Election 2024 live: Trump attacks ‘stupid women’ critics in outburst during 3-hour Joe Rogan interview
Former President Donald Trump tells Joe Rogan his biggest mistake during first term was hiring 'bad people, or disloyal people'
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Former President Donald Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan that his biggest mistake during his first term in the White House was hiring “disloyal people.”
Rogan asked Trump if he had made “bad choices” when putting in place various officials.
“The biggest mistake I made,” Trump said, was that “I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked.”
Trump also hit out at “stupid women” as he accused political commentators of distorting his comments in the run-up to the election.
In a three-hour interview, he appeared to single out MSNBC’s Joy Reid and others.
“Some of these women, they’re so stupid,” he said.
It came as Harris appeared alongside pop superstar Beyonce and country music veteran Willie Nelson in Houston, Texas, for a rally focused on reproductive rights.
“I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother, a mother who cares deeply about the world my children, and all of our children are living in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies,” Beyonce said.
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The former president’s interview with Rogan created another opportunity for the Republican nominee to highlight the hypermasculine tone that has defined much of his 2024 White House bid.
Trump has made masculinity a central theme of his campaign, appearing on podcasts targeting young male voters and tapping surrogates who sometimes use crude language.
Rogan pressed Trump on whether he’s “completely committed” to bringing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into his administration.“Oh, I completely am,” Trump responded, but added he and Kennedy disagree on environmental policies. He said he’ll tell Kennedy to “focus on health, do whatever you want.”
Kennedy has been instrumental in spreading skepticism about vaccines, rejecting the overwhelming consensus among scientists that the benefits of inoculation outweigh the rare risk of side effects.
Trump again seemed to entertain the idea of eliminating federal income taxes, telling Rogan, “Yeah, sure why not?” when asked by the podcast host if he was serious about it.
He also repeated at length his grievances about the 2020 election but said, “If I win, this will be my last election.”
Trump describes lying on the floor covered in blood on Rogan podcast
Trump said it was “more surreal” to be standing inside the White House after first being elected than his assassination attempt in July.
“That should have been surreal,” he said of the failed assassination.
“When I was laying on the ground, I knew exactly what was going on, I knew exactly where I’d been hit.
“They were saying you were hit all over the place, because there was so much blood from the ear.”
He tells Joe Rogan “You would know that better than anyone right? When your ear gets torn up?”
Rogan agrees: “Yeh ears bleed a lot.”
Trump continues: “When that happened I really knew where I was. I knew exactly what happened I said I wasn’t hit anywhere else. But with the presidency - it was a very surreal experience.”
Woodward and Bernstein speak out on Washington Post decision not to endorse either candidate
Veteran journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal, have condemned their former publication The Washington Post, following the news that the title would not be endorsing a candidate in the 2024 election.
"We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page, but this decision 11 days out from the 2024 presidential election ignores the Washington Post's own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy,” the pair said in a newly released joint statement.
“Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy and that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process."
Trump accuses Harris of being ‘out partying’ after leaving supporters waiting three hours to do Rogan podcast
Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of being “out partying” with Beyonce while war was going on in the Middle East, after being three hours late to a rally in Michigan because of a podcast recording.
The former president was due to address crowds in Traverse City at 7.30pm local time but did not take to the stage until around 10.30pm.
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Trump says Harris is ‘out partying’ after leaving supporters waiting three hours
The former president was due to address crowds in Traverse City at 7.30pm local time, but did not take to the stage until around 10.30pm
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The Freedom singer was joined by her former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland as she entered the Shell Energy Stadium on Friday, to screams and cheers from supporters.
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“Should we listen to a nice song while we wait? Okay, Ave Maria by Pavarotti,” he said “I want The doctors to take their time.”
The former president stood onstage swaying to the music, before beginning again.
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