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“It’s baffling, considering what Trump campaigned on,” Rogan expressed.
“This is why many people feel let down, right?”
“He promised to put an end to these unnecessary, pointless conflicts.”
“Now we find ourselves embroiled in a situation we can’t even clearly explain.”
Michael Shellenberger, his guest, noted that Trump specifically opposed “endless wars.”
“They’re all endless. Do you ever hear (former secretary of defence Donald) Rumsfeld talk about Iraq when it first happened?” Rogan said.
“They were talking about like six weeks.”
Unlike many other podcasters, Rogan does not position himself as a political partisan.
The podcaster has a vast support base among an elusive demographic – men who don’t otherwise follow the news.
The Joe Rogan Experience has been the most popular podcast on Spotify for the past five years.
His remarks on Iran are not the first time Rogan has broken with the president.
In January he compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Gestapo.
“You don’t want militarised people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be US citizens that just don’t have their papers on them,” Rogan said.
“Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Fifty-three per cent of voters opposed the military action, according to a poll from Quinnipiac.
Just 40 per cent support it.
Sixty-two per cent of voters think the Trump administration has not given a clear explanation as to why they have attacked Iran.
The same poll showed Trump’s approval rating to be at just 37 per cent.
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