'The Country Was Thriving': Joe Rogan Says That 'More Things Were Getting Done' When Donald Trump Was President — Unemployment Was Down, Regulations Relaxed. Is He Right?

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Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have garnered their share of staunch supporters and vocal critics. But economically, which president has done better for America?

Podcaster Joe Rogan believes the answer is clear: Trump.

"It looked like [Trump's] policies were actually effective, and it looked like unemployment was down, business was building, regulations were being relaxed, more things were getting done," Rogan said during a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast.

Rogan also commented on the ongoing Trump investigations.

"Now you have the intelligence agencies colluding to keep a guy from being president that was president during a time where the country was thriving economically," he said.

 

When the episode's guest Patrick Bet-David asked Rogan whether Trump would get his vote, Rogan replied, "He'd get my vote before Biden."

"I never thought that Biden was going to make it — I never thought that he was going to be functional," he added.

Take a closer look at the performance of both leaders in the realms of unemployment and regulations.

Unemployment

When Trump took office in January 2017, the unemployment rate was 4.7%, continuing a downward trend that started after the 2007-2009 recession.

By September 2019, the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.5%, the lowest rate since December 1969.

But the landscape dramatically shifted in early 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of lockdowns and reduced economic activity, the unemployment rate in the U.S. surged to 14.7% in April 2020.

Following this peak, the latter part of 2020 saw a gradual decrease in unemployment as the economy started to reopen.

By the time Biden began his term in January 2021, America's economic recovery was well underway, and the unemployment rate had come down to 6.3%.

 

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[ozimoron]

Only for a while and only because of the gift of a good economy left to him by Obama.

[2baht]

Oh <deleted> Joe, the man's a moron, did you consume disinfectant and somehow take fluorescent light internally, spare us Joe, he's an idiot BS'er consumed with his own importance! Bathrooms full of classified documents, an insurrection on Capital Hill, the fool is dangerous!

 

 

[ozimoron]

Who gets their information from podcasters and why?

[ozimoron]

What Trump was mostly getting done as President was fraud.

 

In one example, Amer noted how Trump repeatedly valued his South Florida oceanside estate of Mar-a-Lago at 28 times more than the official Palm Beach County government property appraiser. A chart displayed in the courtroom showed how the former president’s winter home was valued by the county in 2018 at $25 million—while the real estate mogul set the value at $714 million.

In another example, the AG’s office pointed out how the Trumps’ simply slapped on a 30% “brand premium” at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. They also raised the theoretical purchase price of that business enterprise by tacking on $41 million in club memberships—even though those signups are reimbursable and under certain circumstances would have to be paid back.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tries-to-strike-down-new-york-ag-case-before-it-starts

[sirineou]

I often lose sleep over what Joe Rogan thinks.

[ozimoron]

9 minutes ago, sirineou said:

I often lose sleep over what Joe Rogan thinks.

Joe Who?

[Tug]

4 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Joe Who?

Joe rogain you know rogain for treating baldness ????actually he’s a right wing wing nut 

[ozimoron]

Just now, Tug said:

Joe rogain you know rogain for treating baldness ????actually he’s a right wing wing nut 

I can honestly say I have never watched him on YT or anywhere else.

[nauseus]

3 hours ago, ozimoron said:

What Trump was mostly getting done as President was fraud.

 

In one example, Amer noted how Trump repeatedly valued his South Florida oceanside estate of Mar-a-Lago at 28 times more than the official Palm Beach County government property appraiser. A chart displayed in the courtroom showed how the former president’s winter home was valued by the county in 2018 at $25 million—while the real estate mogul set the value at $714 million.

In another example, the AG’s office pointed out how the Trumps’ simply slapped on a 30% “brand premium” at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. They also raised the theoretical purchase price of that business enterprise by tacking on $41 million in club memberships—even though those signups are reimbursable and under certain circumstances would have to be paid back.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tries-to-strike-down-new-york-ag-case-before-it-starts

Oceanfront, Palm Beach. 20 acres, $25 million. Yeah right! ????

[Chomper Higgot]

The country was indeed thriving.

 

Them Trump came along and wrecked it.

 

 

[2baht]

Joe, did I mention $130,000 hush money for Stormy Daniels? Oh, the man is a fool!

[ujayujay]

Who's to heck is Joe Rogan

[ozimoron]

34 minutes ago, nauseus said:

Oceanfront, Palm Beach. 20 acres, $25 million. Yeah right! ????

714? Even a tenth of that sound right to you?

[nauseus]

33 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

714? Even a tenth of that sound right to you?

