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.
VOICES: Kamala’s campaign is in trouble – they still don’t know how to tackle Trump
Donald Trump was at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania this last weekend, and he was in full flow. He went on a ramble about the town’s most famous son, the former golfer Arnold Palmer. The anecdote went on for a full 12 minutes. And let’s face it, with Palmer there is a lot to talk about. He took the coveted green jacket at the Masters on four occasions and won every other major, including the Open twice.
He was credited with taking a lot of the snobbishness out of golf and making it a game for the everyman. But this was not the subject of Donald Trump’s lengthy discourse on Palmer. No, it was the size of his penis. A dead golfer’s manhood had somewhat surprisingly come up (fnarr fnarr) in a way no one could have anticipated.
“This is a guy that was all man,” the former president said. “This man was strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable’.”
Kamala is in trouble – Trump’s opponents don’t know how to fight him
The post-Biden buzz has faded for the Democrats and Kamala Harris is having to dip back into the ‘end of democracy’ tactic, leaving the Republican candidate free to... flatter a golfing legend. However, as Jon Sopel demonstrates, the race is nowhere near finished
Stephen Miller indicates what US would look like under Donald Trump
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s hard-right immigration advisor, said ahead of the former president’s speech in Novi, Michigan on Saturday, “I want you to picture what the world will look like January 20, next year ... The crooked politicians are out of power, and the American people are back in power.”
“The big donors, the special interests, everybody who's been ripping you off loses their control, and you're in charge again,” he added. “The border is sealed shut. The illegal aliens are sent home. Our factories are brought back to our shores. Criminals are put behind bars, and our children are taught to love American history and American values. Once again, we will be a proud nation under Donald Trump.”
Here’s the speaker list for Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally
The Trump campaign has sent out the speaker list for the former president’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden:
- Sen. JD Vance
- Speaker Mike Johnson
- Rep. Elise Stefanik
- Rep. Byron Donalds
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Rudy Giuliani
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Lara Trump
- Eric Trump
- Donald Trump Jr.
- Elon Musk
- Dan Scavino
- Stephen Miller
- Dana White
- Tucker Carlson
- Brooke Rollins
- Steve Witkoff
- Howard Lutnick
- Grant Cardone
- Sergio Gor
- Michael Harris Jr.
- Tiffany Justice
- Lee Greenwood
- Christopher Macchio
- Mary Millben
- Sid Rosenberg
- Kill Tony
- Scott Lobaido
- David Rem
Live: Trump rallies supporters in Michigan amid key swing state push
Shirley MacLaine opens up about uncomfortable 1980s encounter with Donald Trump
Shirley MacLaine has recalled an uneasy encounter with Donald Trump in the 1980s.
In an excerpt from her new book, The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime, the 90-year-old Oscar winner shared that she’s met 13 US presidents, including the 45th and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. In the book, she recalled meeting the former president “at some function” in the 1980s, noting that the whole encounter made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
MacLaine told People that she and Trump first crossed paths while she was checking out a space in Manhattan’s 666 Fifth Avenue building, a property Trump owned at the time. Back then, Trump was a real-estate mogul quickly gaining notoriety after appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show and David Letterman.
Shirley MacLaine opens up about uncomfortable ‘80s encounter with Donald Trump
‘In his head, I could see he was undressing himself and me, and I got out of there very fast,’ the Oscar winner recalls
Nostradamus pollster reveals latest 2024 prediction – and how he’s never had ‘so much hate’ in an election
Historian Allan Lichtman has insisted that he stands by his prediction about who will win the 2024 presidential race despite recent polls – and revealed that he has “never experienced” so much “hate” in an election cycle.
Lichtman is known as the “Nostradamus” of polling due to the fact he has correctly predicted the results of nine out of 10 presidential elections since 1984.
His method for forecasting the race so accurately is known as “The Keys to the White House,” a system he devised with the Russian academic Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981.
And despite the polls, which show the race is now tighter than ever between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Lichtman stands by his prediction that the Democrat will win the White House in November.
Nostradamus pollster Allan Lichtman reveals latest prediction in 2024 race
Despite the polls, Allan Lichtman stands by his prediction from September that Harris will beat Trump
Trump suggests getting rid of federal income tax during Joe Rogan appearance
During his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Trump suggested fully getting rid of federal income taxes and replacing it with tariffs.
The former president suggested a return to economic policies that were in place before the early 1900s.
“Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tariffs?” Rogan asked Trump after the former president suggested doing so on Monday on Fox News.
“Were we serious about that?” Rogan asked.
“Yeah, sure ... But why not?” Trump responded.
He praised the tariff policies of the 25th President William McKinley.
Without incorporating his suggestion to remove the federal income tax, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that Trump’s economic plans could add $15tn to the debt over the course of a decade.
Rogan says he changed his mind about having Trump on podcast after assassination attempt
Two years ago, Joe Rogan said he wouldn’t have Trump on his show, saying the former president was “an existential threat to democracy.”
Rogan said he changed his mind after Trump was shot during the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on July 13.
“Once they shot you, I was like, ‘He’s got to come in here,’” Rogan told Trump. “It’s all about timing.”
Joe Rogan corrects Donald Trump over ‘life on Mars’ claim
Joe Rogan pushed Donald Trump for government secrets on whether there is life beyond Earth, in a wide-ranging interview on his hit podcast.
The former president initially said he had “never been a believer” in extraterrestrial life before saying he had interviewed “solid” jet pilots who claimed to have seen “very strange” things in the sky.
“There’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life,” Trump said.
But Rogan quickly moved to correct him.
“Well, Mars — we’ve had probes there, and rovers, and I don’t think there’s any life there”.
“Maybe it’s life that we don’t know about,” Trump interjected.
To date, no conclusive evidence of past or present life has been found on Mars despite decades of uncrewed missions to the red planet.
Evidence suggests that during the ancient Noachian time period, the surface environment of Mars had liquid water and may have been habitable for microorganisms, but habitable conditions do not necessarily indicate life.
Trump says biggest mistake during first term was hiring ‘disloyal people'
Donald Trump said during his appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast on Friday that his biggest mistake during his first term in the White House was hiring “bad people, or disloyal people.”
The former president has often complained about the establishment Republicans staffing his first administration who often worked to thwart his agenda. His longest-serving Chief of Staff John Kelly, recently called Trump a “fascist.”
Rogan asked Trump if he had made “bad choices” when putting in place various officials.
“The biggest mistake I made,” he said, was that “I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked.”
When Rogan asked if Trump was speaking about “neocons,” Trump said: “Yeah, neocons, or bad people, or disloyal people.”
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