Joe Rogan interviewed former President Donald Trump Friday, marking the first time the popular The Joe Rogan Experience podcast will feature a former president on the program.
CBS News reports the interview, which took place in Austin, Texas, and was published to Rogan's social media channels on Friday night, was nearly three hours long.
According to the Associated Press, Rogan asked Trump if he is "completely committed" to bringing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., into his administration. In August, Kennedy halted his independent presidential bid and endorsed Trump.
"Oh, I completely am," Trump responded, according to the AP. "But the only thing I want to be a little careful about with him is the environmental. Because he doesn't like oil, I love oil and gas." Trump said he'll tell Kennedy to "focus on health, do whatever you want," the AP reported.
Rogan, 57, suggested the assassination attempts wouldn’t have happened if the media — and Democrats such as his rival Vice President Kamala Harris and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — didn’t conflate Trump with Adolf Hitler.
“They love to take things out of context and distort them,” Rogan said.
“The rhetoric is that you’re Hitler, and in order to stop Hitler, you have to do whatever it takes.”
The interview comes as the former president has stepped back from some appearances on major television networks (including CBS News), while providing interviews to podcasters and YouTube channels like the Logan Paul Podcast.
The Joe Rogan Experience, the most popular podcast on Spotify, has built an audience of more than 14 million on the streaming service.
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