What Donald Trump told Joe Rogan on his podcast
Donald Trump admitted his biggest mistake while president, revealed the most beautiful word he knows, and if he believes in alien life in his interview with Joe Rogan. See the video.
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Donald Trump admitted his biggest mistake was hiring “bad people, or disloyal people” while in the White House in his highly anticipated interview with Joe Rogan.
Trump singled out his former White House chief of staff John Kelly and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
He called Kelly a “bully” and Bolton “an idiot”, who ended up being “great”.
“He was good in a certain way, he was a nut job,” Trump said. “Any time I had to deal with a country, when they saw this whack job standing behind me they said, ‘Oh man, Trump’s going to go to war with us.’”
“The biggest mistake I made ... I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked,” he said.
Rogan asked if Trump was referring to “neocons,” and he replied, “Yeah, neocons, or bad people, or disloyal people.”
He also called the word tariff “the most beautiful word” in the dictionary.
“It’s more beautiful than love. It’s more beautiful than anything,” he said. “This country can become rich with the use — the proper use — of tariffs.”
Rogan asked Trump if he would consider replacing income taxes with tariffs. Trump said, “Yeah, sure. Why not?”
Trump, who kept voters at his rally waiting for three hours while he was recording the podcast episode with Rogan, talked about a range of issues.
Trump praised China’s leader Xi Jinping, as a “brilliant guy”.
“He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist,” he said. “I mean, he’s a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not.”
Trump spoke about his view on aliens. “I interviewed jet pilots that say they saw something. … There’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life,” he said.
He said he gets asked about what the US government knows about “the people coming from space,” and that, as president, he was told “a lot.”
Trmup also went back to his theory on the war in Ukraine and how it would never have happened if he were president.
He also complained about the lack of fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris enough during their presidential debate.
He also went back to discuss how he thought the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Rogan asked Trump to explain how the 2020 election was stolen, and he cited election law changes that he said did not get proper legislative approval.
“They were supposed to get legislative approval to do the things they did, and they didn’t get it,” Trump said.
Trump, who will not be able to run for a third term if he wins, said it would be his last election “if I win.”
He was noncommittal on whether he would run again if he loses.
“If I win, that’ll be, this will be my last election,” he said. “But I think I owe it to the country. We have to have fair elections.”
Rogan later suggested the presidential nominees should sit down and have a conversation.
“I think you and Kamala, you sit across a table with no one in the room but the two of you, of course, you’re not going to shout at each other, hopefully, that is the way you do it,” he said.
Originally published as What Donald Trump told Joe Rogan on his podcast
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