JFK assassination, UFOs and depression: 6 highlights from Trump's interview with Joe Rogan
Neo-con mistakes of first term
Trump admitted that one of the biggest mistakes of his first term was surrounding himself with people whom he shouldn't have trusted, which he conceded was because he lacked experience in governing.
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"The one question that you'll ask me that I think you'll ask me that people seem to ask – and I always come up with the same answer – if I, the one mistake, because I had a lot of success, great economy, great everything was great with the military, rebuilt the biggest tax cuts in history, all the stuff we did, we had a great presidency," Trump said.
Trump also touted his ability to place three conservative justices on the Supreme Court.
"Three Supreme Court justices. Most people get none. You know, you pick them young. This way, they're there for 50 years. So, you know, even if a president is there for eight years, oftentimes they never have a chance. I had three. It was the luck of the draw."
"But I will say that it always comes back to the same answer," Trump said. "The biggest mistake I made was I picked some people, I picked some great people, you know, but you don't think about that. I picked some people that I shouldn't have picked. I picked a few people that I shouldn't have picked."
"And neocons," Rogan added, to which Trump replied, "Yeah, neocons or bad people or disloyal people.”
One of the people Trump hired and later fired was John Bolton, and Trump revealed that businessman Phil Ruffin told him Bolton was a “bad guy” after he'd hired him.
"And he was right,” Trump said. “But he was good in a certain way. He's a nut job. And every time I had to deal with a country when they saw this whack job standing behind me, they said, 'Man, Trump's going to go to war with us.' He was with [former President George W.] Bush when they went stupidly into the Middle East. They should have never done it. I used to say it as a civilian, so I always got more publicity than other people.”
