Former President Trump taped “The Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast for practically three hours on Friday.
The podcast, recorded in Austin, Texas, afforded the Republican presidential nominee publicity to Rogan’s 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube. Rogan, the nation’s most-listened-to podcast host, is extraordinarily influential with younger male voters, who Trump is aiming to succeed in.
Listed here are the highest takeaways from the podcast that aired on Friday.
Trump reveals the ‘greatest mistake’ he made throughout his first time period
Trump informed Rogan that he regretted a number of the appointments he made in his first time period.
“The one query that you will ask me that I believe you will ask me that individuals appear to ask – and I all the time provide you with the identical reply – if I, the one mistake as a result of I had a variety of success, nice economic system, nice everyth, the whole lot was nice with the navy rebuilt the most important tax cuts in historical past, all of the stuff we did, we had an incredible presidency,” Trump mentioned. “Three Supreme Court docket justices. Most individuals get none. You already know, you decide them younger this fashion. They’re there for 50 years. Proper. So, you recognize, even when a president is there for eight years, oftentimes they by no means have an opportunity. I had three. It was the luck of the draw.”
“However I’ll say that it all the time comes again to the identical reply,” Trump mentioned. “The largest mistake I made was I picked some folks, I picked some nice folks, you recognize, however you do not take into consideration that. I picked some folks that I should not have picked. I picked a couple of folks that I should not have picked.”
“And neocons,” Rogan mentioned.
“Yeah, neocons or unhealthy folks or disloyal folks,” Trump mentioned.
Trump asks Rogan to elucidate why he is gotten unhealthy publicity: ‘You mentioned a variety of wild s—’
Whereas explaining the method of selecting political nominations as soon as he received into workplace, Trump mentioned his preliminary appointment of John Bolton, who served as White Home Nationwide Safety adviser. In 2019, Trump fired Bolton, who stays a staunch critic. Trump described how Phil Ruffin, a fellow American businessman, warned him that Bolton was a “unhealthy man,” however by then, Trump had already employed him.
Podcast host Joe Rogan informed former President Trump he has gotten so common with People because of the “wild s—” he says. (The Joe Rogan Expertise)
“And he was proper. However he was good in a sure manner. He is a nut job. And each time I needed to cope with a rustic once they noticed this whack job standing behind me, they mentioned, ‘Man, Trump’s going to go to battle with us.’ He was with Bush once they went stupidly into the Center East. They need to have by no means accomplished it. I used to say it as a civilian, so I all the time received extra publicity than different folks,” Trump mentioned.
“It wasn’t like I used to be attempting,” Trump mentioned. “In actual fact, I do not know precisely why. Possibly you’ll be able to inform me.”
“I might undoubtedly let you know,” Rogan provided. “You mentioned a variety of wild s—. … After which CNN in all their brilliance by highlighting your wild s— made you rather more common. They usually increase you within the polls as a result of folks had been uninterested in somebody speaking on this bulls— pre-prepared politician lingo. And even when they did not agree with you, they at the very least knew whoever that man is, that is him. That is actually him.”
Rogan tells Trump ‘the rebels are Republicans now,’ Elon Musk agrees
“The rebels are Republicans now, although, such as you need to be invisible, you need to be punk rock, you need to like, buck the system? You are a conservative now,” Rogan mentioned. “That is how loopy. After which the liberals are actually pro-silencing criticism. They’re pro-censorship on-line. … [T]hey are available regulating free speech and now regulating the First Modification. It is bananas to look at.”
Elon Musk, who took over Twitter — now X — in 2022, responded to the clip, writing, “Precisely.”
“You already know they arrive after their political opponent,” Trump informed Rogan in response. “I have been investigated greater than Alfonse Capone.”
Trump says he informed North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to ‘simply chill out,’ ‘go to the seashore’
In his assembly with former President Obama through the presidential transition interval, Trump recalled, “Obama thought we had been going to go to battle with North Korea.” Rogan then referenced how Trump dubbed North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man” early on in his first time period.
“I mentioned, ‘Little Rocket Man, you are going to burn in hell.’ And it was tough,” Trump mentioned. “I received to know him higher than anyone, anyone. And I mentioned, ‘Do you ever do anything? Why do not you go take it simple and chill out? Go to the seashore?’ You already know, kiddingly, I mentioned, ‘You are all the time constructing nuclear. Simply chill out. You do not have to do it. Let’s construct some condos.'”
Trump discusses ‘Make America Wholesome Once more,’ initiative, says he informed RFK Jr. ‘simply deal with well being’
Rogan praised Trump for partnering with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “Make America Wholesome Once more” and requested the Republican presidential nominee if he would utterly decide to having Kennedy, a former unbiased presidential candidate, as a part of his administration.
