Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep442-sa See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. 0:00 - Introduction 1:09 - Psychology of winning and losing 3:51 - Politics is a dirty game 5:28 - Business vs politics 8:04 - War in Ukraine 9:53 - Kamala Harris interview on CNN 10:36 - Trump-Harris debate 13:33 - China 15:47 - 2020 election 24:03 - Project 2025 24:52 - Marijuana 27:13 - Joe Rogan 30:54 - Division 38:00 - Communism and fascism 41:36 - Power 43:36 - UFOs & JFK 44:16 - Jeffrey Epstein 45:55 - Mortality and religion 47:25 - Lex AMA *Transcript:* lexfridman.com/donald-trump-transcript *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: lexfridman.com/contact *EPISODE LINKS:* Trump's Truth: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump Trump's X: x.com/realDonaldTrump Trump's Instagram: instagram.com/realdonaldtrump Trump's Facebook: facebook.com/DonaldTrump Trump's TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@realdonaldtrump Trump's Website: www.donaldjtrump.com *SPONSORS:* To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts: *Ground News:* Unbiased news source. Go to lexfridman.com/s/ground_news-ep442-sa *Encord:* AI tooling for annotation & data management. Go to lexfridman.com/s/encord-ep442-sa *Eight Sleep:* Temp-controlled smart mattress. Go to lexfridman.com/s/eight_sleep-ep442-sa *NetSuite:* Business management software. Go to lexfridman.com/s/netsuite-ep442-sa *Shopify:* Sell stuff online. Go to lexfridman.com/s/shopify-ep442-sa
Lol Trump won't debate Kamala. No president has ever done podcasts like this before, so it's hilarious that it's the new standard that a person just has to do in order to be worthy to be president. You suck up all Trump's lies though so it matters nothing to you that this is 1 hour of bullshit.
@@Wopedomerpeople like yourself really are a trip. You hate the guy sure, look at the opposing choice. She does zero interviews outside the resent disgrace. Talk about grifter, she changes her voice, positions, stances depending on the crowd. Lifelong independent here who will never again vote Democrat within their current belief system. You guys truly deserve to live under Harris, unfortunately you drag the rest of us down with you meaning we have no choice but to oppose.
The problem is that they know how to avoid answering anything real. This interview told us nothing new and lex didn't press him on anything and just allowed him to use the time to ramble. The ukraine question is a perfect example. We got no new info about anything. Why didn't lex press him at all? This man tried to use fake electors to overturn the election. Why didn't he get pressed on that?
Kamala is busy with packed houses for rallies. No offense, people are easily impressed if they think Trump rambling "Everything I do is the best, everything my enemies does is the worst" is a real conversation.
Kinda seemed like Lex wasn't very prepared for this interview. Virtually every answer had some obvious lie and/misinformation in it, yet there were almost no push back or follow up questions. It's not so much an interview if you could swap out the interviewer with someone holding up que cards with questions written on them.
Nahh he definitely had to agree to some terms about no "hardballs" or pushback in order to get this to happen. At that point he should've just decided it's not worth it but he did it for the views instead. Pretty disappointing. If he grills someone like Sam Harris nothing happens, but if he did it with Trump firstly he would walk out on the interview and second the pro-Trump people would fucking go after Lex in one way or another.
@@elle1672exactly I was expecting him to tell that story cause it’s a favorite of mine. Just the way he says “oh why did you send me a photo of my house” impersonating the guy lol.
“The country seems more divided than ever. What can you do to help alleviate some of the division?” “You can get rid of Biden and Harris. They’re terrible..”
@@drizz1256are you actually not able to see how ridiculous of an answer that is to the question, regardless of how “terrible” the two are? Or are you trolling, because I genuinely cannot tell
They laughed at Lex for always wearing a suit as though he was taking himself and podcasting too seriously. But the consistency of that professional integrity has created a platform, without the wild stigmas of the JRE, that make him a prime candidate to host the highest echelon of guests on the planet. Thus eclipsing his contemporaries. Congratulations Lex! You’re elevating the stratums of communication for our generation to where they ought to be!
Trump is right "politics is a dirty game". I like rambling interviews, but he got clearly tired intellectually, nearly sleepy by the end. Perhaps Kamala is playing better dirty/shrewd politics? :)
These podcasts are so much better than the regular interview because they ask questions that are so different than the mainstream media and that includes FOX
I’m a veteran and I regained myself again. PTSD is gone and my empathy came back after taking a few doses of mushrooms. They should be free for everyone. The world would be a beautiful place if we all took this mind healing medicine. After so many likes I just want to let you know. I was straight edge prior to doing them until the age of 27. I did shrooms for the first time at 29. I was desperate. Traditional psychiatric meds weren’t cutting it. So I decided to try shrooms. They are not meant for the weak minded. They can be dangerous too. Just be in a positive state of mind when taking them in a positive setting. If your body is comfortable you’ll have a great experience. It heals. But it can be dangerous if abused they are powerful. They reset you. Your neurons will have a blast.
absolutely. it's possible to support trump's right to free speech while mocking him for using that freedom to spout half-baked talking points and dodging even any slightly critical question he was asked
I disagree, He earned the title of President. All Presidents are referred to as President or at the very least "former President". Lex is showing his bias
I'm a Trump supporter, but I have to say I hate the deflection when he's asked about the 2020 election and what it means to independent voters. Lex: What can you say to the independent voters about the 2020 election? Trump: look, Kamala was the border car and now look at the criminals coming in Lex: ok, but what do you say to the independent voters about the claim of widespread fraud in 2020? Trump: We're experiencing inflation like we've never seen before If I had asked, I would say look here, bro. You've answered every question except the ones I'm asking Just my thoughts. I'm disappointed
Kamala could tick that box though, she will do the debate which is pre planned for her by CNN, and she has don’t a podcast with some loser cooking food and giggling about each ingredient like school girls.
usually Lex makes great _conversation_ , a look at and exploration of ideas. This was literally asking question, Trump saying whatever he wanted whether it answered the question or not, and then on to the next question. Worst interview I've seen Lex do.
it's the only reason people like barack obama, joe biden or potentially kamala harris ever get elected. people know nothing about their policy, they vote on personality only. i mean half the country voted for obama simply because they wanted to say they voted for the first black president, nothing more. obama was one of the worst presidents in history.
"It’s a crazy world when people are more focused on a Presidential candidate’s personality rather than policies and record." You speak truth. I was talking with a lady today who doesn't like Trump, but is voting for him because she is informed on Dem and GOP policy differences. I wouldn't care if Kamala was most beautiful charming person in the world. She is a marxist and globalist bent on using modern monetary theory policies and digital currency to enslave my children and grandchildren. I wouldn't care if Trump was a legit felon. Gotta be Liberal principles first
A situation where both presidential candidates would have to sit in a room like this for 3 hours talking and interrogating one another would be awesome. It would also show who could keep their composure and be able to respectfully speak with their rival.
I believe this would be very unifying over time.. they would quickly learn to be respectful of eachother so that that respect would be reciprocated.. The first few however would be a complete mess as they slowly learn how to maneuver such an exchange to make it work. But again great idea!
We need Kamala, JD Vance, and Tim Waltz. These are so constructive and are really targeting centrists. Which makes them so much more useful for real thoughts and ideas.
@@PresidentMobsterBonespursYou wanna go to war right now don't you? I'm not American, but maybe if more people had pretended to have had bone spurs, the US wouldn't have carpet bombed an entire country killing, burning and poisoning thousand and thousands of civilians literally ul until today.
@@Sunkid1 For me, it's not about the content, but the delivery. How someone conducts themselves and expresses themselves in a long form conversation speaks volumes about their reasoning abilities among other things.
11:06 he says he "lost by a whisker" and in the debate last night he said it was sarcasm. Sure didn't sound like sarcasm to me. Just lying about it as usual, that's all he does.
Thanks for the timestamp, was what I was looking for. Definitely said it oddly but didn't read it as sarcasm here. I get his point that he had millions more votes then what he was told was assured victory and still lost. One of those things where if he says it really was with sarcasm, I'd say I understand, and then he needs to stick with this claim.
