The chaotic streaming personality made the claim in the Thanksgiving edition of his show after earlier slagging off Zelensky for launching missiles into Russia.

Rogan didn't explain whether he refused to let Zelensky on the podcast, or if, like with Vice President Kamala Harris, they simply couldn't make it happen.

He was discussing the nearly three-year invasion with his guests and whether the conflict could escalate into another world war. 

'I don't really think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's that stupid. I think he's gonna realize what's going on and I think they're probably working this out,' he said.

'Alex Jones said Trump is having secret meetings at Mar-a-Lago, I hope it's true.' 

Jones is a conspiracy theorist podcaster who made a career out of lies and misinformation until he was sued into bankruptcy by the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims. 

Rogan then out of left field dropped in 'Zelensky tried to come on', shocking his three guests, fellow podcasters Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir.

'They tried to get Zelensky on. I was like, what are you talking about?' he added.

Rogan then detailed how guests were generally chosen and booked for his show but didn't go into specifics about Zelensky.

By contrast, fellow pro-Trump podcaster Lex Fridman said on Saturday he was so keen to do a three-hour podcast with Zelensky he would even travel to Ukraine for it.

'Agreed. See you in Ukraine,' Zelensky replied to Fridman's tweet.

Just a week earlier, Rogan lashed out at the Ukrainian leader after US President Joe Biden gave his military permission to use American-made missiles to bomb Russia.

Zelensky says Putin is terrified. F**k you, man. F**k you people. You people are about to start World War III,' he said.