Owen Shroyer, a longtime host at Infowars and one of the network’s most prominent voices, reportedly announced Monday that he was leaving the outlet following clashes with its founder, Alex Jones. The dispute, according to Shroyer, centered on Jones’ frustration that his on-air commentary had become “too anti-Trump” and “negative.”
In a livestream titled “Why I Am Leaving Infowars,” Shroyer described months of growing tension behind the scenes. “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,” Shroyer explained. “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.”
The reprieve did little to resolve the conflict. Shroyer said that upon returning, he found himself under tighter scrutiny. “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,” he said. “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.”
Shroyer likened Jones’ oversight to that of a “babysitter.” After a final discussion this week, Jones delivered his verdict: “OK, we don’t need you. Good luck.”
“That’s it as far as I’m concerned,” Shroyer told viewers. “So I’m not gonna be going back in, I’m not gonna be hosting the War Room.”
The departure, Shroyer added, was compounded by financial strain. He said he had not received a raise since 2018 and was “basically just living paycheck-to-paycheck at this point” as costs climbed.
“I feel like I can’t even control my own show,” he 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’s break with Infowars also reflects his growing distance from Trump. Once a vocal supporter, Shroyer has in recent months sharpened his criticisms. “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,” Shroyer said in July, after Trump bristled at supporters pressing him on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. “So now we’re his past supporters, we’re hoaxers, we’re bad people.”
He even raised questions about Trump’s health. “I think what’s gonna start happening is Trump’s age and health is gonna become a big story,” Shroyer said.
“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.”
For Infowars, Shroyer’s exit marks the loss of a host who once rallied behind Trump but now openly doubts him. For conservatives, it highlights a deeper divide between those who remain loyal to the president and those who say he has turned his back on the movement that propelled him to power.
[READ MORE: Federal Judge Rules Against Trump in Stunning National Guard Deployment Case]
