Joe Rogan issues warning to Donald Trump over controversial UFC fight at White House next year
The UFC fight is set to take place next year at the White House's South Lawn
Joe Rogan has issued a warning to President Donald Trump over a controversial UFC fight set to take place at the White House next year.
The podcaster and UFC announcer has questioned the president’s plans to host a cage fight at the White House in June next year.
With Trump’s permission, the fight is set to go ahead on the South Lawn but Rogan has voiced his concerns over the event.
In an episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, he said: “What kind of f***ing security are they going to have for this?”
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In response, his guest MMA fighter Brendan Allen said: “Gotta be insane. I can’t imagine, like you said, the security, the behind the scenes, how much stuff's really going to happen.”
Rogan continued: “A lot of weird pressure, too because it’s like all the security and the protocols, all that extra s*** in your mind before you have to go out there and fight.”
He went on to say: “Who knows what’s going to happen. I guess they’ll probably have to have some sort of a roof over it. But what if it’s like 98 degrees outside? DC gets hot. It gets hot in the summer.”
Last month, Rogan mocked Trump as he broke his silence on the Epstein files in a podcast episode.
Notably calling out the president’s turnaround on the files, Rogan said: “I heard there’s no files. I heard it’s a hoax. And then all of a sudden, he’s going to release the files. I thought there was no files. He wants an investigation now! Like, what is going on?”
Trump has faced continued flak for claiming the Epstein files are a 'hoax' perpetuated by the Democrats, with Jon Stewart claiming Fox News has been trying to distract from the issue. Still, as a growing number of his Republican allies have joined the cause, asking for everything to be made public, it feels like the president was left with no other choice.
Breaking his silence on the matter, a defiant Trump stated: “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.”
Elsewhere, Rogan confirmed that he once looked at buying Epstein's infamous Caribbean island. But it’s not the reported crimes that went down there putting Rogan off, with the podcast host explaining: “We looked at that island. We were trying to buy it. We were actually — I shouldn’t say we were trying to buy it, we were thinking about it very briefly... But it was too expensive. It was like 55 [million].”