Rogan Abandons Trump Before Birthday

0:00 We are only a day away from Donald Trump's big birthday bash. And the second biggest star of the show, Joe Rogan, is already causing problems for the president of the United States. And the feud between them has been in many ways quiet, but more public than ever as Rogan is pushing back on all the lies of this administration. And Donald Trump doesn't really seem to care. But I think he will considering how it is affecting his birthday. We are going to get into not only the latest problem for Donald Trump's birthday, why Rogan is furious about it, but also why Rogan is abandoning and lashing out against this administration. We've got so much to cover. God, it's just so fun talking about Donald Trump's birthday falling apart. But we do have to start with the latest reason, another that they didn't

0:45 think about of why Donald Trump's big day is about to be ruined badly. The tiny problem that could bring down Trump's giant UFC birthday bash. The UFC fighters won't be the only bloodthirsty ones at the event. The White House UFC's tournaments. Its biggest problem might be just a few millimeters in size. The UFC is hosting its America 250 celebration on Sunday, June 14th. Donald Trump's 80th birthday and Flag Day on the White House South lawn. But is an expected unexpected turn of events. Bugs are likely to be a major opponent during the executive mansion's first ever cage match. A University of Maryland entomologist Michael Ro told Axios Friday that the odds of a winged invasion during Sunday's festivities was

1:32 100%. The event is going to draw a big crowd, he said. But guess what? There are also going to be more bugs joining. The swarm will include midgetes, mayflies, stone flies, catis flies, winged beetles, a whole cadre of nightflying moths, mosquitoes, and possibly biting black flies. The buzz will also serve as a banquet for bats that feed on small flying insects. The unfortunate reality of the grounds has not been lost on UFC President Dana White, who told Boardroom that he had encountered a holy [ __ ] level of gnats during a visit last month to the White House. the recently renovated rose garden. The amount of gnats that were flying around, I'm like, "Holy shit." White said, "As soon as I got on the plane, I called my head of production and said, "Let me tell you about the

2:18 gnat situation. Fighters in the octagon will be lit by enormous 5tonon lighting ring that includes more than 170 square ft of LED light. A setup that the White House observed would be perfect magnets for all sorts of flying insects. God, mother nature has challenges in store for Donald Trump's birthday bash. Man, is this going to be funny. It also might rain, so that's great. It's going to be a disaster. Like, it is going to be an absolute disaster no matter what. If it doesn't rain, it'll be filled like a biblical event with flies and moths and mosquitoes and everything horrible winged. It's going to be really funny. And that was one of the reasons that Rogan pushed back against Trump. This was not the only reason. The reason that he's abandoning him is much funnier. But he even saw this coming. Joe Rogan urges

3:03 Trump to cancel crazy UFC birthday bash. It's gonna affect the grappling. He says being outside, it's going to be like hot oil wrestling. Everyone's going to be sweaty as f. Joe Rogan says he would never have approved MMA fights on Donald Trump's White House lawn birthday party because they're outside. on his hugely popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan brought up the spectacle, saying he felt uncomfortable with the government being in the business of entertainment. It's the bread and circus thing. It's not for the White House to be putting on a sporting event. We hired the government to run our country, not entertain us. Rogan also said he had a problem with the structure called the claw. I don't like it because I think they should be fighting indoors always. I think world

3:50 championship fights should be fought in a controlled environment. I would have never wanted to do it. I would have said, "We can't do it. They have to be in controlled environments. We can't have somebody win or lose because they're outside and it's muggy." "This doesn't make any sense to me," he continued. "It's going to affect the grappling. It's going to be like hot oil wrestling. Everyone's going to be sweaty as fuck." It's really funny that like this was the first complaint that Rogan offered up like, "Oh man, it's not going to be a great fighting environment." You know, also maybe the White House doesn't need to be putting on a UFC cage match for the president of the United States birthday. Wasting almost $und00 million for a fight that nobody wants. Like I I don't know. We do have an arena. We have Capital One Arena. They could have done could have done it there. It seemed like

