Infowars Host Announces Split With Alex Jones After Boss Complained He Was ‘Too Anti-Trump’
Infowars host Owen Shroyer announced on Monday that he was leaving the organization after Alex Jones complained he was “too anti-Trump” and “negative.”
In a livestream titled, “Why I Am Leaving Infowars,” Shroyer revealed he had been clashing with Jones behind the scenes for some time until he finally snapped and decided to leave the company this week.
“Alex had been coming into my show and talking about how I’m negative and calling me a pessimist and all this other stuff, which is fine. You work for Alex, you’re gonna get hit with it a lot. Alex is not easy to work for,” said Shroyer. “He says I’m too negative, he says I’m a pessimist, whatever, I’m too anti-Trump. So I just said, alright, you know what? I’ll just take some time off, I’ll just disappear, and if Alex thinks I’m too negative then maybe he’s right.”
He continued, “But the same issues that I had started up immediately as soon as I came back, and it’s not to say that I didn’t have creative control over the Infowars War Room, but I mean, imagine it’s like someone staring over your back 24/7. And so every single day that I came back, it was either a guest that I was told I had on at the last minute or it was, you know, him coming into the studio. He wants me to cover this, he wants me to cover that.”
“I couldn’t do what I wanted to do,” complained Shroyer, who likened Jones to a “babysitter.”
Shroyer claimed that after a final discussion with Jones this week, the Infowars founder told him, “OK, we don’t need you. Good luck.”
“That’s it as far as I’m concerned,” said Shroyer. “So I’m not gonna be going back in, I’m not gonna be hosting the War Room.”
The Infowars host also complained that he hadn’t received a raise since 2018, claiming he was “basically just living paycheck-to-paycheck at this point” as the cost of living rises.
“I feel like I can’t even control my own show,” Shroyer concluded. “Alex said to me on the phone he’s not unhappy with me, he thinks I do great work, and I hope he means that. I don’t know. But it’s just like, when he’s constantly disrupting the show and constantly telling me what to cover and constantly telling me the guests, it just feels like I have no control anymore.”
Shroyer – who was sentenced to 60 days in prison for being present at the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots – has since become a vocal critic of President Donald Trump.
“The people that have been fighting with him since 2015, the people that were in the streets for him, the people that were in prison for him, he’s moved on from us,” said Shroyer in July after Trump lashed out at his own supporters for demanding answers about the late serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “So now we’re his past supporters, we’re hoaxers, we’re bad people.”
Shroyer went on to express concern over Trump’s health.
“I think what’s gonna start happening is Trump’s age and health is gonna become a big story,” he predicted. “He’s wearing more makeup than he normally does, including on his hands now. He’s wearing makeup on his hands for whatever reason. So things are just getting weird.”
