Donald Trump made an look on Lex Fridman’s podcast Tuesday as the previous president has slowly come to appreciate that internet-based media is significant to reaching individuals in 2024. And whereas it’s not the primary podcast Trump has ever finished, it is without doubt one of the bigger ones—proper up there with the tech-focused All-In podcast, which Trump appeared on back in June. Nicely, one of many bigger ones till Joe Rogan doubtlessly invitations Trump on, one thing he talked about with Fridman.
Fridamn requested Trump about psychedelic medication, the conflict in Ukraine, and any secret alien recordsdata that may be launched sometime. Trump additionally stated that he loves to jot down on Fact Social in any respect hours, however that he will get criticism when he posts after 3 a.m. ET. The previous president usually writes notably unhinged issues in the course of the evening on his social media platform.
“Trump was truth-ing at three o’clock within the morning,” Trump stated on the podcast, mimicking how he thinks reporters speak. “And there must be no downside with that. When they give thought to time zones, how do they find out about, like, you already know, in a time zone, like an Jap zone?”
Trump clearly received very confused and misspoke a variety of occasions, together with when he talked about showing on “The Reply” with Rosie O’Donnell when he meant the daytime speak present “The View.” The previous president additionally rambled about how Joe Biden “thinks he seems good in a showering go well with, which he doesn’t.”
One of many extra awkward moments throughout Trump’s comparatively brief 45-minute chat (most Fridman interviews are a number of hours), was when he was requested concerning the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and any recordsdata that Trump would possibly launch if he turns into president once more.
“Um, he was an excellent salesman. He was, you already know, a hale and hearty kind of man,” whereas suggesting he would possibly launch recordsdata on Epstein.
In actuality, Epstein was one in all Trump’s associates and there’s an extremely creepy video of the 2 dancing with their lecherous seems within the Nineteen Nineties. So Trump is clearly mendacity about releasing no matter recordsdata the U.S. authorities might have locked up concerning the man.
Fridman stored insisting he’s an unbiased however did the whole lot in his energy to normalize Trump as simply one other politician that common individuals might vote for with a clear conscience. Fridman known as Trump “an excellent dealmaker,” and at one level even appeared to be doing political strategizing for Trump, telling the previous president, “you might be at your finest while you’re speaking a couple of constructive imaginative and prescient of the longer term.” Trump doesn’t have a constructive imaginative and prescient for the longer term, for no matter it’s value.
And that’s really probably the most harmful ingredient of interviews like these. At the very least when Trump seems on Fox Information or some unhinged right-wing podcast, the viewers is already made up solely of individuals voting for Trump. However Fridman is somewhat completely different. His chats can enchantment to apolitical individuals, and there are in all probability many listeners who don’t care a lot about politics and can hear this as an endorsement of Trump as a traditional particular person.
Trump isn’t regular. He’s a wannabe fascist and adjudicated rapist whose darkish imaginative and prescient for the nation consists of tearing aside households, denying girls the fitting to well being care, and literally executing people who he believes have betrayed him. And clearly, none of that stuff was introduced up by Fridman, a horrible interviewer who achieves nothing however carrying water for a harmful man.
The podcast is on the market on YouTube, however for those who don’t wish to sit by means of your complete factor, we’ve received an inventory summarizing it beneath.
- Trump rambled about newer types of media outdoors of TV with genius strains like, “The entire airplane of platform is altering so much.”
- Fridman requested Trump what he’d particularly do to barter an finish to the conflict in Ukraine. Trump stated his typical bullshit that he’d finish the battle with Russia however didn’t wish to give away an excessive amount of, saying “I can’t offer you these plans.”
- Trump complained that Harris had a “softball” interview with Harris, which is a humorous factor to complain about in the course of a softball interview with Fridman.
- Trump stated there was a “nice chance” of World Conflict III.
- Trump stated changing Joe Biden on the ticket was a “coup,” and repeatedly stumbled over his phrases making an attempt to speak about how Biden is mentally checked out.
- Trump falsely stated the 2024 election was a “fraud.”
- Trump falsely stated undocumented immigrants vote in elections.
- Trump falsely stated different nations are emptying their psychological establishments into the U.S.
- Trump known as the try on his life “not a nice expertise.”
- Fridman requested Trump about Mission 2025 and the previous president stated he hadn’t learn the 900-page coverage doc. Trump tried to distance himself from the plan however admitted there are “some issues I like” about it.
- Trump stated he agrees with the legalization of medical hashish however instructed he doesn’t like leisure weed.
- Fridman informed Trump that he lately did ayahuasca and stated the religious advantages might assist members of Congress in the event that they used it. Trump simply appeared very confused throughout that portion of the interview.
- Trump stated “I assume I’d do it, however I haven’t been requested and I’m not asking them” concerning the Joe Rogan podcast.
- Trump acknowledged his “reposts” on Fact Social can get him in bother, with out recognizing that his regular posts are simply as fascist and unhinged. “I name it my typewriter,” Trump stated of his Fact Social posts.
- Trump additionally denied calling lifeless troopers “suckers and losers.”
- Trump spewed many lies about Kamala Harris, together with conspiracy theories about her being a secret Communist.
- Trump stated he must “combat hearth with hearth” when individuals are attacking him.
- Trump repeatedly praised authoritarian figures, together with Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban.
- Trump falsely stated NATO wouldn’t exist with out him.
- Trump stated he’s gotten extra publicity than “anyone who’s ever lived.”
- Trump stated, “you’re speculated to go to heaven, ideally, not hell. However you’re speculated to go to heaven for those who’re good.”
- Trump additionally denied breaking federal legislation when he used Arlington Nationwide Cemetery because the backdrop for his campaign commercial.
- In one of many solely direct moments of the interview, Fridman identified that Trump “had some hesitation” about releasing a few of the paperwork on Epstein. Trump responded that he didn’t suppose he had any hesitation and insisted “I’m not concerned.”
Arguably the funniest line of the interview was Trump saying “I don’t speak concerning the previous, I speak concerning the future,” which is sort of hilarious. All this man talks about is the previous and the way he was cheated in 2020. However Trump’s rhetoric isn’t very humorous total. It’s a menace to the security and safety of the U.S. if this man takes energy once more.
Trump stated at one level within the interview that he’s “main within the polls,” however he’s really struggling now that Kamala Harris has entered the race. Harris has taken a stable lead in nationwide polls, in addition to slight leads in most battleground states, throughout a number of completely different pollsters.
FiveThirtyEight’s nationwide polling common at the moment has Harris up 3.2 factors. However no one is aware of for positive what’s going to occur till individuals really go to the polls in November. And whereas it’s not clear whether or not Fridman will vote for Trump, it nearly doesn’t matter. The podcaster has already helped Trump with this interview greater than a single vote ever might.
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