The Daily Populous Saturday November 9th, 2024 day edition
Authored by salon.com and submitted by ColonelBungle

Podcaster Joe Rogan urged Donald Trump to choose unity rather than retribution after his presidential election victory.

In Thursday's episode on his wildly popular podcast, Rogan expressed enthusiasm for Trump's second term, but only if the president-elect could abandon his worst impulses.

“He’s got to unite people. He’s got to not attack the left, not attack everybody, let them all talk their s**t, but unite,” Rogan said.

Rogan endorsed the president-elect the day before the election. The host spoke with Trump at length in October and listened to him call Democrats the “enemy from within,” but is still convinced Trump is the right man to depolarize the country.

Rogan made it clear that he thinks fears of a Trump dictatorship are overblown, noting that Trump has already held the office once. He blamed the media for fears of the second term that Trump is promising, singling out MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid as a doomsayer.

“Reid spent the entire time she was discussing Trump comparing him to Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, talking about a right-wing authoritarian regime as if he had never been president for four years and didn’t behave like any of those things,” Rogan said.

“We got a real chance to make real change,” Rogan added, sharing his excitement over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s potential role in Trump’s second administration. “This is like one of the first times ever where there’s a real chance to make real substantive change."

accountabilitycounts on November 9th, 2024 at 04:56 UTC »

He ran on revenge. You don't get to endorse a candidate running on revenge and then beg him not to do it, not if you want any credibility.

MurderBeans on November 9th, 2024 at 04:51 UTC »

Did he bring this up when they sat around for three hours on his podcast?

zubbs99 on November 9th, 2024 at 04:51 UTC »

Pleading only makes Trump more arrogant. You talked to the jackass for 3 hours you should've gotten a better read on him.