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Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has confirmed that she will not be appearing on the popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast, despite initial discussions.
During a Thursday night appearance on MSNBC with host Chris Hayes, Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams claimed that the planned appearance, which had generated interest from both Harris’s supporters and Rogan’s extensive young male audience, was ultimately canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
After Hayes asked about the possibility, Sams responded: “I think that the vice president is happy to go anywhere and any place to talk to a broad segment of the country. We talked with Rogan and his team about the podcast. Unfortunately, it isn’t going to work out right now because of the scheduling of this period of the campaign.”
Sams also said that Harris had taken on other interviews, saying she was “happy to go into these places and share her message.”
“Donald Trump with Joe Rogan, that’s going to be an interesting thing to watch,” Sams quipped in closing.
So far, more than 33 million viewers have agreed, making the interview one of the biggest sensations of the current political cycle and a monster hit for Rogan.
During one segment of the interview, Trump told the host that on his first day in the White House, he asked to see the Lincoln bedroom and noticed that there was a “sadness” about it.
“I said to the guys, ‘I want to see the Lincoln Bedroom,’ I had never seen the Lincoln bedroom,” he said.
“And I was standing with my wife and I said, ‘Do you believe it? This is the Lincoln bedroom.’ I mean, it was cool– it was amazing,” the former president said.
“That room was so beautiful to me, much more beautiful than it actually is,” he said before speaking about Lincoln’s son Tad, who died four years after his dad was assassinated and whose picture is in the bedroom.
“He lost his son, and they suffered — the two of them — suffered from melancholia,” he said about the Civil War-era president and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. “They didn’t call it depression. They called it ‘melancholia.’”
“He was a very depressed guy, and she was a very depressed woman — more so than him, and on top of that, they lost their son, whose name was Tad,” Trump added.
“Just seeing it … a little tiny picture of Tad, who he lost, and it was devastating,” he said.
Tad’s death was reported as either caused by tuberculosis, pneumonia or congestive heart failure at the young age of 18.
The Lincolns had previously lost two other sons, Edward and William.
Their eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, lived until the age of 82 and served as United States Secretary of War under Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur. He also served as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom.
During the nearly three-hour podcast, Rogan also revealed why he decided to have the former president on his show, noting that he changed his mind after Trump was nearly killed during the first assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., on July 13.
Rogan said “No. Once they shot you I was like, ‘He’s gotta come in here.’”
Trump gave Rogan a glimpse of the scar he received from Crooks’ bullet. “It zicked right there,” Trump said of the mark behind his right ear.
Rogan responded, “It healed up pretty f–king good.”
“It’s not like some of the wrestlers, some of the UFC fighters… it was sort of like a top shot. The thing’s taken off a little bit,” Trump continued. “But it makes me a tougher guy.”
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