Joe Rogan said he would vote for former President Donald Trump before President Joe Biden in a potential 2024 presidential matchup.
Rogan, who has expressed conservative viewpoints in the past, argued no candidate will successfully run against Trump due to supporters’ strong enthusiasm and loyalty towards the former president. Rogan on Friday credited Trump with having “effective” policies that were responsible for boosting the economy by relaxing regulations and decreasing unemployment.
“When you look at it from a policy perspective — if you just look at it on paper, what [Trump] did was effective,” Rogan began. “A lot of people think it was effective. You don’t like him as a personality, so you ignore that — don’t do that. Look at it in terms of a policy perspective. People liked the ideas that he was putting forward. And now you’re saying, ‘Oh, the wall is racist’ — fucking everybody thinks there needs to be a wall. Even the mayor of New York City is now calling to stop immigration into the city.”
“When you just look at what Trump’s policies were, and then, obviously COVID hits, there’s a lot to that: the lockdowns, the economic collapse, all the shit that came with that. None of that is good,” he continued. “And then Trump holds up this hope to bring us back to where we were when he was in office. You’re not gonna beat that. I don’t think you can beat that.” (RELATED: Joe Rogan Says DeSantis Would Be A ‘Good President’)
Rogan said government agencies’ alleged attempts to keep Trump from being president through the now-discredited Russian collusion allegations and through allegedly suppressing the story surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop is “scary.”
“He’d get my vote before Biden, I’ve said that before. I don’t think that — I never thought that Biden was gonna make it. I never thought that he was gonna be functional. You know, regardless of what kind of power the president actually has, it appears under Trump, the president has a lot more power than we think they do. But under Biden, it’s like he’s handled. He’s just out there talking and he’s like, ‘The real problem is Donald Trump. Donald Trump, what he’s done is terrible…’ It’s all nonsense,” Rogan said.
“It’s like everyone’s treating him with kid gloves because they don’t want to prop up Trump. They don’t want to go after him, because it will weaken the Democratic Party,” he continued.