'It's nuts': Joe Rogan blames Trump if 'Iran nukes New York City'

Podcaster Joe Rogan expressed the view that President Donald Trump's war with Iran would be to blame if a nuclear weapon were used on New York City.

During a discussion with comedian Ari Shaffir on Thursday, Rogan lamented Israel's bombardment of Gaza following Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

"They've destroyed Gaza," he explained. "Gaza's just a wasteland now. I mean, someone posted a recent video of Gaza, like what it looked like now."

"It's crazy. It looks like they dropped a nuke. They just did it slowly instead of dropping one nuke," he continued. "But guess what? Those kids that live in Gaza, they didn't do October 7th. They didn't do it."

Rogan speculated that a similar scenario could take place in New York City.

"It's like what we did to Iran. What if Iran nukes New York City?" he asked. "Those kids that live in the Bronx, they had nothing to do with what happened in Iran, and so, like, is that okay?"

"Like what are we talking about, this is it's [expletive] nuts," he added.

"We gotta start figuring out a peace thing, and then that's all that's all gone now," Shaffir remarked.

"It's all gone," Rogan agreed.