Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump

All right, we're rolling. Good to see you, sir.
Here we go. One of the things I wanted to talk to you about, I wanted to play
this,
but we decided we shouldn't play it because it could get copyright strike and
we don't want to
get the episode, we don't want anybody to have any sort of a way to get it down.
But it was the episode of you when you were on The View, and I think it was
2015 or 2016,
like when you were running for president. And you got introduced as our friend
Donald Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg gives you a big hug and a kiss. Joy Behar gives you a big hug.
Barbara Walters
gives you a big hug. They all loved you. They were all talking about how you
might be
conservative in your financial positions, but you're very liberal socially.
They were talking
about you in such a favorable light. The audience was cheering, and then you
actually started
winning in the polls, and then the machine started working towards you. But
there's probably no
one in history that I've ever seen that's been attacked the way you've been
attacked,
and the way they've done it so coordinated and systematically. When you see
those same people
in the past, very favorable to you, like Oprah, when you were on Oprah's show,
she was encouraging you to be president.
Last week, I did one of her last shows. I think maybe Thursday or Friday, that
was a big deal,
being on Oprah's show, the last one. And I was like one of the last shows in
that final
week. And I said, "Boy, we've come a long way since that."
What was it like?
Well, the concept, it was really like two different lives.
You know, I had a very wonderful life, but I wanted to do this.
The Apprentice was still going very strong. We had 12 seasons.
And we had actually 14 seasons, 12 years. They had a couple of them.
Well, they canceled The Apprentice when you were running for president, correct?
No, they had Arnold Schwarzenegger do it. I was involved in that. And I had
enough of it,
and we did great. It was doing great. But they wanted me to stay. They all came
to see me. They said,
"We're going to give you a contract." They wanted to extend my contract. Mark
Burnett is a great guy.
Then they wanted to extend the contract. Mark said, "You're crazy. Don't run.
Don't run."
Nobody gives up primetime, they said. You know, it's one of those little things,
which is probably true.
Nobody gives up primetime, though, for being president?
For running, well, for running against 20-some-odd people, you know. Turned out
to be 18.
18 professional people, you know, mostly politicians. They said, "Who would do
this?"
I mean, it's a long shot. Actually, the heads of NBC came over. Paul Talegny,
all the top people
came over to see me, try and talk me out of it, because they wanted to have me
extend. The Apprentice was
doing well. So it was 14 seasons. It was 12 years. We had won two seasons where
we had a double,
which rarely happens. It was just a hot show. And I said, "You know, I want to
do this." What happened is,
previously, like three years, four years before that, they did a poll. They had
Mitt Romney,
and somehow they put me in a poll, and I blew everybody away. I blew him away,
which isn't that
hard, frankly. But I blew everybody away, and I said, "That's interesting,"
because I never really
gave it that much real thought. I thought about it, but never real thought. But
I saw these polls were
very good. And so I was thinking about doing it then, but I had a contract with
The Apprentice. Plus,
I was building two big buildings at the time, and I wanted to make sure they
got finished up properly,
and it was one of those things. The kids were just sort of getting involved.
They're very capable
kids, but they were getting involved early on. So I did that. I got them done.
I had some very good
successes. And I came on, and then I thought about it for the next one after
the Romney disaster.
And I ran, and I won against Hillary. And it was quite an experience. But it
was a different life,
because you're right, The View. I was on The View many, many times. And they
loved me.
Just the way people would talk. I mean, even if people had criticisms about you,
people that didn't
like you, there was always feuds and stuff like that. But the reality was, the
thing turned on you
when they found out that you were going to be president. It was very
coordinated. And some people are
catching on to that now. There's a lot of people that were longtime Democrats,
like Elon and Bill
Ackman, and all these different, very intelligent people. And they support me
now. Bill Ackman supports
me. He's been very supportive, too. This is what I wanted to ask you. What was
it like when you
actually got in? Because nobody really can prepare you for that. When you're
running for president,
you don't really know what it's going to be like when you actually get into
office. What did you think
it was going to be like? So do you mean in office or when I decided to run? No,
when you got in.
Oh, when I was in. So when I was in and won and was in the White House,
essentially. Well, first of
all, it was very surreal. I would imagine. It's very interesting. When I got
shot, it wasn't surreal.
That should have been surreal. When I was laying on the ground, I knew exactly
what was going on.
I knew exactly where I was hit. They were saying you were hit all over the
place because there was
so much blood from the ear. You would know that better than anyone. When they
get the ear torn up.
Ears bleed a lot. Yeah. Anyway. And I was thinking the other day, when that
happened,
I really knew where I was. I knew exactly what happened. I said I wasn't hit
anywhere else.
With the presidency, it was a very surreal experience, okay? And what's day one
like?
Yeah. You get inaugurated. Holy shit, I'm the president. Yeah, that's what
happened. So I'm
driving down Pennsylvania Avenue. I just built a building on Pennsylvania. You
know, the hotel,
the old post office it was. We called it Trump National Hotel. And we sold it
to the Waldorf Astoria.