“Oh, I’m, however the one factor I need to be slightly cautious about with him is the environmental. As a result of, you recognize, he would not like oil. I really like oil,” Trump mentioned. “I believe simply maintain him out of the hearth. So I’ll maintain him out of slightly bit. I mentioned deal with well being. Focus. You can do no matter you need, however, I received to be slightly bit cautious with the liquid gold.”
Rogan, exhibiting Trump charts, referenced how “there are chemical compounds and components in our meals which are unlawful in different international locations as a result of they have been proven to be poisonous.”
“There’s pesticides and herbicides, and there is a variety of sh– that is been sprayed on our meals that actually is pointless,” the podcaster mentioned. “And there is a variety of well being penalties.” Rogan added that Kennedy just lately informed him that “greater than 70% of younger males are ineligible for the navy due to their well being.”
“However RFK goes to be – you recognize I believe he is an incredible man,” Trump mentioned.
Rogan additionally requested if Trump confronted stress to not work with Kennedy.
JOE ROGAN TELLS TRUMP THE ‘WILD S—‘ HE SAYS FUELED HIS POPULARITY DURING THREE HOUR PODCAST INTERVIEW
“However I’d say that the Large Pharma wasn’t thrilled once they heard that,” Trump mentioned. “I’ve truly all the time gotten alongside very effectively with him. I’ve identified him a very long time. He is a distinct type of a man. He is very good, nice man, and he is very honest about this. I imply, he actually is. You already know, he thinks we lay our a fortune on pesticides and all these items, after which you find yourself at that chart is a horrible shot.”
Trump blasts botched Afghanistan withdrawal, ‘silly’ Milley for abandoning billions of {dollars} value of apparatus
Rogan and Trump mentioned the botched Afghanistan withdrawal below the Biden-Harris administration. Along with the 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport, Rogan referenced how the USA left behind billions of {dollars} value of apparatus now seen in Taliban navy parades.
Trump mentioned President Biden ought to have fired everybody concerned in planning the withdrawal, taking difficulty with retired Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers below Trump and Biden.
Trump mentioned U.S. troops ought to have left final from Bagram Air Base as a result of it is situated “one hour away from the place China makes its nuclear missiles” and may have taken all their tools with them.
“Each aircraft, each screw ought to have been taken out, each tent. And I mentioned that. That is once I realized that Milley was a dummy. I mentioned, ‘we’re leaving, however I need to get the whole lot out,'” Trump mentioned.
“‘Sir, it is cheaper to depart it,'” Trump mentioned Milley informed him.
“It is cheaper to depart it?” Rogan requested. “Yeah, he mentioned it is cheaper to depart it,” Trump affirmed.
“Cheaper?” Rogan requested once more. “No more harmful?”
“He simply mentioned cheaper,” Trump mentioned. “I mentioned ‘I would like each aircraft, I would like each tank, I would like the goggles, mentioned night time goggles. They’ve all these items that these guys now have.’ He mentioned, ‘sir, it is cheaper to get out and go away it.’ I mentioned, so that you suppose it is cheaper to depart $150 million model new airplane in there than it’s to fly it out with a tank of jet gasoline and put it in Pakistan, or simply fly it instantly again?”
“‘It is cheaper to depart it.’ I mentioned, ‘this man’s nuts,'” Trump added. “I am telling you, he was so silly. He was so unwise. He was like an unwise man. And there have been plenty of them.”
Trump additionally recalled how he spoke with Taliban’s chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
“I had a few conversations with Abdul, and from the time I had these conversations, as a result of they had been taking pictures our troopers, you recognize, with the sniper stuff,” Trump mentioned. “They had been taking pictures lots with Obama, a lot much less with me. However they had been taking pictures them. And I mentioned, get this man on the telephone. The press went nuts once they heard this. I had an incredible dialog – It was a troublesome dialog. 18 months later, there wasn’t one soldier that was ever shot at, and even Biden admitted it in a second of stupidity.”
Trump floats concept of changing federal revenue tax with tariffs
Trump spoke of efforts to have automobiles made in the USA, particularly to revitalize the as soon as booming business in Detroit, Michigan. Lately, Trump threatened a big auto plant “being constructed by China in Mexico” that he would implement 100 or 200% tariffs on each automotive made there if he wins, so “they’re going to be unsaleable in the USA.” In response, the plant reportedly introduced it will cease manufacturing.
