Donald Trump Tells Joe Rogan the Biggest Mistake of His Presidency

Donald Trump sat down with Joe Rogan to report a three-hour interview for “The Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast Friday. The episode was launched later Friday night.

Within the wide-ranging dialogue, Trump stated his largest mistake throughout his time within the White Home was hiring “dangerous individuals, or disloyal individuals.” The previous president additionally repeated unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” — however when Rogan requested him if he was going to launch proof proving the election was “stolen,” Trump modified the topic. Trump’s prerecorded interview with Rogan occurred on the comic and podcast host’s studio in Austin, Texas.

Rogan requested Trump whether or not the ex-president had made “dangerous decisions” in appointing White Home officers. Trump, after boasting about his Supreme Court docket nominees, acknowledged that “the largest mistake I made” was “I picked some those who I shouldn’t have picked.” Rogan requested if Trump was referring to “neocons,” to which Trump replied, “Yeah, neocons, or dangerous individuals, or disloyal individuals.”

On this context, Trump named two former members of his administration: John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps common who had been Trump’s chief of employees, and John Bolton, his nationwide safety adviser — each of whom have been sharply crucial of Trump and the risks he poses. Kelly and Bolton are among the many many former Trump officers who’ve turn out to be extremely crucial of the ex-president since serving underneath him. In an interview with the New York Instances this week, Kelly stated Trump met the definition of a fascist and had no understanding of the Structure — and confirmed earlier stories that Trump made admiring statements about Adolf Hitler.

Within the interview with Rogan, Trump known as Kelly “a bully however a weak individual” and stated he’s “dangerous,” whereas he disparaged Bolton as “an fool.”

Rogan pressed Trump concerning the former president’s assertions “that you simply had been robbed in 2020,” when Trump was defeated by Joe Biden within the U.S. presidential election.

“How do you assume you had been robbed?” Rogan queried, per Mediaite’s recap of the change. Trump stated, “That election was so crooked, it was probably the most crooked election.” Rogan requested for some examples. Trump replied, “Properly, let’s begin, let’s begin on the prime and the straightforward ones. They had been presupposed to get legislative approval to do the issues they did, they usually didn’t get it in lots of instances, they didn’t get it.” Rogan needed to know what “legislative approval” he was speaking about. Trump continued: “Like for extensions of the voting, for voting earlier. All these various things. By legislation, they needed to get legislative approvals. You don’t need to go any additional than that. Should 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 had been — we might go into these things. We might go into the ballots, or we might go into the general.”

Rogan then requested Trump, “Are you gonna current this ever?” Trump seemingly ignored the query and as a substitute introduced up the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop computer, which was first reported by the New York Publish simply earlier than the 2020 election. A letter signed by 51 former intelligence officers on the time of the preliminary story’s publication stated “they believed that the contents of the laptop computer — stuffed with proof of drug use, prostitution and international enterprise offers — could possibly be a part of a Russian marketing campaign aimed toward influencing the election,” the New York Instances reported. Nonetheless, the laptop computer was certainly Hunter Biden’s. On Rogan’s present, Trump repeated unsubstantiated GOP claims that the doubts sowed concerning the laptop computer’s authenticity in some way helped President Biden’s election.

Rogan and Trump vibed on quite a lot of subjects. Rogan claimed that “The rebels are Republicans now” and known as conservatives “punk rock,” whereas “The liberals are actually pro-silencing criticism. They’re pro-censorship. They discuss regulating free speech. It’s bananas to observe.” Trump responded, “They arrive after their political opponents. They did one thing that’s solely completed in third-world international locations.” Trump added, with out providing any supporting proof, “I might have put crooked Hillary [Clinton] in jail.”

As well as, Rogan requested Trump if he’s “fully dedicated” to appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his administration. In August, Kennedy suspended his impartial presidential marketing campaign and endorsed Trump. Trump responded, “Oh, I fully am. However the one factor I need to be slightly cautious about with him is the environmental. As a result of he doesn’t like oil. I like oil and fuel.”

The total episode of “The Joe Rogan Expertise” with Trump is accessible on YouTube and Spotify.

In a publish on X, Rogan stated the YouTube add was quickly suspended after a technical drawback delayed the episode’s distribution on Spotify. “There is no such thing as a problem with YouTube censoring the trump episode,” Rogan wrote. “It was simply presupposed to go stay on each Spotify and YouTube on the identical time and there was a glitch in Spotify’s add system and so we delisted the YouTube hyperlink till it’s fastened. It ought to be advantageous now.”