Joe Rogan’s interview with JD Vance: 5 takeaways

Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance I sat down with the popular podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday for a lengthy interview discussing his initial reaction to the assassination attempt on him. former President Donald Trumpviews on transgender rights and her favorite Netflix guilty pleasure, among a wide range of topics.

Rogan hosts “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the most-streamed podcast on Spotify with nearly 14.5 million followers. Its target audience consists mainly of young men; Trump and Vance are a key demographic of voters trying to vote in the 2024 election.

Vance’s appearance on the show comes less than a week before the contentious 2024 election and just days after Rogan spoke about all things Trump.election interference from aliens.

During the friendly conversation, which lasted more than three hours, Rogan frequently signaled that he agreed with Vance and on multiple occasions questioned Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ fitness for office.

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Vance frequently mentioned his wife and two daughters throughout the program, and at one point described himself as “a pretty boring guy.” In addition to in-depth policy discussions, Vance also opened up about his personal life and said he believes Netflix’s ‘Emily in Paris’ is “a masterpiece.”

Here are the highlights from the podcast episode.

anti-trans rhetoric

Rogan and Vance spoke at length transgender rights Early in the conversation, specifically about gender-affirming care for minors and whether people should be allowed to play on sports teams that match their gender identity.

“I’m the father of a two-year-old girl,” Vance said. “I don’t want him to enter athletic competitions where I’m afraid he’ll be beaten to death because we’re allowing a six-foot-tall male to compete in sports with him,” Vance said.

Vance also suggested that wealthy parents might go so far as to force their children to undergo sex surgery to get into better colleges and universities.

“If you’re a middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent and all you care about is whether your kid is going to Harvard or Yale, frankly that path has become a lot harder for a lot of upper-middle-class kids,” he said. He added: “The only way to participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans.”

Vance later argued that he wouldn’t be surprised if Trump “won the votes of regular gay men because they just want to be left alone anyway.”

“Now on top of that there’s crazy stuff like, ‘No, no, we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-olds who are transitioning gender,'” Vance said.

Biden’s ‘trash’ comments

Vance joked during the interview that he believed President Joe Biden was “trying to help” Donald Trump win the election, referencing the following comment Biden made earlier in the week: Trump supporters were “trash.”

Biden received backlash The comments from Republicans and some Democrats were about one supporter in particular: a comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at a Trump rally, the White House said.

Vance suggested the comment must have been an attempt to help Trump, given the criticism Biden has since received.

“After we win, I will be convinced that Joe Biden was always trying to help us,” Vance said. Also Biden’s jokingly wore a Trump 2024 hat During his visit to Pennsylvania on September 11.

Vance also told Rogan he would bet $20 that Biden planned to vote for Trump and $100 that his son, Hunter Biden, would support the Republican nominee over Kamala Harris.

Biden endorsed Harris after dropping out of the 2024 race in July and has been a vocal supporter of Harris’ campaign since then.

climate change

During a lengthy discussion about the environment, Vance argued that he “doesn’t have a strong view of what the environment is.” carbon footprint after all,” he seems to be babbling on about whether human-caused climate change exists.

“It’s interesting that the environmental movement in America talks about carbon footprint for all it’s worth. . . why we have the highest obesity rates in the world right now,” Vance said.

Rogan added that it was “disturbing” that “the green movement is also being profited from” and name-checked Bill Gates Investing billions of dollars in climate technology solutions.

In his interview with Trump, the podcaster also brought up an unproven statement: that wind turbines, a form of clean energy, negatively affect and even kill whales. There no evidence To support these statements. Most whale deaths known to humans are caused by boats and entanglement in fishing gear.

Where was Vance at that time? Trump assassination?

Vance told Rogan it was. playing mini golf with family When he learned that Trump had been shot in the ear while on duty in Ohio. Butler, Pennsylvania rally In June.

“I actually thought they killed him because when you first see the video, he grabs his ear and then he falls to the ground,” Vance recalled after watching video of Trump’s July 13 rally. “I said, ‘Oh my God, they killed him.'”

Vance said a few days ago Trump told him he was a frontrunner for the vice presidential candidate. Trump had flown to announce the news at the rally but decided against it.

Vance, a former Marine, said his immediate reaction to news of the assassination attempt was to load his guns.

“At first I was so angry, but then I go into fight-or-flight mode,” he said. “I grab my kids, throw them in the car, go home and load up all my guns. And I kind of stand like a sentry at our front door, and that was my reaction to that.

rogan talking to harris

Rogan expressed doubts about Harris’ candidacy for president at serval points throughout the podcast.

“It’s very strange that everyone accepts that this person, the least popular vice president ever, is now the solution to the problem,” he told Vance. as a solution.”

“As long as they prevent her from making these speeches that she’s allowed to make, they can make it happen, and the fact that this is happening without a primary should really concern people,” he said of Harris’ campaign.

Harris faced criticism for not doing many interviews in the first few months after taking over the Democratic nomination from Biden. He has since embarked on a media blitz, appearing on various podcasts, daytime talk shows, and news programs.

At one point, Harris was in talks to join Rogan’s show. The podcaster said earlier this week that Harris agreed to appear on his podcast but declined interview terms because she would have to travel and would want to talk to him for more than an hour.

“My sincere wish is to have a good conversation and get to know her as a person,” Rogan said of the possibility of interviewing Harris. “I really hope we can make this happen.”

This article first appeared on USA TODAY: Highlights from JD Vance’s interview with Joe Rogan