Even sounds right to  Letitia James (75m), Newsweek (170m), Forbes (350m) and others even  more. But 25m? No way.

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, nauseus said:

Even sounds right to  Letitia James (75m), Newsweek (170m), Forbes (350m) and others even  more. But 25m? No way.

The claim was 714. Is that not patently fraudulent? The county being wrong doesn't make it not fraud.

Edited September 23, 2023 by ozimoron

[nauseus]

2 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

The claim was 714. Is that not patently fraudulent? The county being wrong doesn't make it not fraud.

Nobody seems to be able to agree on the correct valuation.

 

I answered your question and these double negatives don't help.. 

[ozimoron]

Just now, nauseus said:

Nobody seems to be able to agree on the correct valuation.

 

I answered your question and these double negatives don't help.. 

The charge was that Trump over valued his property, not that the country undervalued it. Do you consider there to be some chance that Trump's valuation was reasonable?

[nauseus]

26 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

The charge was that Trump over valued his property, not that the country undervalued it. Do you consider there to be some chance that Trump's valuation was reasonable?

I can't answer that but from the numbers I gave you before it seems too high.

 

But 25m? not a chance. 

[ozimoron]

Just now, nauseus said:

I can't answer that but from the numbers I gave you before it seems too high.

 

But 25m? not a chance. 

I don't disagree but that number will be irrelevant to the outcome of the case, right? And it was likely genuinely the county valuation so lots of rich peeple got the same low valuation. It's not the only piece of evidence. Even the realistic valuations don't approach what Trump claimed.

[underbob]

Trump was the worst fascist Russian asset con man grifter lying thief of a president in USA's history. He told his family and friends that Hitler had the best strategies which he completely adopted

1) discredit the media &

2) get everyone angry at each other and then you can control half the population.

 

If he managed to steal the 2024 election because all 3 branches of government were kissing his Mafia Don ring, then 4 years later, Putin's $multi-million payment to Cambridge analytica, so his favorite money launderer Donald could win would probably would see the end of NATO & Trump incarcerating brown people and possibly handing them over to his klu Klux Klan and white power army to murder. They probably would not have used ovens for the optics.

Edited September 23, 2023 by underbob

[digger70]

Good onya Joe,   There's Many DT haters and there's Many JB haters , Here on this Forum they're Mostly DT haters . Not that it matters .

I would vote for DT if I was an American the country would be much better then with JB.

[Skeptic7]

Who gives a ???? what Joe Blow says❓

[Chomper Higgot]

2 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Who gives a ???? what Joe Blow says❓

The whole of MAGA

[impulse]

Let's see... 

 

Filling the car was relatively affordable, the border was secure, Russia was behaving, I could afford the nicer cuts of beef, the strategic petroleum reserve was pretty full, and.. and...

 

But there were mean tweets...

 

 

[JonnyF]

Rogan is bang on the money again. For all his faults Trump made things better for the average American.

 

History will not be kind to the lying child sniffer and his crack head gun toting son (I have multiple links to back up that comment if required),

[Hanaguma]

7 hours ago, ujayujay said:

Who's to heck is Joe Rogan

Only the guy with possibly the most downloaded podcast in America, with 15 million subscribers and 3 BILLION views on Youtube.

 

A hard to pin down guy in standard political terms. Leans libertarian, suppports drug legalization, endorsed Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 election, a 2nd Amendment guy who also is in favor of universal health care.   

 

Also not afraid to talk to anyone on his show, a quality that more journalists should emulate.

[Taco]

Trumps main success would be through his lies and deception he succeeded in tearing the country mentally in half and created  millions of angry trumpers that don’t even consider science or reason.  Reaching across the aisle to come to an agreement is over.  Don’t forget the yahoos he put in his cabinet that were the antithesis of their powerful positions, for instance pro fossil fuel lawyer Scott Pruitt. 
 

Biden is old and doesn’t give the most energizing speeches but he has passed the inflation bill, chips bill to combat China giving the US a softer landing then Europe on the inflation front. Most importantly things are calm, reasonable and fairly normal.  
 

The government will probably not get funded end of month and shut down, and from who? The far right trumper Republicans in the house. Chaos is their playbook.  No Chance I would even consider giving my vote to a fraudster like Trump and thanks to him, the Republican Party is like a badly damaged ship lost in space. 
 

 

[MonteD]

12 hours ago, Tug said:

Joe rogain you know rogain for treating baldness ????actually he’s a right wing wing nut 

OK, now I know you definitely have your head buried in the sand, or another dark place.. JRE is far from being right wing.

[quake]

Come on Sir Donald.