Joe Rogan launches fresh attack on Trump over issue he warns will sour GOP voters on the president
Rogan, 58, claimed Wednesday that the president was alienating his base by targeting immigrants whose only crime was crossing the southern border illegally.
Rogan tore into the concept, weeks after slamming ICE raids that have been targeting migrant laborers showing up to Home Depot parking lots where they'll often be able to find contractors who'll offer them a day's work.
He told Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna this time around: 'The idea of people just showing up and pulling people out of schools and pulling people out of Home Depot... that were just hardworking people that maybe snuck over here because they didn't have a legal way to get over here... that's what freaks people out.
'Because when people thought about ICE, they thought, "Great, we're going to get rid of the gang members,"' Rogan continued. 'They didn't think, "Great, you're going to get rid of the landscaper."'
Rogan, a former Bernie Sanders supporting progressive who now says he's libertarian, later said he understands why some people illegally emigrate from other countries.
'If you're just a landscaper, you're just a guy who lives in a Third World country and you want a better life, and you say, "I heard you can get across, and I heard when you get across, you can get work' — like, what is that guy going to do?"' he asked.
Rogan tore into the concept of targeting laborers at places like Home Depot, weeks after slamming ICE for targeting illegals at their places of work during an episode in July
'That guy doesn't have the money to hire a lawyer,' Rogan continued.
'How is he gonna prove that he is more valuable than a United States citizen that's already here doing the exact same job?'
The comic clarified he's happy with increased security at the Southern Border, since it aims to prevent cartel members and other criminals from entering.
But top White House aide Stephen Miller's strategy of targeting laborers at businesses like Home Depot is as step too far, he said.
Miller gave such an order to ICE agents as early as May, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Rogan reluctantly endorsed Trump towards the end of last year, after hosting him on his podcast.
He has turned on the Republican in recent months, even floating Joe Biden's son Hunter as a potential presidential candidate during an episode in late July.
Most of the criticism stems from Trump's immigration approach and the president's recent dismissals of the 'Epstein files', after months of campaigning for their release and increased government transparency.
'Shout out to all the people that still don't believe in conspiracies,' Rogan wrote on his X account in July after the DOJ released findings stating that Epstein never even kept a 'client list' while stating he killed himself in jail.
'Your ability to stick to your guns is inspiring.'
Trump faced heat last month after the Wall Street Journal accused him of sending pedophile Epstein a 'bawdy' 50th birthday drawing.
The president denied doing so and has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the paper.
Rogan first called the administration's deportations 'horrific' during an episode in March,
That same month, he said he holds 'more left wing positions than right wing' ones.
The former Fear Factor host has also panned the president's deportation policies as 'insane.'
Dozens of day laborers continue to be arrested outside various stores in or around LA, New York City, and Baltimore. Protests have propped up in response.
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