Former President Donald Trump called being president a “very dangerous business,” citing his two close calls with potential assassins in a highly anticipated Joe Rogan interview released Friday night.
during his Nearly three-hour appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” — which garnered more than 350,000 views within 30 minutes of going live — Trump repeatedly referred to the role of the presidency as a dangerous position, suggesting that pundits and officials were concerned about attempts on his life. Don’t want to talk.
“I do things that don’t necessarily make me that popular. I just do what’s right,” the 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate said.
“I understand what I am doing. You make yourself a target, and it’s a very dangerous business. I never thought about it when I did it.”
Trump’s stump speech in Butler, PA on July 13 turned into a massacre that shocked the world.
Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, Firing was fired at a rooftop 130 yards away from where the former President was giving a speech.Before being killed by a Secret Service sniper, piercing his ear and causing chaos.
A 50-year-old retired fire chief who was sitting in the audience was killed and two others were seriously injured in the attack.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigned after 10 days after facing bipartisan outrage On agency failures.
Exactly two months later, future killer ryan wesley rothThe 58-year-old was arrested on September 15 after getting within a few hundred yards of Trump while playing golf at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Rogan, 57, suggested the assassination attempts would not have happened if the media – and the Democrats – had been Like his rival Vice President Kamala Harris And Twice unsuccessful presidential candidate Hillary Clinton – Not to confuse Trump with Adolf Hitler.
“They like to take things out of context and distort them,” Rogan said.
Trump recorded the discussion at the comedian’s studio in Austin, Texas, hours before it went live on “The Joe Rogan Experience” YouTube channel.
The interview – which is approximately two hours and 58 minutes long – received more than 800,000 views just an hour after it was published.
Trump began the conversation by discussing his “two different lives” — referring to his time as a businessman and host of “The Apprentice” reality TV show before entering politics in 2015.
“I had a great life but I wanted to do this,” the GOP nominee said. He explained how producers wanted to extend his contract on the “hot show” to remain on primetime TV.
“Somehow they put me on the ballot and I surprised everyone.”
Bloomberg News reported this year that “The Joe Rogan Experience” has an estimated 14.5 million followers on Spotify.
His audience is believed to be mostly male.
Trump appeared on several podcasts in the domestic leg of the campaign and in August co-hosted a streaming conversation with X boss Elon Musk, which the billionaire leader of Tesla and SpaceX said reached 1 billion viewers.
Most swing-state polling has a close race between the former president and Harris.
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