Seven takeaways from Trump's interview with Joe Rogan

Republican statesmanlike nominee Donald Trump‘s three-hour interrogation with America’s fig 1 podcaster, Joe Rogan, has been released.

In the wide-ranging sit-down, the erstwhile president discusses everything from the “biggest mistake” of his White House tenure, what helium told North Korea’s person and whether extraterrestrial beingness exists.

Two years agone Rogan described Trump arsenic “an existential menace to democracy” and refused to person him connected his show. But the brace seemed affable connected Friday arsenic they chatted astir their shared involvement successful Ultimate Fighting Championship and communal friends similar Elon Musk.

The Republican’s run hopes the interrogation volition consolidate his power with antheral voters, who marque up the halfway of listeners to the Joe Rogan Experience, which has 14.5 cardinal Spotify followers and 17.5 cardinal YouTube subscribers.

Trump took a large detour to sojourn Rogan successful Austin, Texas, causing him to amusement up astir 3 hours precocious to a rally successful Traverse City, Michigan, a important plaything authorities wherever some helium and his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, person been campaigning hard.

Trump told Rogan the “biggest mistake” of his 2017-21 presidency was “I picked a fewer radical I shouldn’t person picked”.

“Neocons oregon atrocious radical oregon disloyal people,” helium told Rogan, referring to neoconservatives, policy-makers who champion an interventionist US overseas policy.

“A feline similar Kelly, who was a bully but a anemic person,” Trump added, mentioning his erstwhile White House chief-of-staff John Kelly, who told the New York Times this week that helium thought his erstwhile brag had “fascist” tendencies.

Trump besides described his erstwhile US National Security Adviser John Bolton arsenic “an idiot”, but utile astatine times.

“He was bully successful a definite way,” said Trump. “He’s a nutjob.

"And everytime I had to woody with a state erstwhile they saw this whack occupation lasting down maine they said: ‘Oh man, Trump’s going to spell to warfare with us.’ He was with Bush erstwhile they went stupidly into the Middle East.”

Trump said helium got to cognize North Korean person Kim Jong-un “very well” contempt immoderate atomic sabre-rattling betwixt the 2 initially erstwhile Trump said helium told him: “Little Rocket Man, you’re going to pain successful hell.”

“By the clip I finished we had nary occupation with North Korea,” Trump said.

Trump said helium urged Kim to halt gathering up his “substantial” weapons stockpile.

“I said: ‘Do you ever bash thing else? Why don’t you spell instrumentality it easy? Go to the beach, relax.

“I said: ‘You’re ever gathering nuclear, you don’t person to bash it. Relax!’ I said: ‘Let’s physique immoderate condos connected your shore.’”

Trump besides argued that Russia would ne'er person invaded Ukraine if helium had been president.

“I said, ‘Vladimir, you're not going in,’” helium told Rogan, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I utilized to speech to him each the time.

“I can't archer you what I told him, due to the fact that I deliberation it would beryllium inappropriate, but someday he'll archer you, but helium would person ne'er gone in.”

Trump said Putin invaded Ukraine due to the fact that “number one, helium doesn’t respect Biden astatine all”. The White House has antecedently accused Trump of cozying up to overseas autocrats.

Asked for impervious to backmost up his mendacious claims that the 2020 statesmanlike was stolen from him by wide elector fraud, Trump told Rogan: “We’ll bash it different time.

“I would bring successful papers that you would not believe, truthful galore antithetic papers. That predetermination was truthful crooked, it was the astir crooked.”

Rogan pressed him for evidence.

Trump alleged irregularities with the ballots successful Wisconsin and that Democrats “used Covid to cheat”.

“Are you going to contiguous this [proof] ever?” asked Rogan.

“Uh…,” said Trump earlier pivoting to speech astir however 51 erstwhile quality agents aligned with Joe Biden had falsely suggested that stories astir his lad Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation.

“I mislaid by, like, I didn’t lose,” said Trump, rapidly correcting himself.

Trump lashed retired astatine his governmental opponents and praised his allies, galore of whom are apt to entreaty to Rogan’s fanbase.

He called his rival, Vice-President Kamala Harris, a “very debased IQ person” and described California's Gavin Newsom arsenic “one of the worst governors successful the world”.

Trump said that Elon Musk, who has appeared connected Rogan’s podcast successful the past, was “the top guy”.

He besides said helium is "completely" committed to bringing Robert F Kennedy Jr into a imaginable caller Trump administration.

The erstwhile autarkic statesmanlike candidate, who has a adjacent relationship with Rogan, dropped retired successful August and endorsed the Republican nominee.

Trump said helium disagrees with Kennedy connected biology argumentation truthful would alternatively inquire the vaccine professional to "focus connected health, bash immoderate you want".

Trump said that helium hadn’t ruled retired determination being beingness successful space.

“There’s nary crushed not to deliberation that Mars and each these planets don’t person life,” helium said, referring to discussions he’d had with pitchy pilots who'd seen “very strange” things successful the sky.

“Well, Mars - we’ve had probes there, and rovers, and I don’t deliberation there’s immoderate beingness there,” Rogan said.

“Maybe it’s beingness that we don’t cognize about,” said Trump.

Trump said that immoderate elder figures astatine NBC had tried to speech him retired of moving for president to support his amusement The Apprentice connected air.

”They wanted maine to stay,” helium said. “All the apical radical came implicit to spot me, effort and speech maine retired of it, due to the fact that they wanted to person maine extend.”

Trump featured successful 14 bid of The Apprentice from 2004, but NBC chopped ties with him aft helium launched his 2015 bid for the presidency, citing his “derogatory” comments astir immigrants.

Trump has been nether unit from Democrats to merchandise his aesculapian records aft Harris released hers earlier this month, which concluded she was successful "excellent health" and acceptable for the presidency.

Trump’s squad said astatine the clip that his doc described him arsenic being successful "perfect and fantabulous health”, without sharing his records.

Trump didn’t code the taxable straight connected Friday’s podcast.

But helium told Rogan that during 1 physical, for which helium didn’t springiness a date, doctors had described his quality to tally connected a steep treadmill arsenic “unbelievable”.

"I was ne'er 1 that could, like, tally connected a treadmill. When passing a physical, they asked maine to tally connected a treadmill and past they marque it steeper and steeper and steeper and the doctors said, it was astatine Walter Reed [hospital], they said: 'It’s unbelievable!' I’m telling you, I felt I could person gone each day.”

But helium said treadmills are “really boring” truthful helium prefers to enactment steadfast by playing golf.