And it was a wonderful thing. But I'm driving down, I'm passing the hotel. You've
never seen so many
motorcycles, police, military. You know, it was a major thing. I got off really
the first time I
used Air Force One. Landed. And we're coming down and it was very beautiful. I
mean, it was incredible.
And we're going down Pennsylvania Avenue in the opposite direction. You know,
normally you're
used to going one way and all of a sudden you're going the other way. The
street was loaded up.
And I wanted to go out and I wanted to wave to everybody, but that wasn't smart.
You know,
the kid's a little bit dangerous, right? I mean, when you watch like Kennedy
and some others, right?
But I really felt, I don't know, the love was so crazy. And so
I did get out of the car for a brief, you know, just for a very short walk. I
thought it was very
important to do. And Melania got out with a beautiful dress on that became
sort of a staple. It was, uh, people loved it and barren. And we're walking
down the street,
but we're really got amazing. We get to the White House and now it's a little
bit,
a little bit before dark, beautiful. And we went up to the president's quarters.
They call them the
presidential quarters. And I'm standing in this beautiful hallway. I, you know,
it's funny. Nobody
ever talks about the White House as being beautiful inside. You know, you think
it's going to be,
everything's going to be all metal doors and stuff. It's not. It's so beautiful.
I made my money
largely on luxury. The hallway is like 25 feet wide. The ceiling heights are,
you know, every,
it's so beautiful. But I was standing there and I said to the guys, I want to
see the Lincoln bedroom.
I had never seen the Lincoln bedroom. I'd heard about the Lincoln bedroom.
And I was standing with my wife. I said, do you believe it? This is the Lincoln
bedroom? I mean,
it was like, it was, it was amazing because it's like, if you love the country,
but here you are,
the Lincoln bedroom and the bed, you know, he was very tall. He was six foot
six, which then would be
like, like Baron. Right. It would be like Baron Trump. He's six nine, but six
foot six. He was very
tall. Then on top of that, he wore that. There it is. He wore that. Yeah, there
it is. It's a long bed,
elongated bed. And because very, you know, people were shorter than you see.
Some of the chairs are
very, very low to the ground actually, but he had the long bed and they had, uh,
you had the Gettysburg
address right on that, right under that. You can't see it here, but right there,
the original version
of the Gettysburg address. And this is the original. And I'm looking and I just
looked around. I said,
do you believe this? Because I was never a, first of all, even if you were a
politician,
but I was never a politician. It just, I sort of just started, right? Right.
And all of a sudden,
I'm standing at the white house and it was a very, very surreal. That room was
so beautiful to me,
much more beautiful than it actually is. You know, to me, when I looked at the
bed
and the bed, you could see it was a little bit longer, had to be a little bit
longer.
He lost his son and they suffered. The two of them suffered from melancholia.
They didn't call it
depression. Uh, they called it melancholia and they suffered from it. He was a
very depressed guy
and she was a very depressed woman, more so than him. And on top of that, they
lost their son,
whose name was Tad, Tad. And, uh, it was, uh, just seeing it in the little
pictures,
a little tiny picture. I mean, you can't see the details there, a little tiny,
everything at the web was a little tiny picture of Tad who he lost and it was
devastating.
And he was, you know, he was, uh, uh, look, he was in a war. He was, he was,
and he was having a hard time because he couldn't beat Robert E. Lee. Robert E.
Lee won like 13
battles in a row and he was getting like a phobia, like a fighter, you know,
not about the fight stuff,
but like I went to a UFC fight and it was a champion who was 14 and one about a
year ago.
You would know the names 14 and one. And the only guy he lost to was this one
guy,
but the guy that he was fighting was like almost just an average fighter. He
lost numerous times,
but he beat this one guy. So I said, okay, I really don't know who you're
talking about.
I will figure it out. Okay. But about a year ago, but the point is that he lost,
he wasn't nearly the fighters, but the one who was not nearly the fighter had
beaten,
he's the only guy that beat the, the champ like five years before. And I said,
I'll take the guy that won the other fight. And that's what happened. He beat
him a second time.
Sometimes it was this crazy thing. Uh, Lincoln had a, uh, I don't know. I've
never read this.
I heard it from people in the white house who really understand what was going
on with,
with the whole life of the white house. But Lincoln had, uh, the yips about in
a way,
as the golfers would say, he had a phobia about Robert E. Lee said, I can't
beat Robert because
Robert E. Lee won many battles in a row. He was just beating the hell out of,
you know,
they tried to get Robert E. Lee to be on the North, but he said, no, I have to
be with my state,
you know, and the state was his whole thing. And, and he went to the South and
he was, uh,
I've had generals tell me we have some great generals, the real generals, not
the ones you
see on television, the ones that beat ISIS with me. We defeated ISIS in record
time. It was supposed
to take years and we did it in a matter of weeks. These are great generals.
These are tough guys.
These are not woke guys. But their favorite general in terms of genius was
Robert E. Lee.
In terms of strategy, you mean? Strategically. He took a war that should have
been over in a few days.
And it was, you know, years of hell, a vicious war. And, um, so here I am
standing there and again,
I had never really done this before. You know, I ran, I ran a number of months
before I won. I probably,
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