“This was the most important plant on the earth. It could have greater than all of Michigan makes. That is how huge,” Trump mentioned. “You already know, that is what we’re attending to. And I mentioned, if that plant goes up, I would like them to know if I win, I’ll tax these automobiles on the charge of 100 or 200% apiece so that you simply will not have the ability to promote them in the USA. They only introduced they are not going to construct the plant.”
“I did an enormous favor for our nation by doing that. And I am not even there but. To me, probably the most lovely phrase, I’ve mentioned this for the final couple of weeks within the dictionary at this time is the phrase tariff,” Trump continued. “It is extra lovely than love, extra lovely than something. It is probably the most lovely phrase. This nation can develop into wealthy with the use, the correct use of tariffs.”
“Did you simply float out the concept of eliminating revenue taxes and changing it with tariffs?” Rogan interjected. “Have been you severe about that?”
“Yeah, certain. Why not?” Trump mentioned. “Our nation was the richest, comparatively within the Eighties and Nineties. A president who was assassinated, named McKinley, he was the tariff king.”
“He spoke superbly of tariffs. His language was actually lovely. ‘We won’t permit the enemy to come back in and take our jobs and take our factories and take our employees and take our households except they pay an enormous value. And the large value is tariffs.’ And he’d communicate like that. However he was proper,” Trump mentioned. “After which round within the early 1900s, they converted stupidly to, frankly, an revenue tax.”
Trump discusses the opportunity of life on Mars
Trump mentioned he has interviewed jet pilots who described seeing what seemed like a ball that traveled 4 occasions quicker than an F-22 aircraft, opening the dialog as much as the topic of UFOs.
“It is not an incredible curiosity for me, however it’s slightly curiosity. I get that query as a lot as nearly any query. Do you suppose that we’ve got aliens coming, you recognize, flying round or no matter?” Trump mentioned. “I imply, there is no cause to not suppose that Mars and all these planets do not have life, you recognize?”
Trump responds to Kamala Harris evaluating him to Hitler: ‘Very low IQ particular person’
Trump described Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Karris as a “very low IQ particular person,” when Rogan requested him about how Harris in contrast her Republican opponent to Adolf Hitler.
“There’s the rhetoric can also be that you simply’re Hitler and that with a view to cease Hitler, you need to do no matter,” Rogan mentioned. “I imply, you are listening to this now, Kamala in contrast you, mentioned you’re keen on Hitler yesterday.”
“Kamala is a really low IQ particular person. She’s a really low IQ. You already know, I am for taking checks too. I believe anyone that runs for president ought to take, they need to give them a take a look at,” Trump mentioned.
“And it isn’t an age factor,” Trump mentioned. “If you happen to look again on historical past, 70s and 80s, your best, a few of your best leaders on the earth, world historical past, very long time world historical past, they had been of their 70s, of their 80s. However I believe it is best to take cognitive checks. I believe everyone – they are saying it is unconstitutional, however I believe that is ridiculous. I believe Kamala ought to have a take a look at as a result of there’s one thing lacking. There’s one thing incorrect together with her.”
“Nicely, I believe it is stress,” Rogan mentioned. “I believe the stress and the scrutiny. You have been a celeb for a very long time, and also you perceive what that is like. However for somebody who’s in her late 40s, who turns into the vice chairman, who runs for president, turns into a vice chairman, after which impulsively, the load of the world is in your shoulders. And there is all these folks, lots of people clam up.”
“However you both have it or you do not,” Trump mentioned. Rogan agreed, “Right.”
From the official vice presidential residence on the White Home on Wednesday, Harris accepted the declare of former Trump White Home Chief of Workers John Kelly, who mentioned Trump needed “Hitler’s generals.” Harris mentioned her GOP opponent is “unhinged” and seeks “unchecked energy.”
Rogan reveals why he determined to have Trump on his podcast
Rogan acknowledged how the Republican presidential nominee appeared on his buddy and fellow comic Theo Von’s “This Previous Weekend” podcast in August.
“Is that why you referred to as me to do that?” Trump requested.
“No, no,” Rogan mentioned. “As soon as they shot you, I used to be like, he is received to come back in right here. It is all about timing. I believe our timing is ideal… Do you actually have a scar in your ear? You bought something on there?”
“I do,” Trump mentioned, “so proper over right here.”
“Oh, it is a tiny mark,” Rogan mentioned.
“It zinged proper there,” Trump mentioned, motioning to the aspect of his ear.
“It healed up fairly f—ing good,” Rogan provided.
“Yeah, it is fairly good. Yeah, it is slightly… It is not like a number of the wrestlers, a number of the UFC fighters,” Trump mentioned. “It was kind of like a prime shot.. however it makes me a more durable man.”