I heard the sarcasm, it's in the word choice, what the heck is a wisker... saying that alongside stated cheating in many ways implying he did win the election. Because he did win. Period. Biden didn't even win their debate back then much less that joke of an election. If he was the man they believe he is he would have canceled the election due to covid and served the country a huge favor.
Zuckerberg already admitted Biden/Harris administration pressured him to censor the election under false pretenses. That’s called election interference..
Because he knew this, the only reasons, he said that the election was stolen, was so that his base would be energized throughout the Biden years and to keep himself relevant. Otherwise, they would have written him off and looked to someone else like DeSantis or Haley.
Well at this point he's been interviewed by everyone except Joe. So honestly i dont know if there's even a need for him to go on JRE except just to see how they interact. 🤷♂️
I really went in to this with an open mind hoping to find some common ground with Trump. But i can't stand the way every other answer has some implication of how smart and successful he is, or how bad and stupid everyone who thinks differently are. And he is so uninterested in the interviewer. Not a single "Thats an interesting question" or "I have never thought about that but.." which people with actual empathy says to keep the conversation going. He always improvise an answer that ends with a positive light on himself.
Trumps dementia on full display. The whole tirade he goes on at 13:50 is just deranged and Lex doesn't even challange him and goes back to topic like nothing happened lmao.
@@bullschitt3666 Yea, exactly. He had no chance coming into it but single handedly dismantled the 16(?) other candidates by ridiculing and making a joke out of them.
Kamala is very disabl. Disc her everyday. Kamala is evil and mean and she's going to take your rights away. YOU ARE going to be left with no food and no car. Do you have a car you won't be able to drive it. YOU WANT TO BE SCREWED VOTE FOR KAMALA
@@jebby16 as an American citizen with a civic duty to cast a vote in about 2 months I really would like to see the other candidate sit with Lex for an hour. Leave your emotions out of politics 💯
I'd love to see it, but it ain't gonna happen. I say this as someone who doesn't belong to either party: the Dems are going to limit any kind of media exposure for their candidate because they know how unlikable and inauthentic she comes off to the general public. There's a reason that she got about 4% of the primary votes in the primaries.
@@paulriccio5333 Sounds like you just couldnt follow what he is saying. Learning disability? Cant expect everyone to cater to that. You can expect it from mainstream media....theyll put it in dummy form, but you cant expect everyone to.
I always start off by saying to anyone that sits down for these types of interviews "thank you!" Regardless of whether I agree with you or not i always appreciate people with a lot to lose for doing these long form interviews. It's impossible to completely hide who you are during something like this. All political candidates should be willing to do this.
@@user-lq7rr4ns6z blud just survive an assasination attempt where the secret service fucking bungled their one job. I'd cancel all my public speechs and do podcasts too xD be real broski
@@user-lq7rr4ns6z Desperate or not afraid to speak to the PEOPLE who vote? He's actually reaching out to the people rather than hiding from them like Kamala. Kamala is so desperate that she has literally only campaigned on polices she took from Trump because they're the only polices she has that people would vote for.
Thank you Lex for a calm and respectful interview. You are not an imposter … I love your interviews because you get the facts without injecting personal opinions … thank you!!
19:30 I actually liked this. Lex let Trump finish his point about the border even though it wasn't part of the question, but immediately got back on topic. That's why long form discussions are important.
@@doobleu3117 He didn't dodge it. He said he's not focusing on the past, which is why he dodged it the first time. You can't really prove anything when the opposition controls the justice system and won't even entertain any cases, lol. There's been plenty of proof of voter fraud and other manipulation, just not enough for "widespread enough to effect the election."
He never got into the part about Trump telling Rep Lankford that he wouod " destroy" him if he has any proposal for tge birder, then threatened all GOPs not to approve a bipartisan bill becayse as ge saud " I need it for tge election" So Trump, once again, threw the entire country under the bus . Only for himself.
Candidates doing podcast interviews with others is so opening and refreshing. More of this, please! Gives a lot of insight and perspective for everyone involved.
Let me tell you, nobody knows more about talking like Trump than I do. Believe me, it’s tremendous. I could do this all day, folks, all day. And everyone’s saying, “Wow, how does he do it?” Well, it’s because I’ve got the best words. Nobody has better words.
I didn’t like Trump before this interview and I don’t like him now. HOWEVER, I listened to the entire interview and do not disagree with every point he makes. This type of format is important and I thank Trump and Lex for doing it.
I agree, as a right leaning moderate, there was a side of Trump I did like, and even now I still believe that he does make good points every now and then. However, Trump is also the guy who spread lies about the 2020 election that resulted in a riot and death. That's a red line for me, and it bothers me that so many still don't see it as a red line for them.
him calling previous presidents the "worst this country has ever had" is always so funny because he does this to every former or aspiring candidate, he did it with obama, he did it with joe and now hes doing it against Kamala, i bet if we have another new democrat in 4 years he'll call them the worst
Coming from Trump who literally sent pictures of his hands to a publisher who made fun of his small hands for YEARS is really funny TBH. Its one of Trumps biggest flaws...He lost millions over it just recently to E. Jean Carroll. Just couldnt stop himself from talking sh!t because he got so bent out of shape over it.
Nah he's slipping. He has his few solid topics and goes back to them every time. He's smart but slipping and you can see it in his dumbing down of vocabulary
It's smart really. He repeats himself with the same talking points we all know them by now, but it means you KNOW what he stands for and that's now baked into your voting decision. Immigration, no more wars, inflation is horrible etc
@@andrewespinoza2896 What he says doesn't even match what he does. He killed the border strengthening deal, he created inflation with the largest budget deficit ever and forced the government to borrow even more by lowering tax on superrich yet causing even more inflation. etc.
This is my first time watching. Thank you for the calm and intelligent interview. I like the way you ask direct questions without provocation. Chapeau! I'll certainly be back👍
Trump gets credit for going on these interviews and putting himself out there. Credit where credit is due. Lex is a master of letting him open up and talk and letting the audience be the judge.
Trump has done 35 or so interviews since he started running again, Kamala had one and had to have her vp there. Pretty telling on who is running on policy and what they believe and who’s running on hoping enough people hate the other candidate to win.
@asiandwanemeighan6479 what podcast were you watching...he did not have a plan on Ukraine nor a health care plan...he did his usual "I have a plan " then did his double talk and didn't answer the question.
To earn the right to sit in an office of public service you must answer to the people. That requires sitting down in these interviews, engaging in town halls, etc. If you cant do that you don't belong in public office
But to earn your right to sit in an office for public service, you have to be accountable for your actions! And if you start something like a coup d'état, which Trump did and the first people that took place in it, are slowly coming out of jail, but the initiatior (Trump) hasn´t even been prosecuted yet... That tells me, something in your country is absolutley wrong!
@@jay-by1seBuddy you can watch YOUR GUY sniff a TON of kids to the point that secret service literally intercepts and redirects him in the process. Go ahead and tell me I’m making it up.
Lex only punches down. When the guest is an outcast, Lex asks the hard questions and follows-up. When the guest is important, Lex asks softball questions and fails to follow-up. Lex is fantastic with intellectuals, but cowardly with politicians.
@@bluesky7288only pushback I saw, and he attempted twice ---was stop attacking with the communist label, all Trump said was, "these people are evil." Lex just responded with smiling and saying stuff to himself that we will never know and he will confide his real thoughts about the interview w closest friends only.
@@bluesky7288 of course, but the length of Lex's humbleness is miles longer than Trump's ego. I would've rather watched another interview about old school .php vs newer frameworks in coding than this. It was canned and Lex, although may have gone off script at times, kept it in line and I don't think it was out of respect. Alex won't worship nor be swayed right or left. He saw through the fear mongering template since it had no base in facts. Especially the overkill border issue jesus. Venezuela, 2 headed communist zombies at the border going after your women and children SAVE YOURSELVES BY VOTING FOR MEEEEE
He said he wants to focus on the future and then talked about a pressing issue. You gotta remember this is someone from the old press conference/ interview era. He is using this platform to hit his talking points and answering questions along the way as necessary. It's a strategy
As someone who has never really enjoyed the rally Trump, I really enjoy the calm long interviews that allow him to just talk. It's a sad world when one's hatred for a person is so strong they are absolutely incapable of seeing any good in a person
I watched the entire thing. He deflected from every tough question that was asked. I was all for making fun of Joe Bidend dementia but now I'm 100% convinced Trump is below average IQ. Dude is 90-95 at BEST.
