Our nation has healed: Theo Von squashed the beef with Logan Paul after he fell out of his chair at Trump's inauguration

Inauguration Day for Donald Trump was a time of heightened emotions for a nation healing from a contentious election. For one man, this was tumultuous not just in the soul, but literally: The podcaster Theo Von fell out of his folding chair in the audience at the inaugural ceremony.

Here's what happened:

Von's folding chair seemed to collapse, and Logan Paul, who was sitting right behind him, posted a video of it on X.

For some context, Trump appeared as a guest on both of the men's podcasts during his 2024 campaign.

Trump's various podcast appearances were considered a cunning strategy to appeal to young male voters that helped him win the election.

Von, Paul, and other podcasters like Joe Rogan were invited to attend the inauguration.

After Von fell out of his chair, he accused Paul and his brother, Jake, of somehow tampering with the chair as a prank, quote-tweeting his post with "thought we was past the pranks boys."

Logan Paul denied that he was involved. He suggested that Von was to blame as he sat in a chair he knew had a structural flaw.

But thankfully, two days later, the two podcasting giants had worked out their beef.

(Von and Paul did not respond to requests for additional comment, and to be fair, we can't say for certain the chair mishap wasn't a stunt, though it does look real.)

As a side note, I'd like you to please observe in Paul's video that you can see OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang looking on, first in apparent shock and then amusement.

I know what you're thinking: Why should I care about this, and in fact why should I even know about this? You're desperate to rewind to two minutes ago before you knew any of this ever happened because now you are forever cursed to walk this earth until your dying day with the sentence "Theo Von and Logan Paul squashed their beef over inaugural chairgate" rattling around in your brain.

But you can't go back. You have this knowledge now. You know that Theo Von fell out of his chair and blamed Logan Paul (who denied it), but now they have made up. Don't look away from this. Accept that you are now changed. This is who you are. You're someone who knows all the details of a feud that started in the overflow audience room at the presidential inauguration.

Like the folding chair, our nation and our democracy can be unstable. But like the bonds of friendship between two men who podcast, our nation can always heal.

Correction: January 23, 2025 — An earlier version of this story misspelled Theo Von's name.