Podcasting titan Joe Rogan argued that Hillary Clinton‘s early 2000s political positions sat further right on the spectrum than Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s views today.
Speaking with defense tech founder Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, on his show, The Joe Rogan Experience, the host noted how Clinton would be considered ‘hardline’ today.
The former first lady and Democratic senator from New York ran against Donald Trump in 2016 and against Barack Obama in 2008, losing both White House races.
Greene, a right-wing Georgia Republican with deep ties to Trump and the MAGA movement, is considered more isolationist and pro-LGBT than Hillary’s views from two decades ago, the podcaster suggested.
‘She’d be on the right of Marjorie Taylor Greene,’ Rogan said on the episode.
Luckey riffed: ‘That’s a great point. Marjorie Taylor Greene, you’re right, she’s very pro-LGBT, she certainly is not for intervention in the Middle East.’
‘Like I’ve never thought about it though, Marjorie Taylor Greene would be far, far left of a Hillary Clinton running again today,’ Luckey continued.
Rogan, who has for years critiqued Clinton’s past political record, immediately broke out into laughter.
The congresswoman has been raising eyebrows by splitting from her party line recently, and she has been open about the distance she feels growing between her and mainstream Republicans.
Podcaster Joe Rogan joked on his show last Thursday with Anduril Industries Founder Palmer Luckey that conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s political views today would be seen as further right than those of Hillary Clinton’s in the early 2000s
Greene has condemned Republican congressional leadership in the past year and has been vocal about her criticisms of Speaker Mike Johnson
The Georgia lawmaker has decried her party’s approach to the heightened costs of living due to healthcare and housing price increases – a talking point seldom used by Republicans during Trump’s second term.
She has also warned about the president’s deportations impacting the economy.
‘We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,’ she said recently.
However, despite Luckey’s claim, Greene does not have a pro-LGBT record. Specifically, she has opposed legislation codifying same-sex marriage and bills expanding trans surgical care.
Luckey also mentioned how the government should not manage marriage, as it is a cultural and religious ceremony, and how Clinton was staunchly opposed to gay marriage for years.
‘Hillary, you might remember, even in 2008 she was against gay marriage, and she was out there, “I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman,”‘ the defense tech founder stated roughly halfway through the episode.
‘I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman,’ Clinton said in 2004 when she was a Democratic senator from New York.
In 2008, when she faced off with Obama for the presidential nomination, Clinton was still against same-sex marriage; instead, she was supportive of civil unions.
Rogan and Luckey joked that Hillary Clinton (shown above in New York in October 2025) used to hold what today would be considered conservative views on involvement in the Middle East and gay marriage
Clinton later announced her support for same-sex marriage in a 2013 video for the Human Rights Campaign.
On another recent Rogan episode, the host mentioned how Clinton at one point was ‘more MAGA than MAGA’ when it came to immigration.
‘What happened to that?’ he asked.
Greene’s office did not respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.
