Joe Rogan said Donald Trump tried to come on his podcast multiple times but wouldn’t have him because, “I don’t want to help him.”
Joe Rogan recently went on the Lex Fridman podcast where he talked about his past experience of former U.S. President Donald Trump approaching him to be on his podcast.
The giga-brained Rogan, who touts the ideologies of the enlightened centrist, went on at length about the division in the United States and how the pandemic poured, “gasoline on this already burning fire of conflict between the various factions of thought in this country.” Although, he left out exactly what factors surrounding the pandemic acted as that gasoline. With Rogan’s track record, the unspoken variables he alluded to probably weren’t the most accurate.
He added, “It’s already a weird time, post-Trump. The Trump era is also going to be one of the weirder times when people look back historically about the division in this country. He’s such a polarizing figure, that so many people felt like they could abandon their own ethics and morals and principles just to attack him and anybody who supports him because he is an existential threat to democracy itself.”
Rogan went on to say, “I think it’s gonna get weirder. He’s going to run again.”
Rogan also added that Trump is likely to win. “Well, he’s running against a dead man, you know? I mean, (Joe) Biden, shakes hands with people that aren’t even there when he gets off stage. I think he’s seeing ghosts… If he was anyone else, if he was a Republican, if that was Donald Trump doing that, every fucking talk show would be screaming for him to be off the air,” he said.
This claim from Rogan is a bit unfounded, as Trump has multiple incidents of his age showing. While he has shown to be a more effective public speaker than Biden, he is no spring chicken at 76, only three years younger than Biden.
“By the way, I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form. I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once — I’ve said no, every time. I don’t want to help him,” Rogan continued. “I’m not interested in helping him.”
“I think you’ll have him on,” Fridman responded. “I think ultimately, I mean, you had, you’ve had a lot of people that I think you might, you may otherwise be skeptical. ‘Would I have a good conversation?’ Which I think is your metric, you don’t care about politics… And I think you had like Kanye (West) on, for example and you had a great conversation with them.”
“Yeah, but Kanye’s an artist,” Rogan replied. “Kanye doing well, or not doing well, doesn’t change the course of our country.”
