Podcaster Joe Rogan supplied some shock criticism of the Trump administration over the weekend, describing the opportunity of harmless individuals getting swept up in mass deportations as “horrific.”
On Saturday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan praised President Donald Trump for cracking down on immigration from “crime-infested parts of the world” on the U.S. southern border whereas in dialog with British podcasters Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin.
Nonetheless, he expressed concern that non-criminals is also focused, noting: “The thing is, you’ve got to get scared that people who are not criminals are getting like lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons, like that kind of shit.”
Rogan then alluded to the case of Andry José Hernández Romero, a homosexual Venezuelan man who labored as a make-up artist and hairdresser, and located asylum within the U.S. after fleeing his homeland the place he was persecuted due to his sexuality and political opinions.
Final month, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a not often used wartime legislation, to focus on alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua for deportation.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Hernández Romero had been “deported without any notice to him or his attorney” to a jail in El Salvador as a result of he has a pair of crown tattoos ― thought by officers to be proof of his ties to Tren de Aragua ― on his arms.
Hernández Romero, 31, has repeatedly denied any affiliation with Tren de Aragua.
“That’s horrific,” Rogan mentioned of the case. “That’s bad for the cause. Like, the cause is, ‘Let’s get the gang members out.’ Everybody agrees. But let’s not [let] innocent gay hairdressers get lumped up with the gangs.”
Later within the chat, Rogan ― an outspoken supporter of Trump who was extensively thought of essential to the president’s victory within the 2024 election ― additionally took a jab on the administration’s method to total politics, which he described as: “Never admit your fault. Never admit you’re wrong.”
“This is the thing we’re seeing with the Signal thing, and this is the thing we’re seeing with this,” he mentioned. “I would assume someone’s alerted them to the fact that they might have rounded up this just random hairdresser and accused him of being a gang member. … Does the prison know now? Can they talk to that guy? Can they pull him out of there?”
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Hearken to Saturday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” right here. Rogan’s remarks on the Trump administration’s deportations might be discovered on the 2:31:16 mark.
