{"id":43868,"date":"2026-08-14T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43868"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:47:07","slug":"shane-gillis-intentionally-avoided-taking-a-picture-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43868","title":{"rendered":"Shane Gillis Intentionally Avoided Taking a Picture with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Shane-Gillis.jpeg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1618054\" data-title=\"Shane Gillis Intentionally Avoided Taking a Picture with Trump\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/shane-gillis-trump-photo\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p>During an appearance on <em>The Joe Rogan Experience<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/consequnce.net\/tag\/shane-gillis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane Gillis<\/a> admitted he is off the Trump bandwagon, revealing that he intentionally declined an invitation to the VIP room at UFC 250 at the White House earlier this summer because he wanted to avoid being photographed with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew those photos would be taken,\u201d Gillis explained. \u201cI stood outside in the rain. I said, \u2018I\u2019m not getting my picture taken.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gillis previously posed for a photos with Trump, but added, \u201cThat was pre-a lot of things. Back then, when I was taking that picture, I was like, \u2018This guy\u2019s gonna release the Epstein Files, and no more wars. I like that.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the comedian added, \u201cI still didn\u2019t vote for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Rogan: I was at the White House, so was Shane.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Gillis: Let&#8217;s stop bringing that up. Back then, when I was taking that picture, I was like, this guy&#8217;s gonna release the Epstein Files, and no more wars. I like that. Also, I still didn&#8217;t vote for him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aCcpQNtEYS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aCcpQNtEYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HQNewsNow\/status\/2088005999336599955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=1;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('set','agent','tmgoogletagmanager', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('track', \"PageView\");\n\t<\/script><script defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v7.0&#038;appId=434175690014\" nonce=\"6gwmbCtM\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Shane Gillis admitted he is off the Trump bandwagon, revealing that he intentionally declined an invitation to the VIP room at UFC 250 at the White House earlier this summer because he wanted to avoid being photographed with Donald Trump. \u201cI knew those photos would be taken,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Shane-Gillis.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}