4:35 a much easier sell, but nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Got to put on a spectacle for Donniey's birthday. But this is what Rogan pushed back on, which is kind of funny. Again, his big chief grievance was the fighting conditions, not the waste at the White House. But Rogan has changed his tune a little bit. And hours hours before Donald Trump's birthday, he had this to say. Just a complete abandonment of the administration. We're >> all pissed. We were all, you know, we all thought that, you know, all that stuff was going to be released right after the election. It's going to we're going to drain the swamp and find all the pedophiles. And >> well, the the first term was more like that. That's what gave me hope for this term. The first term there was some draining the swamp going on. I felt then we had the Biden disaster and now the second term has been I don't even know what this is. I don't even know what it

5:21 is. >> Well, it would have been a whole lot different for first of all if we didn't bomb Iran. I feel like we bombed him the first time we were good. The second time was like even the first time I was like what the [ __ ] are we doing? >> Yeah. >> And then when they were saying like this is it the the the escalation's over. We're going to work this out. Like oh >> yeah. And the second time when we bombed him, I was like, "Oh, [ __ ] great." >> Now, and the most people don't want it. That's the real problem. Most people in the country don't want it. Now, look, I'm no [ __ ] foreign policy expert. I don't know what's going on over there. But I do know that all the people I know that really support Israel above everything else, they're [ __ ] super happy about it. >> And I'm like, but all the people I know that are like America first or people that are like no new wars, that really

6:07 thought that we're going to change things and this is all just for money. We're not going to sacrifice soldiers for [ __ ] money. Those people are all upset. >> Joe, um I know you have a real big problem with this Donald Trump guy. Uh I think it would be smart if you called him or talked to him in person at the White House. Like maybe you could communicate some of these grievances. Maybe you could tell the president to stop being so Israel first. Maybe you could tell him to release the files. You did go to the Oval Office. He he did take a shot at you. So may maybe you could air this all out publicly on the air during the UFC. You could say, "Hey, we're at the White House, a place where they don't like to release files. Maybe you could take this opportunity." But of course, he's not going to because no matter how, you know, masculine Rogan frames himself as, you know, no matter how many supplements he takes, doesn't

6:53 matter how, you know, strong like pounds per, you know, inch his kickboxing strikes are. Yeah, you're not a tough guy if you will not stand up to this dude. And so you're not. But he should and he could. He's like kind like like publicly this is an abandonment of all of all of Trump. He's calling out all of his failures and all of his failures amount to the entirety of this administration. So it seems like an opportunity. You know, all these guys who want to talk about politics want to do so in the most ignorant way possible, right? They want to they want to latch on to the conspiracy theories. They want to latch on to the idiots and goobers. And then when [ __ ] doesn't work out for them and they're proved wrong, they want to say, "Well, why did you listen to me in the first place?" I know that I do my

7:39 whole production for people to for people to listen to me, but you know, why would you do that? That's your fault. They want to be ignorant to it, right? They want to love the office of the presidency and think it's cool that they get to talk to the president or hang out with the president, but they don't want to be aware of what that means. They just want to say, "Oh, the office." Well, the office isn't the office anymore. The White House isn't the White House. They tore part of it down and put a UFC cage match up. So, it's not the White House anymore. It's been fundamentally changed in the office of the presidency. Fundamentally changed by Donald Trump. So, you're just being ignorant. And all of these guys are. And they refuse to acknowledge that and they refuse to engage. And it is quite embarrassing. It is quite quite embarrassing for them. But it should come as no surprise to anyone. That's

8:25 just who these guys are. But thankfully, we are um we are seeing a couple of breaks with Donald Trump, just a little bit here and there. And it mostly comes from Republicans who know that they're trying to save themselves. We know Republicans have not grown a conscience. Some of them a grievance they've grown and some of them an understanding, a very cynical one, of the political baggage that Donald Trump is. And so they are taking a few steps away from him. Of course, we've seen that on the ballroom. We've seen it recently on the weaponization fund, which is only really getting worse for Donald Trump. And we saw Chris Hayes break that all down with one of my favorite members of Congress, Joe Nagus. Some important reporting on that right here. Donald Trump and his administration have been talking out of both sides of their mouth about the $1.8

