Joe Rogan launches Trump interview podcast

Former President Donald Trump called being president a “very dangerous business,” citing his two close encounters with would-be assassins in a highly anticipated interview with Joe Rogan that was released Friday night.

During his nearly three-hour appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” – which generated more than 350,000 views within 30 minutes of its launch – Trump repeatedly referred to the role of the presidency as a dangerous position, suggesting that experts and officials do not want to talk about the attempts on his life.

“I do things that don’t necessarily make me that popular. “I’m just doing the right thing,” the 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate said.

“I understand what I’m doing. You become a target and it is a very dangerous business. “I never thought about that when I did it.”

Trump’s speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 turned into a bloodbath that stunned the world.

Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, He opened fire on a rooftop 130 meters from where the former president was speakingcutting off his ear and causing chaos before a Secret Service sniper killed him.

The attack left a 50-year-old retired fire chief who was in the audience dead and two other people seriously injured.

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned 10 days later after facing bipartisan outrage about the agency’s failures.

Just two months later, would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh58, was arrested after coming within a few hundred yards of Trump while he was playing golf at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15.

Rogan, 57, suggested that the assassination attempts would not have happened if the media (and Democrats) like his rival Vice President Kamala Harris and Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton – did not conflate Trump with Adolf Hitler.

“They love to take things out of context and distort them,” Rogan said.

Trump recorded the discussion at the comedian’s studios in Austin, Texas, just hours before it aired live on “The Joe Rogan Experience” YouTube channel.

The interview, which lasts approximately two hours and 58 minutes, reached just over 800,000 views within an hour of its publication.

Trump began the talk by talking about his “two different lives,” referring to his time as a businessman and host of the reality show “The Apprentice” before his subsequent foray into politics in 2015.

“I had a wonderful life, but I wanted to do this,” the Republican candidate said, explaining how producers wanted to extend his contract on the “hot show” to remain on primetime television.

“Somehow they put me in a survey and I surprised everyone.”

“The Joe Rogan Experience” has approximately 14.5 million followers on Spotify, Bloomberg News reported this year.

Its audience is believed to be overwhelmingly male.

Trump has appeared on many podcasts in the final stretch of the campaign and co-hosted a streaming conversation with X owner Elon Musk in August that the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX leader said reached one billion viewers.

The former president and Harris are very even in most swing state polls.