shot back, “Meanwhile, you go on Chinese TikTok. It’s all like traditional dance and martial arts and science projects.” The contrast between what American kids get fed versus what Chinese kids see on the same platform is something Rogan has hammered before, and he’s not wrong to keep raising it.
Schaub joked, “Americans, have fun. Go rot your brains.” Rogan replied, “They’re doing such a great job,” and predicted content pushed through TikTok will not change, even under new ownership.
But Rogan didn’t stop there. He added it would be “dope” if the new owners of TikTok decided to pivot the platform to a model of promoting “exceptional people doing exceptional things.” Don’t hold your breath on that one.
Who Actually Believes This Stuff
Worth noting who is driving these numbers, because it isn’t who the media wants you to think it is.
The new poll finds that doubts about the assassination attempts are far more concentrated among younger Americans and Democrats. Americans 18-29 were the most likely of any generation to believe all three events were staged. It’s a sentiment also more pronounced on the left, with 21% of Democrats feeling that way, seven times more than Republicans.
When asked about all three incidents, larger shares of Democrats say each event was staged, with 34% saying that about the Correspondents’ Dinner, 42% about Butler and 26% about Trump’s golf club.
Forty-two percent of Democrats think the Butler shooting — the one caught on camera, with a dead shooter, a dead attendee, and a President bleeding from his ear — was fake. Let that sink in.
Respondents were also asked about the July 2024 assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, where gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots towards the stage, grazing Trump’s right ear and killing one attendee. Federal investigators concluded Crooks acted alone before being shot dead by Secret Service agents.
And yet nearly a quarter of all Americans still think it was theater. The left-wing media spent years telling people Trump was a liar, a con man, a reality TV huckster playing games with the country. Now their own voters believe he staged his own near-death experience. They built this.
The TikTok Problem Nobody Wants to Fix
Rogan’s instinct to blame TikTok isn’t just a throwaway line. He specifically called out the media, arguing they radicalize people who lack the time to actually see the nuanced truth of various people and events themselves. “People hate him so much and the narrative in the media, this Trump Derangement narrative that you see in the media is so strong and people are so programmed by it,” Rogan said.
The platform feeds whatever keeps people scrolling. Outrage keeps people scrolling. Conspiracy keeps people scrolling. And a generation raised on short-form video has no patience for the kind of slow, documented, evidence-based reality that shows up in federal indictments or congressional testimony.
Those views came despite numerous witnesses in Butler and Washington, D.C., and detailed federal indictments against the suspects in the Florida plot and the shooting at the Correspondents’ Dinner. None of that moved the needle for people who get their information in fifteen-second clips.
Trump himself weighed in after the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. During an interview with *60 Minutes* the day after the dinner, Trump dismissed claims that the incident was staged. “I think they’re more sick than they are con people,” Trump said, alluding to individuals pushing such conspiracy theories. “But there’s a lot of con in there too.”
The White House didn’t mince words either. In a statement to USA Today, spokesman Davis Ingle said, “Anyone who thinks President Trump staged his own assassination attempts is a complete moron.”
Strong words. And probably not wrong.
What This Actually Means Going Forward
The real story here isn’t just one podcast moment or one poll. It’s what happens to a country when a significant chunk of the population can no longer agree on basic documented reality. Three attempts on a sitting President’s life — one caught in real time on national television — and more than half the country either doubts it or can’t say for sure. That’s not a polling quirk. That’s a rot that goes deep.
The media wants to gaslight Americans into thinking it’s Trump supporters who spread misinformation online so Democrats can justify censoring the internet when they take power.
But the real vector for online conspiracy theories is the left.
Rogan has been sounding alarms about media manipulation and social media brain damage for years. Podcaster Joe Rogan spoke to U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) about the multiple attempts on President Donald Trump’s life, arguing the media’s “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is partially to blame. But even Rogan seemed genuinely rattled this time. The “Wooooow” wasn’t a bit. That was a man staring at a number he didn’t expect.
Sources: Mediaite, NPR, Fox News, IBTimes UK, NewsGuard/YouGov poll (April 28 — May 4, 2026)