Its a sad world when a politician ignores all questions and instead rambles about completely unrelated topics, and people like you thinks it's a good interview.
Would be even better if YT didn’t shadow ban the videos they don’t like. Views of this have drastically slowed after just 2 days, definitely not suspicious at all.
Please don’t diminish your impact on your audience. Your humility and genuine love for our world and people are palpable. Love your honesty! Keep it up Lex!
Yup, podcasts and streaming have destroyed the stranglehold broadcast TV stations and newspapers have had on political narratives. It makes it a lot harder for the gov sponsored media to hide or suppress ideas contrary to their narrative now. Which is why they are pushing so hard for internet censorship like net neutrality.
I remember just a few years ago when this guys was interviewing the inventor of C++ and other very niche people from the world of computer science now he is doing an interview with Donald Trump. That’s just blowing my mind
Really? Lex has interviewed some of the most influential people in every sector of the world for years. I am far less surprised to see Trump sitting down with Lex than that comedian dude a couple weeks ago. Lex is, and has been, the real deal for years.
The left calls him borderline slanderous terms like a fascist and ur angry cuz he thinks some of them are dorks. Its very convenient for your side the way you see things.
"The country seems more divided than ever. What can you do to alleviate that division?" Trumps answer, "Well you can get rid of these two people, they're terrible."
I will say I enjoy seeing a politician candidate that is willing to have these conversations. It does feel good to feel like some candidates are willing to meet their constituents half way. Just in the sense of having a conversation that’s not a soft ball interview & willing to have conversations outside of outdated cable news
This was a softball interview. If someone asks me if I killed a man and I rambled about what it means to kill a man then finish with "if I killed a man I'd have the largest crowd ever probably ever probably in existence", and the interviewer just moves on as if the question is answered, that's not a real question. Follow through on the question, press for a real answer, not a trained and comfortable ramble about literally nothing.
@@Takobella indeed but not fawning and totally synergistic chat like Fox. But shocking in context of what he thinks he is doing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
What conversation? It was the same narcissistic bs Trump has been saying for 9 years. He talks like a middle schooler. Same words used over and over and over.
Lex, I've been a fan of you since the very beginning. You've come so far, and I don't want to be presumptuous, but I think I can see what your mission is. You're bringing people together, in your own way. You are truly admirable and I hope you succeed.
Hi Lex. I just finished watching the interview with President Tump a day late. As the cameras got closer on your comments at the end, I noticed a small bump near your left eye. My husband had one and it ended up being Basil cells cancer. Please have that check.
@@FcknHassanNot really. Those other two guys are the reason for the division. Them and their state funded media that has been sowing division since Trump was elected in 2016.
I’m pretty sure his team prepped him to only give answers that his voters want to hear, it’s a bit sad he doesn’t have the backbone to strive for unity. His justification is fighting fire with fire, that to me is quite immature
I could see him pre arranging both on the same day and releasing both pods on the same day. Just objective tough questions for both then he can’t be labeled as MAGA…. But getting both to agree and knowing Joe will push back hard on bullshit and can’t be bought I doubt they both agree
@@leondosendepp585Thats true, what he does however do is givre some hint as to what people like more about Trump which can be policy (I dont agree with it but thats ok). Instead Trump keeps bashing the Democrats which turns off decent people and rightfully so. At his core Trump is not a nice guy, not a warm guy and also not honest. Some people are ok with that as long as they get enough money at the end of the month. I say it does matter. Just think if you had an uncle like that in your house. I would show him the door.
Trump will sit down with ANYONE on the planet. He doesn’t just pick CNN with his running mate acting as his support animal like some candidates. And don’t come for me saying “support animal”, apparently anyone can identify as anything today, right? 😂 I’m male, and still waiting for the “time of the month”. 🩸🧬
can someone, anyone from all the people praising lex and trump give me an example of a single question that got answered? Asking for a a single thing that lex pressed on or even followed up would be asking a too much but an actual answer to a question seems fair. Please.
Are you trolling? The guy stuck to his same old script, slurred his words and looked like he was falling asleep. How is this guy better than Biden. Age has caught up with your idol too.
He adapts. His speeches are off the cuff to engage, inform and entertain tens of thousands of people. And he is combative with mainstream media because they lie, are biased and unfair.
I'd ask him to not be so white glove softball on politicians though. We've all heard these same bs meandering answers from Trump. There's nothing new here, and without Lex having the guts to dig deeper and challenge bs answers the interview was a dud.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:09 - Psychology of winning and losing
3:51 - Politics is a dirty game
5:28 - Business vs politics
8:04 - War in Ukraine
9:53 - Kamala Harris interview on CNN
10:36 - Trump-Harris debate
13:33 - China
15:47 - 2020 election
24:03 - Project 2025
24:52 - Marijuana
27:13 - Joe Rogan
30:54 - Division
38:00 - Communism and fascism
41:36 - Power
43:36 - UFOs & JFK
44:16 - Jeffrey Epstein
45:55 - Mortality and religion
47:25 - Lex AMA
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Oh Lex, I remember when this used to be the Artificial Intelligence Podcast and it was cool as fuck...
Good job Lex!!
Say what you want about Trump, but these long-form interviews are how we should be hearing from every candidate.
Yea thats true. He's getting on better ones, he's trying to get on rogan so he's doing all these
Yea this really shows how he’s a big grifter and can’t answer questions straight.
Not sure how his PR team though this would be a good idea lol
Lol Trump won't debate Kamala. No president has ever done podcasts like this before, so it's hilarious that it's the new standard that a person just has to do in order to be worthy to be president. You suck up all Trump's lies though so it matters nothing to you that this is 1 hour of bullshit.
@@Wopedomerwe have a TDS member amongst us.
@@Wopedomerpeople like yourself really are a trip.
You hate the guy sure, look at the opposing choice. She does zero interviews outside the resent disgrace.
Talk about grifter, she changes her voice, positions, stances depending on the crowd.
Lifelong independent here who will never again vote Democrat within their current belief system.
You guys truly deserve to live under Harris, unfortunately you drag the rest of us down with you meaning we have no choice but to oppose.
It should be required for presidential candidates to do long form interviews.
Half of the country would hate this
Does 17 minutes count?
Having the two talk with each other for a few hours would be ideal.
The problem is that they know how to avoid answering anything real. This interview told us nothing new and lex didn't press him on anything and just allowed him to use the time to ramble. The ukraine question is a perfect example. We got no new info about anything. Why didn't lex press him at all? This man tried to use fake electors to overturn the election. Why didn't he get pressed on that?
Not if it's like this. This "interview" was an hour longer ramble, filled with all the same lies we have heard for years.
Lets see Kamala sit down for an unscripted hour with Lex now.
With or without her wine?? 😂😂
I mean if she doesn't have to actually answer questions like this what's the point?
Good luck with that.
Kamala is busy with packed houses for rallies. No offense, people are easily impressed if they think Trump rambling "Everything I do is the best, everything my enemies does is the worst" is a real conversation.
So she can avoid answering questions like Trump?
Lex has a great platform, he should push his interviewees a lot more.
Kinda seemed like Lex wasn't very prepared for this interview. Virtually every answer had some obvious lie and/misinformation in it, yet there were almost no push back or follow up questions. It's not so much an interview if you could swap out the interviewer with someone holding up que cards with questions written on them.
Nahh he definitely had to agree to some terms about no "hardballs" or pushback in order to get this to happen. At that point he should've just decided it's not worth it but he did it for the views instead. Pretty disappointing. If he grills someone like Sam Harris nothing happens, but if he did it with Trump firstly he would walk out on the interview and second the pro-Trump people would fucking go after Lex in one way or another.
Shane Gillis is getting DEEP into this role.
😂
You ain't fooling us anymore shane
😂👏
“Wow, what a great interview! I walked in and I said ‘Wo’w, what a great interview this is going to be!”
Get kamala to do a interview so we can have a laugh 😂
“Life is what you do while you’re waiting to die, so you might as well do a good job” that’s the deepest I’ve heard Trump ever talk.
