Interview Quotes

Early Political Career and Media Portrayal

"And you sat, you got introduced as our friend Donald Trump. That's right. Whoopi Goldberg gives you a big hug and a kiss. Joy Behar gives you a big hug. Barbara Walters gives you a big hug. They all loved you. They were all talking about how you're, or you might be conservative in your financial positions, but you're very liberal socially. They were talking about you in such a favorable light. The audience was cheering."

— Joe Rogan • 00:37:58

"And then you actually started winning in the polls. And then the machine started working towards you. But there's probably no one in history that I've ever seen that's been attacked the way you've been attacked. And the way they've done it, so coordinated and systematically. And when you see those same people in the past, very favorable to you, like Oprah, when you were on Oprah's show, she was encouraging you."

— Joe Rogan • 00:59:06

"The View, I was on The View many, many times. And they loved me."

— Donald Trump • 02:00:36

The Presidency and Governing

"The biggest thing was just that first moment of being in this hallowed, it was really a hallowed place to me. It was surreal. It was beyond, to me, that was the experience. It was a surreal experience. And then with time, that wears off. With time, it becomes, you know, your place where you stay."

— Donald Trump • 06:37:42

"The biggest mistake I made was I picked some people. I picked some great people, you know, but you don't think about that. I picked some people that I shouldn't have picked. I picked a few people that I shouldn't have picked. And neocons. Yeah, neocons or bad people or disloyal people or..."

— Donald Trump • 13:30:12

"The heads of NBC came over. Paul Talegny, all the top people came over to see me, try and talk me out of it because they wanted to have me extend. The Apprentice was doing well. So it was 14 seasons, it was 12 years. We had one, two seasons where we had a double, which rarely happens. It was just a hot show."

— Donald Trump • 01:43:50

"I said, you know, I want to do this. What happened is, previously, like three years, four years before that, they did a poll. They had Mitt Romney. And somehow, they put me in a poll and I blew everybody away. I blew him away."

— Donald Trump • 01:48:00

"But nobody has ever been treated that way. And you see that. I mean, you see where in the Washington Post, very early on, they said, 'Well, now the impeachment stuff starts.' And it did. I mean, it literally started from the beginning. So I had survival and run the nation."

— Donald Trump • 07:05:19

Media and Political Discourse

"The worst I've ever seen, though, and I've seen the worst. I mean, I've been a part of it. I've seen the worst. Kamala goes on 60 Minutes, gave an answer that a child wouldn't give. It was so bad. And 60 Minutes took the answer out. They took the whole and they put another answer in."

— Donald Trump • 17:34:27

"They edited it deceptively."

— Joe Rogan • 17:35:01

"Which didn't make sense either. But it was better. They took the... well, it wasn't editing. It was fraud."

— Donald Trump • 17:35:20

"They make them up entirely. They do that too."

— Donald Trump • 17:45:02

"The rebels are Republicans now. They're like, 'You want to be a rebel? You want to be punk rock? You want to like buck the system? You're a conservative now.' That's how crazy."

— Joe Rogan • 31:35:12

"The media, to a large extent, acts as a propaganda arm for the Democratic Party."

— Joe Rogan • 30:31:10

The 2020 Election and Fraud Allegations

"The bloodbath hoax. Yes. I was talking about the auto industry. It's a bloodbath because Japan, of course, and China are taking our auto. And I said, 'It's a bloodbath.' They said, 'Oh, he used the word bloodbath.'"

— Donald Trump • 32:33:03

"I think they should have had a primary. Even if it was a short primary. They shouldn't have picked her. And then she's going to say, 'I shouldn't have picked this guy.' That guy's a disaster."

— Joe Rogan • 34:09:20

"Because they wanted to be able to cheat. Because their policies are no good."

— Donald Trump • 37:43:10

Election Integrity and Voting Machines

"Elon Musk, I think he said it publicly. I hope he did, because I wouldn't want to be the one. But he's a really smart guy. And he's a very good guy with computers, right? You'd say he's one of the smartest people alive."

