Donald Trump on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ – what did he say? – Desert News

Former President Donald Trump spoke with podcaster Joe Rogan in Austin, Texas, on Friday, engaging in a friendly, freewheeling conversation that lasted just under three hours. Other than causing Trump to be late At a rally that evening in Michigan, the performance resulted in no election-changing headlines, with the two men clearly simpatico on most of the issues they discussed, ranging from windmills to the legitimacy of the 2020 election to mixed martial arts.

The show was hailed as a “get” for Trump because Rogan, arguably the most popular podcaster in the US, has said in the past that he didn’t want him on the show or help him in any way. way. That apparently changed after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13; Rogan said he wanted to have Trump as a guest after the shooting, but it was all in “the timing.” He also told Trump he wants to have a similar conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris and still hopes she agrees, saying, “I would like to have a conversation with her.”

If you haven’t listened to (or watched) the show yet. YouTube), here are five exchanges that received media attention.

Donald Trump, whale psychiatrist?

The men talked a lot about energy and agreed that nuclear energy has gotten a bad name and is safer and cleaner than in the past. They also agreed that some forms of “green” energy production, such as wind turbines, are ultimately harmful. They noted that the blades cannot be recycled and often end up in landfills, and they talked about the damage the noise does to whales.

While the government say there is no evidence that offshore wind energy development has contributed to whale deaths, others believe wind farms contribute to whale strandings, and Trump at one point joked, “I want to be a whale psychiatrist.” The whales freak out if something happens to them, but they’re going to wash up, and yet they don’t talk about the environmentalists, right?”

Trump still believes he won in 2020

In response to a question from Rogan about the 2020 election, Trump said, “I don’t want to get you into an argument, but I won that second election so easily.” Rogan asked him to explain why, and Trump said he would be happy to go into details another time, saying, “I would bring in papers that you wouldn’t believe, so many different papers. That election was so crooked, it was the most crooked election.”

Once again Rogan asked for examples. Trump responded by saying without specifics that “they” were intended as legislative approval for things like voting expansions or early voting. “You don’t have to go any further than that.” He also said Wisconsin officials “virtually admitted that the election was rigged, robbed and stolen,” claiming the ballots were not all signed or original. And he brought up the media’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which The New York Post broke three weeks before the 2020 election, and argued that reporting on the story would have made a difference in the election results. Instead, it was widely reported to be part of one Russian disinformation campaign.

While Rogan tried to pressure Trump to be more specific, he appeared to agree with some of the former president’s points. He said of the allegations: “That’s an ongoing narrative that gets into people’s heads — especially people with little information who just watch the news — that you’re colluding with Russia.” He also noted that social media companies were not allowing people to share the Post’s story. “These three things… each one of them in itself makes the outcome (of the election) different,” Trump said. Rogan agreed, saying, “That’s right.”

Trump shares his concerns with RFK Jr. about American health

Although known as a fan of McDonald’s, Trump has worked with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the leading voices who say the American diet is making them sick and that radical changes are needed to improve American health. Rogan agreed, saying the money America sends to Ukraine could help improve the nutrition of people who live in big cities and have limited access to affordable, fresh and healthy food. Trump told Rogan that he is committed to keeping Kennedy part of the government, even though he disagrees with Kennedy on some environmental issues: “He doesn’t like oil… I like oil, I guess. …So I said: focus on health, and you can do whatever you want, but I have to be a little careful with the liquid gold.

Trump reveals his ‘biggest mistake’ to Rogan

Harris dodged Anderson Cooper’s question on one CNN town hall about what her biggest mistake, personally or professionally, was over the past four years, and Cooper said he didn’t think he’d ever heard Trump say he made a mistake. But Trump Rogan said Which he said was his biggest mistake during his presidency, saying, “I picked some people I shouldn’t have picked.”

In response to questions about the early days of his presidency, Trump said a president makes decisions that affect about 10,000 positions, but about 100 of them are the most important, such as the Treasury Department, the State Department and the military. It can be difficult, he said, for a D.C. outsider like himself to know how to trust. (Trump said he had only been to Washington, DC, 17 times before becoming president, and had never even spent the night.) “I had to rely on people I respected and liked, but didn’t know very well.”

Although he campaigned on “draining the swamp,” Trump said he felt “it’s dangerous to choose anyone outside of a politician (for a job) because politicians have been vetted.” He also said that third-party candidacies will never work because “it’s pure and simple: it’s a two-party system.”

Trump is always ready to take a swipe at Mitt Romney

It took less than four minutes for Trump to attack Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, saying that in a poll of potential candidates a few years before the 2016 election, he said: “I blew him away, which honestly isn’t that hard is. .” He later called the 2012 election “the Romney disaster.” While Romney may be considered for a position in Harris’ administration some people hopethere will probably be no invitation if there is a second Trump administration.

Will the Rogan podcast help Trump?

As of Saturday afternoon, the show had been viewed more than 18 million times on YouTube, but it is unclear whether the interview will have a significant effect at the ballot box. Trump was already leading Harris by 35 points among Rogan fans before the podcast’s release, Mediaite reported.