37:22
iam a 14 yo and thats deep vibes
He sometimes surprises with some depth, it's true... hey, all humans are complex beings, right 🤣
Funny thing is.. it's not deep
That part stood out to me as well
“I came in and told the Taliban.. hey hey don’t do that and they didn’t” - Donald Trump
😂
He sent a picture of Abdul’s house to him… he’s talked about it in many previous interviews.
Usa created so I believe it
Because they knew what would happen.
@@elle1672exactly I was expecting him to tell that story cause it’s a favorite of mine. Just the way he says “oh why did you send me a photo of my house” impersonating the guy lol.
😂
Credit for Trump doing this, and for Lex's success - but honestly a little disappointed in what Lex got out of this opportunity.
I thought his questions were extremely thoughtful. He can't help it Trump circles back to his campaign talking points.
@@xUnnamedx44He can not let him prattle on about "TDS" twice wasting everyone's time and braincells. You just go "okay let's move on".
Lex breaking the internet today!
Theo did it first
Election integrity should be number one in what Trump discusses but in detail not just fan fare
i didn't expect trump to be boring... not him. or its just lex + trump =(
@@No5elfCTRL Nelk boys
or maybe i have watched too much shane lol
“The country seems more divided than ever. What can you do to help alleviate some of the division?”
“You can get rid of Biden and Harris. They’re terrible..”
They are
careful, you're gonna get your comment deleted
Trump is Right
They are divisive
True. They paint the other side as dictators and that causes division as well as get mentally ill people to try and assassinate them .
@@drizz1256are you actually not able to see how ridiculous of an answer that is to the question, regardless of how “terrible” the two are? Or are you trolling, because I genuinely cannot tell
As an independent I really appreciate this interview. I will be truly happy if we can stop the wars and be more peaceful
That's why it's so important to vote for him.
Calling this an "interview" is ridiculous. Lex was borderline sycophantic here
Even more important would be to dismantle the democrat media machine and the deep state.
You are being played
Trump destroyed the iran nucleat deal. He is not anti war
They laughed at Lex for always wearing a suit as though he was taking himself and podcasting too seriously. But the consistency of that professional integrity has created a platform, without the wild stigmas of the JRE, that make him a prime candidate to host the highest echelon of guests on the planet. Thus eclipsing his contemporaries. Congratulations Lex! You’re elevating the stratums of communication for our generation to where they ought to be!
Telling Trump all of Congress needs to get on mushrooms is crazy 🤣
That was the first time I've seen Trump lost for words!
Yeah, that is a waste of mushrooms, seems they are on something equivalent now
If Trump did them,he might say fk politics and go live on a beach for the rest of his life😂
Thank God he isn’t doin them tho👌🏼 WE need help!…
Amanita phalloides
Psychs just make narcissist even more narcissistic.
Screw traditional media. This is the format we all should be watching when trying to accurately judge presidential candidates.
no, there was 0 pushback. this is almost like a rally, what's the point of asking anything if this dumbass is going to answer something different?
Faxx
Trump is right "politics is a dirty game". I like rambling interviews, but he got clearly tired intellectually, nearly sleepy by the end. Perhaps Kamala is playing better dirty/shrewd politics? :)
Nothing was answered. Joke of an interview
@@funkdrunk Lets get her on the podcast and find out.
I've never heard SO much about SO little...
These podcasts are so much better than the regular interview because they ask questions that are so different than the mainstream media and that includes FOX
What are you talking about? Lex let trump ramble about nothing for every question.
questions are great.. answers were not to his questions though
YES! Podcasts are better, they can't weasel of the canned questions. No editing too... Show us it all, warts & all!
With Trump it doesn't matter the questions. You always get the same answers.
@@Bravo2zero0 If you listened he actually mentioned a lot of key points that voters care about
"the following is a conversation with Donald Trump on this Lex Fridman Podcast" Straight to the point-no introduction needed.
That’s all of them 😅
Boom. That’s it. Name. 😂
@@TheBarreraLifeStyle Actually no
Lex usually starts with a brief description of the person he's interviewing.
@@songoffools4319 it feels like you didn't watch any of them.
"Straight to the point" Lex rambles almost every time he opens his mouth. Loves the sound of his own voice.
Lex, you are an inspiration. Thanks for the effort you put into this channel and for doing your best to remain objective.
I’m a veteran and I regained myself again. PTSD is gone and my empathy came back after taking a few doses of mushrooms. They should be free for everyone. The world would be a beautiful place if we all took this mind healing medicine.
After so many likes I just want to let you know. I was straight edge prior to doing them until the age of 27. I did shrooms for the first time at 29. I was desperate. Traditional psychiatric meds weren’t cutting it. So I decided to try shrooms. They are not meant for the weak minded. They can be dangerous too. Just be in a positive state of mind when taking them in a positive setting. If your body is comfortable you’ll have a great experience. It heals. But it can be dangerous if abused they are powerful. They reset you. Your neurons will have a blast.
No they shouldn't. Some people aren't capable of using them properly.
Good on you Bud! ☘️
Assuming it'd work the same for everyone is dangerous.
@@vincepalaa those people needn't take them.
@@vincepalaawell many people aren't able to use alcohol or cannabis properly but it's still available
Free speech should be encouraged.
absolutely. it's possible to support trump's right to free speech while mocking him for using that freedom to spout half-baked talking points and dodging even any slightly critical question he was asked
@@Jeremy-Two You should tell Trump that, after all he's the one who wanted a tweet calling him a "pussy ass bitch" taken down lol what a fucking child
@@OhWellWhatTheHell1 he's not perfect but yes 100x better than Kamala
Not encouraged, #1 ammendment
@@OhWellWhatTheHell1bs!
Trump... "life is what you do while you wait to die, so you might as well do a great job" love that.
@@aaronnelsen5347 awesome role model mate 😂😂😂 🤡
Facts...
And steal, and cheat, and undermine
Why would such a seemingly smart guy have such a scumbag on his podcast?
You thought that was impressive?
Trump truly is a stupid man's idea of what a smart man is like.
Literally no introduction. Today we speak with Donald Trump
The man needs no introduction.
I really love that short intro. Well done Lex. It's hard to shut up when there is a whole bunch of things you want to say
Very true. He's the goat. @stevenmonteiro7677
I disagree, He earned the title of President. All Presidents are referred to as President or at the very least "former President". Lex is showing his bias
@@TSCinTXHow do you refer to President Obama?
That face Trump made when Lex said the world would be a better place if people in congress did mushrooms was fucking hilarious.
time stamp?
Just made Lex look like a loser. Trump is wise. Lex, not so much.
I’m a Trump supporter and I agree with Lex on this particular point. Sounds like you could probably benefit from a few caps yourself.
@@queen.cigarette 26:20
@Andrea-ek9cp "trump is wise" hahahah what?
I'm a Trump supporter, but I have to say I hate the deflection when he's asked about the 2020 election and what it means to independent voters.
Lex: What can you say to the independent voters about the 2020 election?
Trump: look, Kamala was the border car and now look at the criminals coming in
Lex: ok, but what do you say to the independent voters about the claim of widespread fraud in 2020?
Trump: We're experiencing inflation like we've never seen before
If I had asked, I would say look here, bro. You've answered every question except the ones I'm asking
Just my thoughts. I'm disappointed
Why are u supporting trump in the first place?
@@Lynn-iw2ds 😂😂😂😂
@@Lynn-iw2dsbecause he's leagues above the opposition
@@alskdjf-ol6bl in what way, the rate at which he's developing dementia ? What is he ahead in exactly that's positive
@@Lynn-iw2ds lol Biden has been demented for four years
At least 1 televised debate AND 1 streamed podcast with presidential candidates should be required.
Make it at least 3 streamed podcasts.
What difference would it make? They would just pick fan podcasts who give them softball questions.
Kamala could tick that box though, she will do the debate which is pre planned for her by CNN, and she has don’t a podcast with some loser cooking food and giggling about each ingredient like school girls.
so you want to have compelled speech in America???
Odd.
No way, we need 15 minute edit interviews. Also, Orangeman bad.
