Trump on The Joe Rogan Experience details how he obliterated ISIS in a matter of weeks
On 10/25/2024, Donald Trump joined Joe Rogan’s podcast for a three-hour interview, discussing the 2024 campaign and current events. This marks Trump’s first appearance on Rogan’s show, a top podcast with millions of listeners nationwide. Trump has largely chosen podcast interviews over traditional media, targeting younger and male-skewed audiences. The podcast, recorded in Austin, Texas, afforded the Republican presidential nominee exposure to Rogan’s 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube. Rogan, the nation’s most-listened-to podcast host, is extremely influential with young male voters, who Trump is aiming to reach.
I defeated ISIS with the greatest generals. I had a guy who was so great.
I flew to Iraq. And I met the real generals, not these idiots that we deal with. And we knocked out, you know, I defeated 100% of the ISIS caliphate.
They said it would take five years. I did it in a matter of a few, literally a few weeks. And we hit them hard.
And he said, sir, we’re going to hit him here. We’re going to hit him there. We’re going to hit him here, there.
And I said, this guy’s great. I like this guy. I was told it would take five years.
That’s why I went. I said, how could it take five years? We have brand new fighters.
We have the best planes, the best weapons, the best guns, the best bombs. How could it possibly take that long? And I flew to, I flew and left at three o’clock in the morning.
Nobody knew I was going. I got on Air Force One and we started flying. And when we reached about half an hour away from Iraq, that was where the airport was, big airport, about a half an hour away, they said, sir, I’m sorry.
You’ll have to turn off all your lights. Why? We’re getting close to our site.
Our land. I said, I mean, we spent eight trillion dollars that we can’t leave the lights. I think of this.
Twenty years, eight trillion dollars that we can’t leave the lights on in a plane. I said, that’s OK. Turn the lights on.
I’m not going to fight him.
Joe Rogan
That’s what this is because it’s too dangerous, too dangerous because they see the light up in the air and they’ll shoot it.
Donald Trump
So I said, turn the lights off. Then they said, sir, we’re going to also pull your shades if that’s OK. The plane was pitch black.
All the lights outside, you know, the blinking, the blinking reds, they were all turned off. And I like to sit with pilots a lot of times. And these guys are specimens.
I always say they’re better looking than Tom Cruise. OK, and they’re even taller, like perfect specimens. These guys like for a fighter.
You know, you have some guys that are perfect specimens, right? And, you know, they pick they pick the best pilots in the Air Force, United States Air Force to fly Air Force One. And I get up there and I’m sitting and I’m feeling my way up.
You know, it’s up 747 as you go through the stairs. But I sort of knew my way up. There wasn’t a light in the plane.
I’m saying, can you imagine? We spent trillions of dollars and we’re trying to fly in blind. But I got into the plane.
The cockpit is dark, black, little tiny light. You could see the pilot, a perfect looking human being. His copilot, everybody was perfect.
They were all like movie stars. You know, it’s like I could have cast a movie with these guys and nobody would believe it because they were too good looking. So I said, how are we doing?
Sure, we’ll be landing in 10 minutes. And I look outside. There’s not a light.
And I’m saying, you know, I’ve landed a lot of planes. And you see like little lights at least. There’s nothing.
It’s just pure desert. And I said, OK, Captain, good. But I’m looking.
Now we’re, you’ve been in many planes where it has the computer sign saying 1,000 feet. Now it goes 1,900, 800. It’s a computer voice, but it sounds like, but it’s incredible voice.
700. I say, Captain, are we OK? I’m looking.
Are we OK, Captain? There’s no lights. And I’m looking, you know, normally when you land a plane.
Because I sit with the boss a lot. I think it’s great. I think it’s a great profession, everything.
It’s incredible. They’re incredible. These machines are incredible.
He said, sir, we’re fine. No problem, sir. I said, you know, I don’t see the lights up there, Captain.
Sure, we’re OK, you know. So I mean, I’m exaggerating a little bit. You know, problem with exaggerating, it’ll tell the story.
They’ll say, Trump was a coward. So I’m sitting with him, you know, 500 foot. And I’m telling you, there wasn’t a light on the runway.
Nothing. And we’re going in. You OK, Captain?
Everything good? Yes, sir. No problem.
We’ll be down in about one minute, sir. And I’m telling you, Joe, you know, there’s always a light. There’s not a little pin.
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Trump on how he obliterated ISIS in matter of weeks not 5 years, pilots better looking than Tom Cruise