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Joe Rogan painted a picture of a “very divided” MAGA on his podcast this week, saying that many Trump supporters are outraged over the US strikes on Iran since they voted for an end to “forever wars.”
“I think the whole MAGA thing right now is very divided, particularly because one of the things they voted for was no war. Well, now it seems like we’re in a war,” Rogan said Tuesday during an interview with Bernie Sanders.
“It’s quick, six months in and that’s already popped off, and then people are very concerned with now – what happens to our troops overseas that are in these bases in very vulnerable positions?”
Rogan also shared fears that “documented terror cells” might have snuck in over the border over the last four years, putting citizens at risk after the US led strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities.
Iran allegedly sent a message to Trump threatening to activate sleep-cell terror inside the US prior to the attacks, NBC News reported over the weekend.
Rogan praised Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who has long opposed Trump and most recently decried his attacks on Iran as unconstitutional.
“When a guy like Thomas Massie steps up and says something, he’s going to have a lot more support as well,” Rogan said.
Trump has hit back at Massie on social media and launched a PAC that aims to unseat him – but Rogan questioned whether “there’s a Streisand effect to that.”
“Don’t you think that there’s a blowback for that kind of thing? When people recognize that this guy should be allowed to have his own opinions, and [he] makes some reasonable points, and then people are gonna reject this idea,” Rogan said.
It’s not the first time Rogan has questioned Trump’s tactics during his second term – even though he famously hosted Trump on “The Joe Rogan Experience” before the presidential election last year. That episode racked up 20 million views on YouTube just 20 hours after its release.
But last week, Rogan took aim at the ICE blitzes led by Trump across Los Angeles.
“If the Trump administration, if they’re running and they said, ‘We’re gonna go to Home Depot and we’re gonna arrest all the people at Home Depot. We’re gonna go to construction sites and we’re going to just tackle people at construction sites,’ I don’t think anybody would have signed up for that,” Rogan said on his podcast.
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