What I like about Lex Fridman, he’s respectful to everyone and lets everyone talk - he never makes it about himself.
how is that admirable? dude has no SPINE 🤡🤡🤡🤡
He’s afraid to hold people to account. Such a whimp.
He gives softball questions and plays both sides, disgrace to his huge platform IMO
Remember the program ELIZA? That's the AI that Lex turned into for follow-up questions.
usually Lex makes great _conversation_ , a look at and exploration of ideas. This was literally asking question, Trump saying whatever he wanted whether it answered the question or not, and then on to the next question. Worst interview I've seen Lex do.
It’s a crazy world when people are more focused on a Presidential candidate’s personality rather than policies and record.
it's the only reason people like barack obama, joe biden or potentially kamala harris ever get elected. people know nothing about their policy, they vote on personality only. i mean half the country voted for obama simply because they wanted to say they voted for the first black president, nothing more. obama was one of the worst presidents in history.
"It’s a crazy world when people are more focused on a Presidential candidate’s personality rather than policies and record."
You speak truth. I was talking with a lady today who doesn't like Trump, but is voting for him because she is informed on Dem and GOP policy differences. I wouldn't care if Kamala was most beautiful charming person in the world. She is a marxist and globalist bent on using modern monetary theory policies and digital currency to enslave my children and grandchildren. I wouldn't care if Trump was a legit felon. Gotta be Liberal principles first
@Neelinmact really good point kind of a surprise covid didn't really even come up much in this discussion.
@@Neelinmactwhat negligence of Donald Trumps cause 400,000 deaths? Can’t wait to hear this..
@@NeelinmactI've heard this case be made a million times. But nobody ever says what they would do differently.
I think you did a wonderful job. Thank you for doing this interview.
Lex asking Trump about psychedelics was actually hilarious 😂
lol you should see theo von's interview
Trump hasn’t even sniffed a psychedelic. He should though - it might help him deal with his daddy problems which make him such a c nt
"I'm not into drugs but I recently took ayahuasca..." 😂
Copying Theo
I laughed out loud as well
A situation where both presidential candidates would have to sit in a room like this for 3 hours talking and interrogating one another would be awesome. It would also show who could keep their composure and be able to respectfully speak with their rival.
That would be great, and very interesting to watch!
I believe this would be very unifying over time.. they would quickly learn to be respectful of eachother so that that respect would be reciprocated.. The first few however would be a complete mess as they slowly learn how to maneuver such an exchange to make it work. But again great idea!
Kamala? Give me a break. I’m a San Franciscan of 50 years. Harris is a total fraud. Trust me.
He didn’t answer a single question and did nothing but lie and babble incoherently lol
@Epoch11 it's our job as citizens to question the integrity of any president who makes decisions the way we live our lives.
We need Kamala, JD Vance, and Tim Waltz. These are so constructive and are really targeting centrists. Which makes them so much more useful for real thoughts and ideas.
Ain’t nothing “centrist” about Kamala or Walz….
What did this interview construct specifically?
The wars have to stop. 'People have to stop dying,' - President Donald J. Trump
"I hate wars and I love flowers" - Miss Universe
"Real man have bonespurs" - President Bonespurs
63 people died during Afghanistan withdrawal when Trump was still president.
@@PresidentMobsterBonespursYou wanna go to war right now don't you?
I'm not American, but maybe if more people had pretended to have had bone spurs, the US wouldn't have carpet bombed an entire country killing, burning and poisoning thousand and thousands of civilians literally ul until today.
He is a fraud he wants war you are so dumb for believing this bullshit this is a fake interview
This is 2024, time is changing, so interview/podcast should be a requirement to run for office.
Why? Did you learn something you didn't already know?
@@Sunkid1 For me, it's not about the content, but the delivery. How someone conducts themselves and expresses themselves in a long form conversation speaks volumes about their reasoning abilities among other things.
@@mbt9700 me too. Long form conversation exposes authenticity, or a lack thereof
Basic marketing now a days.
@mbt9700 so you noticed how repetitive he is and how he has the vocabulary of a high schooler.
Opening the interview with "Wouldn't it be better if Congress ate mushrooms?" is amazing LMFAO
Picking up the slack for Rogan
The maga cult people in office have!!!
😂
He saw the Theo Von interview 😂
He lost Trump's respect. It was a dumb question.
11:06 he says he "lost by a whisker" and in the debate last night he said it was sarcasm. Sure didn't sound like sarcasm to me. Just lying about it as usual, that's all he does.
Winning
Thanks for the timestamp, was what I was looking for. Definitely said it oddly but didn't read it as sarcasm here. I get his point that he had millions more votes then what he was told was assured victory and still lost. One of those things where if he says it really was with sarcasm, I'd say I understand, and then he needs to stick with this claim.
I heard the sarcasm, it's in the word choice, what the heck is a wisker... saying that alongside stated cheating in many ways implying he did win the election.
Because he did win. Period. Biden didn't even win their debate back then much less that joke of an election.
If he was the man they believe he is he would have canceled the election due to covid and served the country a huge favor.
First time I have heard Trump admit he lost -- "I lost by a whisker" lol
Zuckerberg already admitted Biden/Harris administration pressured him to censor the election under false pretenses. That’s called election interference..
Yeah, he lost by 44,000 votes in the swing state districts. That’s what tilited the election. Mail in votes are bs. He probably won.
They cheated in 2020 I don't care what anyone says...
16:25 it didn't last long
Because he knew this, the only reasons, he said that the election was stolen, was so that his base would be energized throughout the Biden years and to keep himself relevant.
Otherwise, they would have written him off and looked to someone else like DeSantis or Haley.
Thank you Lex for telling him to get on Joe Rogan!!!!
Joe is the one that turned down Trump. With all the recent podcasts he's interviewed with Trump would clearly say yes to Joe Rogan.
joe rogan said 'he doesnt want to give trump a platform and trump has asked many times'
Well at this point he's been interviewed by everyone except Joe. So honestly i dont know if there's even a need for him to go on JRE except just to see how they interact. 🤷♂️
That's more Joe dodging this. I think Joe should stop coping out and do it.
I think Joe is a greedy poser.
"He just goes to the beach and he thinks he looks good in a bathing suit, which he doesn't.. " lol
he's so petty, i can't
Facts
@@yeka6774the truth isn't petty just because you don't like it
With the body of Trump, one of the last things you should complain about is other people in bathing suits...
@@kileyqueen185 wdym biden looks good for his age, better than trump at least 🫣😁
I really went in to this with an open mind hoping to find some common ground with Trump. But i can't stand the way every other answer has some implication of how smart and successful he is, or how bad and stupid everyone who thinks differently are. And he is so uninterested in the interviewer. Not a single "Thats an interesting question" or "I have never thought about that but.." which people with actual empathy says to keep the conversation going. He always improvise an answer that ends with a positive light on himself.
Trumps dementia on full display. The whole tirade he goes on at 13:50 is just deranged and Lex doesn't even challange him and goes back to topic like nothing happened lmao.
Lex: you're at your best when you don't diss others
Trump: proceeds to diss others
Whether you like it or not, ridicule of stupidity is crucial and necessary.
His skill at dissing others is what got him elected the first time. Lex is wrong
@@bullschitt3666 Yea, exactly. He had no chance coming into it but single handedly dismantled the 16(?) other candidates by ridiculing and making a joke out of them.
Kamala is very disabl. Disc her everyday. Kamala is evil and mean and she's going to take your rights away. YOU ARE going to be left with no food and no car. Do you have a car you won't be able to drive it. YOU WANT TO BE SCREWED VOTE FOR KAMALA
he speaks hours about biden & kamala
BUT ! about epstein , just very shortly adn only very little words ...
he si involved in epstein scandal
Take care of our vets, they deserve better.
He thinks they're suckers and losers
@joshuataylor3550 WOW. You don't listen huh??😂😂😂
@@joshuataylor355026 people said ir bever happened.. but that 1 unnamed sources is all ya need. TDS FOOL
Yes definitely more than the 26 million illegals thatnever paid into our givernment.. only take
@sandraaudette8949 he literally said that about our vets and then spit on the medal of honor and John McCain’s service
I would pay to see Kamala sit with Lex for 1 hour
That's very masochistic of you.