9:12 billion slush fund for insurrectionists. First, Trump's acting attorney general and personal attorney was saying this to Congress. >> We are not moving forward with the fund. Period. Not moving forward ever. >> Correct. >> Oh, there's no more fun then. Is there any way that you could put this in writing? >> I'm not committing to putting anything in writing. I'm going to set it to over and over again. I mean, I I don't know what the purpose of putting something in writing. I'm telling you what we're doing. >> Oh, yeah. What is the purpose of putting something in writing? Right. You ever buy a house just on someone's word? Just take my word for it. Todd Blanch. Well, why should he put it in writing? DOJ lawyers have also been telling the courts, "Don't worry about it. It's dead." But the president disagrees.

9:58 >> Me personally, I think the weaponization fund is a great idea. And so do many other Republicans. You have to get it approved. If they get it approved, that's great. If they don't get it approved, I'd be disappointed. >> Yesterday, a report in the Atlantic confirming that quote, "Trump isn't giving up on his slush fund." that behind the scenes, Justice Department and other Trump administration officials have quietly assured allies that plans for some form of payout remain on track. Well, today a federal judge referred to the mixed messages about the scheme in ordering the DOJ to declare in writing, Mr. Blanch, that the fund is dead once and for all and for it to be signed by both Todd Blanch and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. Without that written declaration, federal judge Leone

10:43 Mcprinma said, "We just don't have the absolute certainty this fund won't rear its head in another form." Congressman Joe Nagus is Democrat of Colorado. He's assistant Democratic leader, a member of the Judiciary Committee. It's nice to have you here in person. >> Great to be here. >> Um, well, what do you make of the uh the reticence to put it in writing and the and the Atlantic reporting that they're sending signals to people that might be the beneficiaries that we're going to try to work something out? >> Uh, Chris, well, it's first great to be here. It is all so outlandish it's hard to kind of conjure the right words to describe it. And I also think it's important to put this in historical context. This is the most corrupt presidential administration in the history of the country, bar none. One has to go back maybe to the teapot dome scandal a century ago to find a cabinet and an administration that is more immersed in corruption than this one. And I think this president is myopically

11:29 focused on enriching himself and his family. And part of what is being lost in the context of this weaponization fund, this slush fund, is the origin of the fund. The impetus was his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS that he controls. That that part of it is kind of been lost uh in this conversation. I am grateful that the federal judge issued the order that uh that it did earlier today, the court in Virginia, but obviously the Congress is going to have to step in to provide some perpetual permanent blocking of this fund from ever being ever materialized. >> Yeah. Just to stay on that for a second, you me you mentioned TDOT and I might be recalling this incorrectly, but I was reading the other day that the money had issued at Teapot Dome, which had to do with sort of um contracts, right? That's right. that that issue was about $10 million in inflationadjusted terms.

12:16 Correct. In today's dollars, correct? That was the biggest scandal uh of its time. In terms of Congress, what did it say to you? I this happened in the other house from the one that you serve in, but it was very interesting to me the way they engineered those votes you saw in the reconciliation bill. They they created these sort of fake amendments that they gave enough cover to their frontline members to vote against the fund. But you will note they could have just killed the fund in that actions and they did not. Well, that's precisely right. I mean, first I give a lot of credit to the Senate Democrats who fought viciferously. Senator Michael Bennett introduced an amendment to try to kill this weaponization fund. But, as you said, a number of Republicans had engineered an outcome by which a few of their most vulnerable members, Senator from Ohio, Senator from Alaska, Senator from Maine, were able to vote against

13:01 keeping the fund. >> Even the new senator from Florida, who no one thinks has a tough race, but is on the ballot. >> That's right. Senator Moody, which >> Republicans aren't pushing back. Let's make that clear. And I think Joe and Chris made that clear that this is not push back. This is just strategic absolvement of activity with Trump, right? They're still all in. So, we need to hold them to account on that. We are certainly going to on this show. And if you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video. If you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. Keep on fighting, y'all. Don't let them silence you. And until next time, I'll see you