— Joe Rogan • 40:06:10

"Paper ballots. It's 8% the cost, and you're done by 9 o'clock in the evening, right? Now we have these sophisticated machines. It goes up to heaven. It goes all over the place."

— Donald Trump • 40:46:25

"A voter ID. How about... Voter ID is the most bizarre argument that I've never seen anybody articulate in a way that's convincing. Because they want to cheat. Why you don't need voter... Well, it doesn't make sense in any other way."

— Joe Rogan • 41:04:04

International Relations and Geopolitics

"I had a very good relationship with him. He wouldn't have done it. But he also wouldn't have done it because of the... you know, one of the reasons that what happened is, number one, he doesn't respect Biden at all. Not even a little bit."

— Donald Trump • 26:05:41

"I said, Emmanuel, you're taxing American companies. We're not going to allow you to do that. 'Oh, Donald, I cannot do it. Nothing I can do. It's already been passed.' I said, Emmanuel, if you do that, I'm going to put a hundred percent tariff when your wines and champagnes are coming to the United States, and you're going to regret that you ever did it."

— Donald Trump • 46:54:33

Environmental Policy and Energy

"So the environmental is the biggest tool for stopping growth. The biggest tool. The other is regulation. And if you speak to Elon, he said the regulation now to send a rocket up to anywhere, even if you do everything, it's almost becoming impossible."

— Donald Trump • 30:31:40

"Look, I had during our four years, we had the cleanest air and the cleanest water. I view it differently. I say air and water. Remember this: it costs much more to do things environmentally clean."

— Donald Trump • 31:01:54

"But you could have all of the water you need. All of that land would have more water. The whole thing could be like that little patch."

— Joe Rogan • 40:24:06

"I think windmills are really disruptive when you talk about the environment. They killed the birds. You want to see a bird cemetery? Go under a windmill someday."

— Donald Trump • 43:29:04

Health and Pharmaceuticals

"But the other thing, we don't have. Well, we do actually. It's being held. You know, we have certain areas where we have great raw earth material, and we're not allowed to use it because of the environment."

— Donald Trump • 43:06:12

"And you have a guy like RFK Jr. who spends an enormous amount of time highlighting those things. You could say how they'd be very reluctant to have you support him."

— Joe Rogan • 45:40:50

"But most of these problems that these people are suffering from wouldn't exist if we put an emphasis on metabolic health. If people got healthier, started eating nutritious food and taking vitamins, a whole host of these problems that people are having would go away."

— Joe Rogan • 48:30:52

UFC and Combat Sports

"The greatest athletes in the world. And the most dangerous sport in terms of like, it's, I always call it high-level problem-solving with dire physical consequences. That's what fighting is."

— Joe Rogan • 54:02:32

"In my opinion, you have to judge them at their very peak. You can't judge them when they're hanging on and still fighting. You can't judge them when they're coming up. You've got to judge them in that championship peak."

— Joe Rogan • 54:59:40

"They say you can't bury the blades. So I even question that."

— Donald Trump • 44:01:08

The "Enemy Within" and Border Security

"The biggest problem in the world today is not global warming. It's nuclear warming. And we have idiots that are negotiating for us."

— Donald Trump • 27:14:10

"We have a bigger problem in my opinion, with the enemy from within. And it drives him crazy when I use that term. But we have an enemy from within. We have people that are really bad people that I really think want to make this country unsuccessful."

— Donald Trump • 30:23:18

"One of the things that's been very clear, one of the things that's been very clear, is that they've moved a large percentage of these migrants that are coming across the border illegally. They've moved them to swing states."

— Joe Rogan • 35:44:02

UFOs and Government Secrets

"I interviewed jet pilots that were solid people. Perfect. I mean, great pilots, great everything. And they said, 'We saw things, sir, that were very strange.'"

— Donald Trump • 51:04:35

"It moves in a way that would turn a human being into jelly if they were inside of it. The G-force. No one would survive."

— Joe Rogan • 52:07:56

"So they asked me not to do it. There's a Martin Luther King file too, by the way. That they'd like to see. I don't know if you know, but there is that."

— Donald Trump • 54:21:23