@@jebby16 as an American citizen with a civic duty to cast a vote in about 2 months I really would like to see the other candidate sit with Lex for an hour. Leave your emotions out of politics 💯
@@jebby16 xD
I'd love to see it, but it ain't gonna happen.
I say this as someone who doesn't belong to either party: the Dems are going to limit any kind of media exposure for their candidate because they know how unlikable and inauthentic she comes off to the general public.
There's a reason that she got about 4% of the primary votes in the primaries.
I would pay to see harris on mushrooms...😅
A conversation of little depth, with a shallow man.
Would like to remind everyone that this is one take. No notes, no VP holding hands. I want JD Vance to go next.
And he sounded incoherent. He said nothing. He didn't have a single thought or perspective on a single topic.
@@paulriccio5333 Sounds like you just couldnt follow what he is saying. Learning disability? Cant expect everyone to cater to that. You can expect it from mainstream media....theyll put it in dummy form, but you cant expect everyone to.
@@paulriccio5333dawg you actually have a problem. Do you believe what you just said or are you trying to convince yourself?
@@paulriccio5333you are insane he answered all the questions really well you just can’t look at this interview outside of your political beliefs
And it was as softball an interview as it could be.. bad for L.F., he lost a huge amount of credibility here
Trump was right about the views. 1.5 mil views at 8hr mark!
1.6m now
Trump makes Nostradamus look like a palm reader.
Trump was right about EVERYTHING
Mine says 1.2 currently
@@channelurviews 1.7 now!!!
TRUMP 24
I always start off by saying to anyone that sits down for these types of interviews "thank you!" Regardless of whether I agree with you or not i always appreciate people with a lot to lose for doing these long form interviews. It's impossible to completely hide who you are during something like this. All political candidates should be willing to do this.
And what about convicted felon traitor rapists? Should we give them all a platform like this? Or just this one special snowflake traitor?
Just waiting on Kamala to do *anything* even remotely similar.
@@patrickbarrett1220 hell just froze over but where's Cackle Cummalot? 😂
Trump, clear choice
Kamala Harris is frightened to be interviewed by herself! She has nothing to say, has no ideas. IDGAF about her race and gender !!
Congrats lex on getting Trump!
@@SamsungSmartWasher like getting trump is hard lol. He was with aiden ross the other day, guy is desperate
Can u get Trump? @@user-lq7rr4ns6z
@@user-lq7rr4ns6zwasn't he with a UFC fighter too? Lol he's trying so hard to appeal to this base
@@user-lq7rr4ns6z blud just survive an assasination attempt where the secret service fucking bungled their one job. I'd cancel all my public speechs and do podcasts too xD be real broski
@@user-lq7rr4ns6z Desperate or not afraid to speak to the PEOPLE who vote? He's actually reaching out to the people rather than hiding from them like Kamala. Kamala is so desperate that she has literally only campaigned on polices she took from Trump because they're the only polices she has that people would vote for.
Thank you Lex for a calm and respectful interview. You are not an imposter … I love your interviews because you get the facts without injecting personal opinions … thank you!!
Amen!
19:30 I actually liked this. Lex let Trump finish his point about the border even though it wasn't part of the question, but immediately got back on topic. That's why long form discussions are important.
And then immediately dodging the question again lmao
@@doobleu3117LoL.. but yeah. At least Lex tried though 😅
Let him spew fake and unverifiable data about the border***
@@doobleu3117 He didn't dodge it. He said he's not focusing on the past, which is why he dodged it the first time. You can't really prove anything when the opposition controls the justice system and won't even entertain any cases, lol. There's been plenty of proof of voter fraud and other manipulation, just not enough for "widespread enough to effect the election."
He never got into the part about Trump telling Rep Lankford that he wouod " destroy" him if he has any proposal for tge birder, then threatened all GOPs not to approve a bipartisan bill becayse as ge saud " I need it for tge election" So Trump, once again, threw the entire country under the bus . Only for himself.
Thanks for quoting “If” by R Kipling. Phenomenal and powerful. We need these virtues back in the USA (and elsewhere) once again. Desperately.
❤that you concluded Trump pod w/ “If”.
Hearing you recite "If" had me tearful at the end. Well done, Lex
Long form interviews are the future--I absolutely love these conversations. Thank you for doing them. The world is a better place because of you, Lex!
Bro, what the hell are you talking about? People have been doing this for over a decade now dumb dumb.
Are the future? Its what they used to be until millenials and Zers screwed them up with their short attention span.
You realize long form isnt new right 😅
It was also the past!
I agree big x!
You are a great speaker and top interviewer in my book.
Candidates doing podcast interviews with others is so opening and refreshing. More of this, please! Gives a lot of insight and perspective for everyone involved.
Are you serious? Lex didn't ask a SINGLE followup Q and trump didn't answer a single question either!!
@@kohvazein7798kinda how like Harris couldn’t answer a single question in her CNN interview where she needed her hand held by her VP?
@@kohvazein7798Lex is and has always been a shit-tier interviewer
@@kohvazein7798 you didn't even watch it.
Really appreciate seeing long interviews in podcast form. Can't imagine Biden or Kamala doing this for even 20 minutes
Let me tell you, nobody knows more about talking like Trump than I do. Believe me, it’s tremendous. I could do this all day, folks, all day. And everyone’s saying, “Wow, how does he do it?” Well, it’s because I’ve got the best words. Nobody has better words.
would you prefer one who says everything they do is bad, wrong, incorrect ....? What kind of business man says " anything I do sucks " ?
@@_SHANE_no, we’d prefer honesty, humanity, etc.
I read this in Trumps voice I’m wheezing 😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
Now show us how Kamala and Biden talk
I didn’t like Trump before this interview and I don’t like him now. HOWEVER, I listened to the entire interview and do not disagree with every point he makes. This type of format is important and I thank Trump and Lex for doing it.
I suppose it is better to vote for someone who won't speak.
@@spellmadam2947 Underrated comment. (though we are assuming that this person is still voting for the other candidate which might not be true.)
I agree, as a right leaning moderate, there was a side of Trump I did like, and even now I still believe that he does make good points every now and then. However, Trump is also the guy who spread lies about the 2020 election that resulted in a riot and death. That's a red line for me, and it bothers me that so many still don't see it as a red line for them.
@@Moopapa7wasn’t lies. Zuckerberg is one who’s already confirmed interference. More to come out I’m sure
@@optionpitch5590 Which points did he make that you agree with? I felt like he rambled the whole time and hardly made any concrete points at all...
him calling previous presidents the "worst this country has ever had" is always so funny because he does this to every former or aspiring candidate, he did it with obama, he did it with joe and now hes doing it against Kamala, i bet if we have another new democrat in 4 years he'll call them the worst
Fuck the haters Lex. Trump said it best when YOU INTERVIEWED HIM. “You can’t care too much what people think about you.”
Coming from Trump who literally sent pictures of his hands to a publisher who made fun of his small hands for YEARS is really funny TBH. Its one of Trumps biggest flaws...He lost millions over it just recently to E. Jean Carroll. Just couldnt stop himself from talking sh!t because he got so bent out of shape over it.
I'd love to see j0e and kamala do this type of interview.
@@michaedove3562 Yeah, the dude is the most vain, thin-skinned person I've ever seen in politics. He can't let anything go.
@@ahambrahmas Aww how cute, two TDS sufferers found each other.
@@robmcguckin7605 TDS is just a lame deflection used by people who think Trump is perfect and hate to hear the slightest criticism
Did Lex Friedman just beat Joe Rogan to asking Trump about magic mushrooms in an interview? Priceless.
yes he did, I think we got more out of this interview, Rogan is great but he is no Lex, this was a nice calm quite interview
That is totally Joe's own fault.
I’m betting a joe played a big role in getting this interview for Lex.
@@buddymoore6504 Exactly. Lex doesn't make it all about himself.
