After their three-hour interview aired on Friday, October 25, Joe Rogan criticized Donald Trump for his tendency to obfuscate.
During the most recent episode of his podcast, "He’s real good at – you ask him a question, and he starts to answer it, but then he takes you on a totally different route… But you got to bring him back in, but you got to be respectful," Rogan informed Eddie Bravo, Brendan Schaub, and Bryan Callen, "The Joe Rogan Experience."
"He's got this ability to just keep going. This is what's crazy, like the podcast was three hours long. The guy didn't pee before the podcast. He didn't pee after the podcast. He just left," Rogan augmented.
Rogan's companions also inquired whether he was "nervous" about meeting with the former president.
"I was definitely hyped up. I was excited because I wanted – there were a lot of questions I needed to answer," he said.
Rogan also noted Trump's humor during the interview.
"The problem with the Trump stuff is just that the people look at the inflammatory things he says, the crazy s---, and they define him by that," Rogan stated.
"You also have to remember, this is a very bizarre combination of an entertainer and a businessman… He’s like a comedian, man. He says funny s---," he concluded. "My point is people don’t know what to do with that, and they want to pretend that all these other people are somehow morally better because you don’t see the real them."
Rogan also stated that this was the first time the two had engaged in a genuine discourse.
"He likes making deals. That’s what it is. That’s his whole thing," he disclosed.
Trump, who is 78 years old, could not respond to specific inquiries during the podcast, as OK! Magazine previously reported.
When the 57-year-old media personality inquired about the experience of becoming president in 2017, Trump responded, "Well, first of all, it was very surreal. It was very interesting."
"When I got shot, it wasn't surreal. That should have been surreal. When I was lying on the ground, I knew exactly what was going on. I knew exactly where I was hit. They said, 'You were hit all over the place because there was so much blood from the ear.'" The businessman then recounted his near-death experience in July.
Meanwhile, during his response to comparisons of his rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden to a pro-Nazi gathering that took place at the same arena in 1939, Donald Trump stated on Monday that he is "the opposite of a Nazi."
The former president also attempted to convert criticism of his rally into a flashpoint for all Trump supporters by making a bogus allegation that Vice President Kamala Harris was calling those who voted for him Nazis. This was done without any evidence to substantiate the assertion.
The sentence that Trump told his fans at an event in Georgia was, "The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that anyone who isn't voting for her is a Nazi." This is a remark that his Democratic opponent has not said.
After The Atlantic published an article stating that President Trump had professed appreciation for the loyalty of Adolf Hitler's Nazi generals while he was in the White House, Harris pounced on the story the following week. That report was supported by retired Marine General John Kelly, who served as Trump's chief of staff from 2017 to 2019. Kelly shared his opinion with The New York Times in a separate interview, stating that Trump embodied the characteristics of a fascist.
During a CNN town hall, Harris responded to those reports by stating that she believes Trump to be a fascist and that "the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted." Her campaign has also utilized the piece from The Atlantic and Kelly's comments in recent days' advertisements.
During his remarks on Monday night in Georgia, Trump appeared to be responding to those comments when he stated that his father had strongly advised him to avoid referring to anyone as Nazis or Hitler.
Business Times has reached out to Donald Trump for comments.
