Former President Donald Trump recorded a nearly three hour podcast with host Joe Rogan this week.
“The one question that you’ll ask me that I think you’ll ask me that people seem to ask – and I always come up with the same answer – if I, the one mistake because I had a lot of success, great economy, great everyth, everything was great with the military rebuilt the biggest tax cuts in history, all the stuff we did, we had a great presidency,” Trump said.
“Three Supreme Court justices. Most people get none. You know, you pick them young this way. They’re there for 50 years. Right. So, you know, even if a president is there for eight years, oftentimes they never have a chance. I had three. It was the luck of the draw.”
“But I will say that it always comes back to the same answer,” Trump said. “The biggest mistake I made was I picked some people, I picked some great people, you know, but you don’t think about that. I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked. I picked a few people that I shouldn’t have picked.”
Rogan added that the “rebels” now want to be Republican, insinuating that people who wouldn’t have voted for him before may now.
“The rebels are Republicans now, though, like you want to be invisible, you want to be punk rock, you want to like, buck the system? You’re a conservative now,” Rogan said. “That’s how crazy. And then the liberals are now pro-silencing criticism. They’re pro-censorship online. … [T]hey come in regulating free speech and now regulating the First Amendment. It’s bananas to watch.”
Earlier this month, MSNBC analyst Mara Gay recently claimed that supporters of former President Donald Trump and listeners of Joe Rogan are in “crisis” and need “therapy.”
During a segment on Morning Joe, Gay joined a panel discussing a Washington Postreport about whether Trump’s “male-dominated culture” is losing women voters.
Gay, who is also on The New York Timeseditorial board, accused Trump of pushing a “faux masculinity” and suggested that Rogan’s listeners are being “recruited to fascism,” though she didn’t elaborate on specific fascist ideas.
Gay commented, “I think men are in crisis, actually, in this country. Not all men are just at home listening to Joe Rogan being angry or being recruited to fascism. Some just need therapy.”
She also expressed hope that women, who make up more than half the population, would “coalesce around the obvious choice” in opposition to Trump.