Donald trump can you just answer the questions directly and stop talking
Nah he's slipping. He has his few solid topics and goes back to them every time. He's smart but slipping and you can see it in his dumbing down of vocabulary
It's funny how he says like 2 words with respect to the questions and then goes off and repeats the previous statements😂
Yeah, he REALLY sticks to his talking points. But then again so do all politicians really.
his brain is cooked
It's smart really. He repeats himself with the same talking points we all know them by now, but it means you KNOW what he stands for and that's now baked into your voting decision. Immigration, no more wars, inflation is horrible etc
@@andrewespinoza2896 What he says doesn't even match what he does. He killed the border strengthening deal, he created inflation with the largest budget deficit ever and forced the government to borrow even more by lowering tax on superrich yet causing even more inflation. etc.
Well he knows repetition is vital to get the message out.
Lex Friedman needs to do long form interviews with every politician/political figure
I wonder when Kamala and Tim will try to get on a long form podcast? (never)
That wasn’t an interview. No follow up questions. No exploration of ideas.
Trump did Trump. Same old gripes and zero ideas.
@@paulwhelan8567Zero ideas? You don't remember his first term? He's going to go back to that. Common sense economics. Get over your TDS.
Trump talked for an hour and didn't say anything. Same tropes, a little more subdued. Same lies
@@paulborowski591 he didn’t name a single policy. Can you?
This is my first time watching.
Thank you for the calm and intelligent interview.
I like the way you ask direct questions without provocation.
Chapeau!
I'll certainly be back👍
Cited in the debate Lex…nice
Trump gets credit for going on these interviews and putting himself out there. Credit where credit is due. Lex is a master of letting him open up and talk and letting the audience be the judge.
5 minutes 113 thumbs up. Holy shit the botting on these posts is fucking wild.
@@Silentaslife Here, take a dislike - sincerely, a bot.
Trump has done 35 or so interviews since he started running again, Kamala had one and had to have her vp there. Pretty telling on who is running on policy and what they believe and who’s running on hoping enough people hate the other candidate to win.
I love how trump gave us his plan on how to end the war in Ukraine 😂😂😂 he gave us so many details 😂😂😂 its just like how his health care plan 😂😂😂😂
@asiandwanemeighan6479 what podcast were you watching...he did not have a plan on Ukraine nor a health care plan...he did his usual "I have a plan " then did his double talk and didn't answer the question.
To earn the right to sit in an office of public service you must answer to the people. That requires sitting down in these interviews, engaging in town halls, etc. If you cant do that you don't belong in public office
but you have to be accountable to truth and facts in what your saying.
@@pada410Trump is jovial and embellishes stories. The left call him a liar!
The left flat out lies, but they just misspoke.
But to earn your right to sit in an office for public service, you have to be accountable for your actions! And if you start something like a coup d'état, which Trump did and the first people that took place in it, are slowly coming out of jail, but the initiatior (Trump) hasn´t even been prosecuted yet... That tells me, something in your country is absolutley wrong!
@@InvisibleFreak23Trump’s speech on Jan 6 doesn’t even meet the threshold of incitement of violence let alone a coup 😂. You people are delusional.
@@InvisibleFreak23 Narrative lover. Worthless narrative lover.
Lex: I think you're at your best when you're being positive and not criticizing the other side..."
Donald: "I think they're nasty..."
😂😂😂😂
🤣 Classic Trump.
maybe you’ll get lucky and they’ll lower the age of consent to nine?
@@jay-by1seBuddy you can watch YOUR GUY sniff a TON of kids to the point that secret service literally intercepts and redirects him in the process. Go ahead and tell me I’m making it up.
Trump , never misses a beat, absolutely Noone can tell him what to do , that's why he is loved ,
Lex only punches down. When the guest is an outcast, Lex asks the hard questions and follows-up. When the guest is important, Lex asks softball questions and fails to follow-up. Lex is fantastic with intellectuals, but cowardly with politicians.
very well said. I was disappointed he never pushed back on clearly verifiable lies...
That’s absolute bullshit,
“You can’t care too much cause you’ll end up choking”. This is an uncommon yet understated lesson for everyone.
Yeah I caught that too. It was a wise statement.
Why can't Americans spell 'choking'? It frustrates me to no end (surely English is your first language, right?)
@@johannesstephanusroos4969you seem offended… do I smell a Dem 👀👀😂
The education system is in shambles, America is rated on the bottom across countries
@@HanFace89 You might be smelling yourself, because I'm not even from the US
(Trump on Biden): "He's checked out. He just goes to the beach and thinks he looks good in a bathing suit, which he doesn't." I'm dead lol.
Dude had to be a stand up comic in another life, he’s funny af.
Let's see Drumpf in a bathing suit 🤣
While Trump just plays golf and thinks he’s good at it when he’s not lol
@@matthew7491 that was Trump’s policy talk.
@@jennyroth6583 We've all seen that video of Trump playing golf with professionals. He's definitely good at golf lol.
Trump within this interview, has an interestingly calm demeanor!
That's cause Les isnt challenging him on anything
@@bluesky7288only pushback I saw, and he attempted twice ---was stop attacking with the communist label, all Trump said was, "these people are evil." Lex just responded with smiling and saying stuff to himself that we will never know and he will confide his real thoughts about the interview w closest friends only.
@@ixxgxx Lex is so smart and it hurt to see him totally bend to Trump seeking more viewership.
@@bluesky7288 of course, but the length of Lex's humbleness is miles longer than Trump's ego. I would've rather watched another interview about old school .php vs newer frameworks in coding than this. It was canned and Lex, although may have gone off script at times, kept it in line and I don't think it was out of respect. Alex won't worship nor be swayed right or left. He saw through the fear mongering template since it had no base in facts. Especially the overkill border issue jesus. Venezuela, 2 headed communist zombies at the border going after your women and children SAVE YOURSELVES BY VOTING FOR MEEEEE
It would be great if we could get a list of the drugs trump is on in a given day.
Lex, you are not an imposter. You are amazing and empathetic. I love listening to your show, no matter who is on. Thank you!
Got asked about his opinion on widespread fraud in election and then just decided he wants to monologue about Afghanistan...what the?
And he barely got any push back about getting back on the question
Signals he's becoming a better politician. Look at the others.
He did the right thing - he wants to focus on future.
He said he wants to focus on the future and then talked about a pressing issue. You gotta remember this is someone from the old press conference/ interview era. He is using this platform to hit his talking points and answering questions along the way as necessary. It's a strategy
Compare Trump to the 80's. He's the same guy.
Was that when he was recorded laughing with Epstein?
How is this a good thing? lmao, imagine not changing at all for 40 years. That’s a stupid person
@@awtodor You must have a serious case of TDS where ur so triggered by the interview you’ve gone on a roll with spam comments 😂
@@awtodor No, when he interviewed with Oprah and with the View. Back when Hollywood liked him. His values actually have not changed…….
I have a copy of Playboy magazine that he did an interview….March 1990
I have missed that the comment "lost by a whisker" (at 11:04 and 15:47) was sarcastic. What else was sarcastic from this interview then? 🧩
As someone who has never really enjoyed the rally Trump, I really enjoy the calm long interviews that allow him to just talk.
It's a sad world when one's hatred for a person is so strong they are absolutely incapable of seeing any good in a person
I watched the entire thing. He deflected from every tough question that was asked. I was all for making fun of Joe Bidend dementia but now I'm 100% convinced Trump is below average IQ. Dude is 90-95 at BEST.
Its a sad world when a politician ignores all questions and instead rambles about completely unrelated topics, and people like you thinks it's a good interview.
@@Kryternbut enough about Kamala interviews
@@a.r.t.u.r.o. if you think that what he said doesn't apply to this interview then you must actually be deaf.
Would be even better if YT didn’t shadow ban the videos they don’t like. Views of this have drastically slowed after just 2 days, definitely not suspicious at all.
Please don’t diminish your impact on your audience.
Your humility and genuine love for our world and people are palpable.
Love your honesty! Keep it up Lex!
Trump has done more interviews then most presidential candidates, podcasts and personal conversations like this, are the way of the future.
It's literally the same access journalism ppl decried for years on cable news. It's not meant to inform or challenge
Except nothing of value was gained. Trump is doing the podcast tour now courting the same demographic that already aligns with his target audience.
Yup, podcasts and streaming have destroyed the stranglehold broadcast TV stations and newspapers have had on political narratives. It makes it a lot harder for the gov sponsored media to hide or suppress ideas contrary to their narrative now. Which is why they are pushing so hard for internet censorship like net neutrality.
