Ahead of the weekend, Republican Presidential candidate and Former US President Donald Trump sat for nearly three hours on “The Joe Rogan Experience”. The most listened-to podcast host, Joe Rogan claimed that the “timing was perfect” for a podcast with Trump. After refraining from the conversations for several years, Rogan was inspired to host him after the latter suffered an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Earlier in 2022, in a podcast with Lex Fridman, Rogan said, “I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once, I’ve said ‘no’ every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”
The much-anticipated Donald Trump Joe Rogan podcast was recorded in Austin, Texas. It is pertinent to note that Rogan has a large audience base with 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube. The nation’s most popular and tuned podcast host, Rogan is extremely influential with young male voters, a target audience for Trump.
During the podcast, Donald Trump stressed that his biggest mistake during his presidency was hiring “disloyal people”. Trump dubbed the presidency job a “very dangerous business”.
Minutes later, in a moment of self-reflection, Trump told Rogan that his “biggest mistake” in his first term was appointing some “bad people” to his administration.
This includes National Security Advisor John Bolton and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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Trump on Butler assassination attempt
Referring to the Butler assassination attempt, Trump showed the scar he suffered from a bullet injury. Regarding his mark behind his right ear, he said, “It zicked right there.”
To which, Rogan said, “It healed up pretty f–king good.”
Trump added, “It’s not like some of the wrestlers, some of the UFC fighters… it was sort of like a top shot. The thing’s taken off a little bit. But it makes me a tougher guy.”
Contrasting his experiences, Donald Trump said getting inside the White House for the first time was surreal however getting shot at was not. He said, “When I was lying there, I knew exactly what was going on.”
Jaw-Dropping Rogan-Trump Interview Crushes Kamala Harris Campaign
The full three-hour talk summarized in less than 10 minutes.
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Donald Trump goes hammer and tong on his rival Kamala Harris in the 3 hour podcast, calling her a “very low IQ person”
Trump came down heavily on his Democratic challenger Kamala Harris and went on to call her a “very low IQ person”.
During the interaction, he spoke on a host of issues including overhauling the tax system, Kamala Harris, assassination attempts, and election fraud among others.
Dubbing incumbent Vice President Harris a “low IQ person”, Trump said, “She couldn’t put two sentences together” and contrasted it with his own “dynamic oratory style”.
He said, “Kamala is a very low IQ person. She has a very low IQ, you know. I am for taking tests too. I think anybody who runs for president should take the test.”
He reiterated his campaign themes and proposed drastic tax changes and argued that the US could drop income taxes entirely in favour of tariffs. He then switched to Elon Musk’s endorsement of his candidacy.
Referring to Musk, Trump said, “He gave me the nicest endorsement. You should do the same thing, Joe, because you cannot be voting for Kamala. You’re not a Kamala person. I know you.”
In the interactive session, Trump also reiterated his claim of election fraud in the 2020 US Presidential elections stating that he didn’t lose to Joe Biden.
He asserted, “I didn’t lose, but they say I lost, Joe.”
When Joe Rogan sought evidence, Trump cited irregularities with the ballots in Wisconsin adding that Democrats “used Covid to cheat”. He said, “I lost by, like, I didn’t lose.”
Democrats suffered a devastating blow when Rogan concluded that the “only thing that makes sense” for why Dem politicians would oppose voter ID is because “they want to cheat.”
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‘Enemy from Within’: Donald Trump
Stating that the United States of America has no problem with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump said, “I say it to people, we have a bigger problem, in my opinion, with the enemy from within. It drives them crazy when I use that term (enemy from within). We have an enemy from within, we have people that are really bad people, that I really think want to make this country unsuccessful.”
Meanwhile, in a stinging dig at the Democrats, Rogan admitted that he could not understand any rationale to oppose electoral voter id other than “cheating”.
