Joe Rogan Calls Out Trump’s ‘No More Wars’ Promise Over Iran | EUROtoday

Podcast host Joe Rogan took purpose at President Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran on Tuesday, becoming a member of a refrain of voices who traditionally supported the president and are actually talking out in opposition to his intervention within the Middle East.

Rogan, who endorsed Trump simply days earlier than the 2024 election and attended his inauguration, stated throughout Tuesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” with visitor Michael Shellenberger, {that a} key promoting level of Trump’s marketing campaign was the promise of “no more wars.”

“Well, it just seems so insane based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right?” Rogan stated. “He ran on no more wars, and these stupid senseless wars, and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it.”

Shellenberger urged Trump was particularly in opposition to “endless wars.”

“Listen, man, they’re all endless,” Rogan replied, earlier than evaluating the present scenario to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s estimation of how lengthy the United States could be concerned in Iraq.

“Do you ever hear Rumsfeld talk about Iraq when it first happened? They were talking about like six weeks. Six weeks. Oh, yeah. Six weeks,” Rogan stated.

The feedback Rogan was referring to had been made by Rumsfeld forward of the U.S. invasion of Iraq that ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003.

“I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t gonna last any longer than that,” Rumsfeld stated in an interview with Infinity Broadcasting.

While Rogan didn’t immediately examine Rumsfeld’s feedback with current remarks made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, others have urged they echo what many Bush administration officers stated earlier than the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The progressive MeidasTouch Network outlet, for instance, posted a video evaluating Rumsfeld’s feedback with Hegseth’s feedback following the preliminary strike on Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces.

“We can say four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three,” Hegseth stated.

Other figures who beforehand endorsed Trump have additionally spoken out in opposition to his resolution to launch a navy marketing campaign in Iran. Former Fox News host and vocal Trump ally Tucker Carlson has fervently spoken out in opposition to U.S. intervention in Iran, calling the assault “absolutely disgusting and evil,” throughout an interview with ABC News in late February.

Carlson additionally urged the transfer is more likely to trigger a rift inside Trump’s base, saying, “This is going to shuffle the deck in a profound way.”

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), within the wake of her public falling out with the president, additionally spoke out in opposition to U.S. involvement in Iran.

“The Trump admin actually asked in a poll how many casualties voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran???” Greene wrote on X shortly after the assaults started. “How about ZERO, you bunch of sick fucking liars. We voted for America First and ZERO wars.”

Despite many on the proper breaking with Trump on this concern of Iran, current polling has discovered a overwhelming majority of registered Republicans assist the president’s actions. A Fox News ballot performed earlier this month discovered that 84% of Republicans approve of the present U.S. navy motion in opposition to Iran. However, that very same ballot discovered that the conflict is unpopular amongst Democrats and independents, with solely 20% and 40% approving of it, respectively.