Joe Rogan Corners RFK Jr. on Donald Trump’s ‘Disturbing’ ICE Raids
When Trump’s high well being goon was tasked with answering for the president’s brutal immigration crackdowns, he positioned the blame on the press for amplifying “Trump derangement syndrome.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted admitted Friday on The Joe Rogan Experience that a number of the scenes that got here out of Minneapolis final month—particularly the killing of two American citizens by federal brokers—have been “very disturbing.” But Kennedy faulted the media and “Democrats” quite than the administration that gave the orders for the Midwest operation.
“The thing that makes it most disturbing, is because there’s so much interaction with protesters, which is weird that the Democrats are telling protesters to go out there and stop law enforcement from doing their job,” Kennedy stated to host Joe Rogan.
“That’s not how protests usually work,” he asserted. “If you don’t like US drug policy… you wouldn’t send people to try to interfere with people who are, who are uh, who are arresting a drug dealer. And when you have thousands and thousands of people doing that, there’s going to be thousands of interactions, and some of those are going to end badly because you have armed people doing dangerous things. And when you have crowds doing that, it’s going to blow up.”
Kennedy, 72, then alluded to how ICE operations in Minneapolis are winding down—after two deaths and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bungled messaging.
“Nobody is happy with the way that things have looked, particularly in Minnesota, but a lot of it is because of this capacity of the press to take ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ and amplify it into public outrage and set up a situation,” Kennedy claimed.
ICU nurse Alex Pretti and unarmed mom Renee Good, each 37, have been shot to demise by federal immigration brokers in two separate incidents in January. Their deaths have been captured by quite a few cellphone movies exhibiting that none of them have been attacking officers when the shootings occurred. Still, following each of their killings, Noem and different administration officers referred to Good and Pretti as “domestic terrorists.”
Kennedy went on to attract comparisons between the Trump administration’s deportation actions and people of former President Barack Obama.
“President Obama deported more people than President Trump did—the most in history,” Kennedy stated. “Nobody cares.” He went on to assert that 76 individuals have been shot throughout the deportation course of throughout the Biden administration and that “none of it made headlines.”
“About half of those people were killed. None of it made the news. Now, because it’s Trump doing it, you have the entire Democratic Party and the media establishment saying, ‘Oh, look at the horrible things. He’s a dictator.’ But he’s doing what he promised to do to the American people.”
For his half, Rogan additionally stated a number of the scenes got here off as disturbing to individuals. But the podcaster and UFC commentator, who endorsed Trump in 2024, argued that they need to even be disturbed by how some protests are organized. Rogan even questioned their legality.
“These protests are organized and paid for, and that’s crazy, right?” Rogan, 58, fretted. “When you discover that out, and you discover out that individuals can really be paid to protest, and that they supply them with indicators—they inform them what they do. It’s organized. They have Signal chats.”
“There’s been a lot of people online talking about being paid to protest in certain places, and that’s kind of insane that that’s even legal—that you can organize a mob and pay them to go and make a bunch of noise,” he said.
The concept of paid protesters has lengthy been a MAGA obsession. FBI Director Kash Patel claimed he would launch a probe into the founders of anti-ICE protests following the capturing of Renee Good in January. Later that month, Trump repeatedly claimed the protesters in Minneapolis have been paid agitators. Politifact reported that these claims didn’t stand as much as scrutiny.
