The choice for today’s post was obvious, the interview we’ve all been waiting at least eight years for:
It’s a long interview and I haven’t remotely listened to all of it yet. But unlike Kamala Harris, Trump actually answers questions and seems comfortable in his own skin. In fact, Trump frequently does the thing were he talks discursively for long stretches, tying question back to himself (in answer one about his inauguration day drive to the White House, he talks about a building he converted along the route), and Rogan, who gives his guests a lot of room to talk, has to reel him back on topic.
Maybe I’ll do another post on takeaways from the interview when I have time to more of it.
Tags: 2016 Presidential Race, 2024 Presidential Race, Donald Trump, Elections, interview, Joe Rogan, Republicans, video
Sort of surprised no comments on this. I watched it all and commented elsewhere, but I guess I can here to.
I don’t like listening to politicians. They say never meet your heroes. I won’t say Republicans are my hero, but I did meet Sen. Phil Graham backstage at the 1992 RNC. I was being introduced to him, because I was being asked to type his speech into the teleprompter, as they needed someone to do so, and I was the fastest typist they could find. He shook my hand and thanked me, but never once looked at me while shaking my hand. They ended up finding someone else to help him, which is fine. Still, I saw the facade of care upfront and never forgot it.
I don’t have a problem with the facade on a personal level. I actually understand it. Still, I don’t enjoy listening to how much so and so cares about people, when they really just want to do what ever they want to do. That came to a head with W’s 2003 SOTU address. Oh, how he cared about the Iraqi people and wanted to help. I judge by actions rather than words, and I felt W didn’t stand by his words. That was the last political speech of any length I listened to in whole. That is until listening to Trump on Rogan.
It wasn’t really a speech, which made it easier. Also, Rogan pushed Trump to talk about his actions in office, which I appreciated (both Rogan’s questions and the actions Trump took). Trump’s “weaving” was annoying, but Rogan calling him out, and Trump openly admitting it made it tolerable. I didn’t really learn much from the conversation, but it was good to hear it all in a compact form of 3+ hours. I also agree with Rogan that it would be good to have a compendium of the issues with the 2020 elections. Overall, I’m glad I listened.
The one thing that I didn’t expect and stood out was the weakness and frailty of Trump I hadn’t seen before. It seemed more exhaustion than age, and I think it also came about with Trump relaxing a little, because he knew Rogan wasn’t going to be intentionally antagonistic with Trump. They had a conversation about mutually interesting subjects. It seems that Rogan now wants to do the same with Kamala. I wish him luck.
This was also the first time I listened to a full JRE podcast. He just doesn’t cover the things that interest me the way plenty of other podcasters do. However, he does tend to attract similar guests.
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