In his first look on the wildly in style Joe Rogan Expertise podcast, former president and 2024 GOP nominee Donald Trump touched on cultural and political points that he’s addressed prior to now.
He famous that the Ukraine struggle wouldn’t have occurred if he have been president; complained that moderators didn’t fact-check Kamala Harris sufficient throughout their one debate; and doubled down on his ideas that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
At one level within the three-hour dialog, Joe Rogan requested Trump to additional clarify how the election was stolen, as he has falsely continued to insist for the final 4 years. The previous president started to reply in a protracted, rambly approach, stating that sure adjustments in election regulation weren’t correctly accepted.
“That election was so crooked, it was probably the most crooked election,” Trump famous, as Rogan requested for concrete examples.
“Effectively, let’s begin, let’s begin on the high and the straightforward ones. They have been purported to get legislative approval to do the issues they did, and so they didn’t get it in lots of instances. They didn’t get it,” he stated, because the podcast host requested, once more, “What issues?”
“Something,” Trump continued, to which Rogan requested, “Legislative approval of?”
“Like for extensions of the voting, for voting earlier. All various things. By regulation, they needed to get legislative approvals,” the presidential candidate stated. “You don’t must go any additional than that. In case you check out Wisconsin, they just about admitted that the election was rigged, robbed and stolen. They wouldn’t give entry in sure areas to the ballots as a result of the ballots weren’t signed. They weren’t originals. They have been… We may go into these things. We may go into the ballots, or we may go into the general. I’ll provide you with one other approach.”
When Rogan requested him if he would ever current this proof, he responded with “Uh.” Because the dialog went on, Trump seemingly admitted he misplaced the 2020 election earlier than strolling again what he stated and correcting himself.
“I misplaced by like… I didn’t lose, however they are saying I misplaced, Joe,” he stated. “They are saying I misplaced by 22,000 votes, that’s like one-tenth of 1 p.c lower than that. It’s a tiny little factor 22,000 votes that’s unfold over that’s unfold over this era.”
Trump is courting the male youth vote and an interview on Rogan’s present was a high prize for the candidates, because the present, which lately opened up from being unique to Spotify, is now obtainable on different platforms as effectively, together with Apple Podcasts and YouTube. Vice President Kamala Harris has been attempting to spice up her enchantment to male voters too and a Rogan interview may actually be useful, because the weekly present’s viewers skews 81 p.c male, with greater than 50 p.c underneath 35 years previous, based on a YouGov ballot.
In August, Rogan made feedback many interpreted as endorsing unbiased presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. Following his feedback, a MAGA backlash ensued and Trump shortly added to the pile-on, looking for to enflame final combating followers to activate Rogan in particular person when he wrote on his Fact Social platform, “It will likely be fascinating to see how loudly Joe Rogan will get BOOED the following time he enters the UFC Ring. MAGA2024.”
Rogan later clarified that his feedback didn’t equal an endorsement of Kennedy, who dropped out of the race quickly after the back-and-forth. Kennedy went on to endorse Trump for the presidency.
Previous to Rogan, Trump appeared on podcasts like This Week w/ Theo Vaughn and Full Ship. In the meantime, Harris has visited the Name Her Daddy podcast, in addition to Howard Stern’s Sirius XM present. The podcast appearances come amid their campaigns approaching an in depth, signaling a recent technique round non-traditional media interviews from each candidates. Polling reveals that these appearances will not be having the influence hoped for by their groups, as fewer than 30 p.c of respondents, who have been over 18, had heard both candidate’s podcast visitor spots.
Along with internet hosting his podcast, Rogan has a gig commentating for Final Preventing Championship, the combined martial arts promotion firm. Trump additionally has shut ties to the group given he considers Dana White an in depth buddy. White additionally spoke about Trump on the Republican Nationwide Conference.