Trump rolls out Joe Rogan for White House psychedelics announcement and jokes he’d like some meds for anxiousness | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump cracked a joke about eager to take a psychedelic throughout a White House occasion touting the advantages of the medicine.

The president made the comment at a Saturday morning occasion within the Oval Office, the place he signed an government order to “accelerate medical treatments for serious mental illness,” together with the therapeutic advantages of LSD, psilocybin, ecstasy, and different psychedelics.

In attendance was the favored podcaster, Joe Rogan, who has advocated for the therapies however has additionally lately been fiercely crucial of Trump’s warfare in Iran.

Trump touted the success of the psychedelic drug ibogaine—a Schedule I managed substance—and cited a research through which he stated individuals skilled an “80 to 90 percent reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety within one month.”

“Can I have some, please?” Trump quipped, prompting the room to erupt in laughter. “I’ll do whatever it takes…I don’t have time to be depressed. If you stay busy enough, maybe that’s what works too, that’s what I do.”

Rogan, who endorsed Trump for president in 2024, stated the manager order happened after he despatched Trump a textual content message about psychedelic therapies.

Veteran organizations and psychedelic advocates have lengthy contended that the ibogaine, which is constructed from a shrub native to West Africa, has nice promise for hard-to-treat situations akin to post-traumatic stress dysfunction and opioid dependancy.

Retired Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who has written about his struggles with melancholy and PTSD within the memoir Lone Survivor, instructed Trump how ibogaine modified his life “for the better.”

“You’re going to save a lot of lives with it,” Luttrell instructed Trump. “I’d like to say how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to go through the program and receive the Ibogaine.”

“I want to tell everybody how this happened,” Rogan defined. “I sent President Trump some information… the text message that came back: ‘Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it,’” Rogan claimed. “It was literally that quick.”

Trump clarified that he “had it checked out” with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was additionally in attendance Saturday, and different members of his administration. “I didn’t just do it,” the president stated.

The president additionally took a swipe at Rogan for being a “liberal” after the podcaster referred to as out Trump’s “terrifying” warfare in Iran on his present Thursday.

“Anytime you’re involved with you’re shooting missiles into towns and blowing things up, blowing up infrastructure, blowing up bridges, you know, and Israel’s blowing up Lebanon,” Rogan stated on his podcast. “Now, it’s like, What the f*** are we doing? How is this still going on?”

“We all respect Joe,” Trump stated Saturday. “He’s a little bit more liberal than me and that’s okay.”

This week Rogan additionally poked enjoyable at Trump’s declare {that a} controversial AI-generated picture he posted on Truth Social depicted him as a health care provider— not Jesus.

Rogan was on the White House occasion after elevating the profile of ibogaine on his podcast. He has hosted former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the co-founder of a bunch referred to as Americans for Ibogaine, who made the case for decreasing federal limits on the drug on the present.

The administration is now taking steps to ease entry to psychedelics that Trump stated have been already designated as potential breakthroughs by federal regulators.

Owners of ibogaine clinics stated the affect of the order is not going to be rapid.

“There will be no insurance coverage, it will still be considered unapproved and non-covered care,” stated Tom Feegel of Beond Ibogaine, which operates a clinic in Cancun, Mexico. “But what it does mean is that ibogaine shifts from being fringe and underground to being federally acknowledged.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report