That’s not true. People are seeing the true Trump, not the one the fake news portrays. Mean while Harris hides and hopes her communism wins
It gives him more opportunities to spread and reinforce his lies!
Thank you for letting us hear so many voices in these calm, judgement-free conversations. Your work is awesome.
I remember just a few years ago when this guys was interviewing the inventor of C++ and other very niche people from the world of computer science now he is doing an interview with Donald Trump. That’s just blowing my mind
Amazing. Been listening to him since 2019 also.
I still feel the magic is with scientists or Michael Malice not politicians.
Bjarne Stroustrup probably had more of an impact on the world than almost anyone alive. He's just not famous.
Really? Lex has interviewed some of the most influential people in every sector of the world for years. I am far less surprised to see Trump sitting down with Lex than that comedian dude a couple weeks ago. Lex is, and has been, the real deal for years.
This is like the 5th or 6th podcast trump has done this month
I dont think you are going to make it on lies anymore. Because justice matters, Donald.
Thank you for being brave enough to tell Trump politely not to stoop to namecalling - even if he didn't listen
This is what insecure children do.
The left calls him borderline slanderous terms like a fascist and ur angry cuz he thinks some of them are dorks. Its very convenient for your side the way you see things.
He is just requesting him to be an adult
Who f@king cares, what is someone going to die coz they got called a name? Buck up buttercup, no one cares if you’re offended.
Yeah cuz name calling is bad 👎🏼 😒 🙄 🤣
"The country seems more divided than ever. What can you do to alleviate that division?" Trumps answer, "Well you can get rid of these two people, they're terrible."
I mean, he's right. For starters atleast.
@@brednbudr2406😂🤡😂🤡
I think that’d help the world as a whole not just our country
Yes
He’s not wrong though…
I will say I enjoy seeing a politician candidate that is willing to have these conversations. It does feel good to feel like some candidates are willing to meet their constituents half way. Just in the sense of having a conversation that’s not a soft ball interview & willing to have conversations outside of outdated cable news
This is a prime example of a softball interview though
Not a softball lol. 😢😮
This was a softball interview. If someone asks me if I killed a man and I rambled about what it means to kill a man then finish with "if I killed a man I'd have the largest crowd ever probably ever probably in existence", and the interviewer just moves on as if the question is answered, that's not a real question. Follow through on the question, press for a real answer, not a trained and comfortable ramble about literally nothing.
@@Takobella indeed but not fawning and totally synergistic chat like Fox. But shocking in context of what he thinks he is doing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
What conversation? It was the same narcissistic bs Trump has been saying for 9 years. He talks like a middle schooler. Same words used over and over and over.
Lex, I've been a fan of you since the very beginning. You've come so far, and I don't want to be presumptuous, but I think I can see what your mission is. You're bringing people together, in your own way. You are truly admirable and I hope you succeed.
I didn't have Lex volunteering his own Ayahuasca use to Donald Trump on my 2024 Bingo Card
Ya I was a little taken back by that one lol.
damn i just made this joke to my friends
NPC comment
@@playerroku4412who you?
He should tho lol
We want Kamala interviewed!
Kamela doesn't want to take a single question from anyone on camera. 1-sided press has been taking care of her anyway.
Good luck on that one bud.
Maybe coax her with some wine 🍷 🤔 😏
Dude that would be so awkward, it would be like watching an hour long meme!
I wish i could see an debate between Trump & Kamala non scripted, no prompters, no paper on desk, no transparent panels, nothing...
@Strabun117 she's too cowardly, that will never happen. We just need to vote Trump and get past all this BS.
wasn't trump the one dodging a debate with her
@@holyskillet-pv4zk no lol he wants 3 debates total one from fox msnbc and cnn Kamala is only trying to have one debate
@@Strabun117 yeah trump would literally start pissing and shitting as soon as he's asked a question he can't ramble and evade
@@holyskillet-pv4zk he wanted three. Kamala refused two of them. So the only one they have set is Sept. 10th on CNN
You might as well have interviewed a toddler, maybe it would've given more substantive answers.
Hi Lex. I just finished watching the interview with President Tump a day late. As the cameras got closer on your comments at the end, I noticed a small bump near your left eye. My husband had one and it ended up being Basil cells cancer. Please have that check.
How do you stop the division?
"Fuck those two other guys"
😂😂😂😂
He didn’t even answer the question
@@vijays6911 worse even, gave an answer that contributes to the division.
@@FcknHassanNot really. Those other two guys are the reason for the division. Them and their state funded media that has been sowing division since Trump was elected in 2016.
@@FcknHassani dont want to "meet in the middle" anymore. You guys have an obsession with "Going along to get along." The left are degens.
I’m pretty sure his team prepped him to only give answers that his voters want to hear, it’s a bit sad he doesn’t have the backbone to strive for unity. His justification is fighting fire with fire, that to me is quite immature
Wow Lex interviewed Trump! Come on Joe Rogan! You need to make this happen!
Why does Joe need to interview him? Asking for a friend.
Jamie would quit.
@@davidchico9574 He doesn't. He said he won't. 😂 I trust him. (I don't)
I could see him pre arranging both on the same day and releasing both pods on the same day. Just objective tough questions for both then he can’t be labeled as MAGA…. But getting both to agree and knowing Joe will push back hard on bullshit and can’t be bought I doubt they both agree
@@derekcoaker6579Joe said he wouldn't interview Trump? Did he say why?
He is such a mean spirited person. Can’t understand why people don’t see this.
they are also cruel and enjoy inflicting pain on others.
7:20 - he’s low-key daring Mark Cuban to run lol
I wish he would. I would vote for him.
@@camilove318 Mark Cuban? He's an idiot.
@camilove318 LOL! Cuban sucks balls! He has some good business instincts but his judge of character is terrible!
LOL I was like he's definitely talking about Mark Cuban
I was wondering who he was talking about
This is typically Lex's style. He has a poker face and unemotional. That keeps his guests guessing without making them feel persecuted.
Well he also dosent challenge his guests if they say obvouis lies
@@leondosendepp585Thats true, what he does however do is givre some hint as to what people like more about Trump which can be policy (I dont agree with it but thats ok). Instead Trump keeps bashing the Democrats which turns off decent people and rightfully so. At his core Trump is not a nice guy, not a warm guy and also not honest. Some people are ok with that as long as they get enough money at the end of the month. I say it does matter. Just think if you had an uncle like that in your house. I would show him the door.
Autism W
Trump will sit down with ANYONE on the planet. He doesn’t just pick CNN with his running mate acting as his support animal like some candidates. And don’t come for me saying “support animal”, apparently anyone can identify as anything today, right? 😂 I’m male, and still waiting for the “time of the month”. 🩸🧬
@@leondosendepp585they might challenge grammar?
can someone, anyone from all the people praising lex and trump give me an example of a single question that got answered? Asking for a a single thing that lex pressed on or even followed up would be asking a too much but an actual answer to a question seems fair. Please.
Trump is more relaxed and focused on this interview than he is normally.
Only if this is your fisrt non-mainstream media interview you watched.
Are you trolling? The guy stuck to his same old script, slurred his words and looked like he was falling asleep. How is this guy better than Biden. Age has caught up with your idol too.
He adapts. His speeches are off the cuff to engage, inform and entertain tens of thousands of people.
And he is combative with mainstream media because they lie, are biased and unfair.
@@CadeCYCWaaaah waaah waaah
Relaxed? He sure was slurring an awful lot.
Best interviewer ever. Ever Ever. Lex. U are you so good at what you are doing. Thank you my friend ❤️🙏❤️
Lex you are the epitome of a good American, I hope you can continue to create conversation with people on both sides. Thanks for what you do
He didn't challenge him at all or refute any of the wrong claims Trump made repeatedly. Lex should at least present the facts to his audience.
@@mistym0rning he challenged him a bit, but trump side stepped. Better than the ZERO interviews kamala does
Most independent interviewer I've heard
I'd ask him to not be so white glove softball on politicians though. We've all heard these same bs meandering answers from Trump. There's nothing new here, and without Lex having the guts to dig deeper and challenge bs answers the interview was a dud.
@@mistym0rningexactly. This was a softball white glove treatment of epic proportions.