Trump Cancels All His Events in Favor of One of the Worst People Ever

After backing out of several major interviews at the last minute, Donald Trump has one last major appearance on the horizon: The Joe Rogan Experience.

The Republican presidential nominee will be meeting with the former Fear Factor host on Friday, reported Politico. It’ll be the first time that Trump has appeared on Rogan’s podcast.

Over the last several months, Trump has made a concerted effort to reach young, male voters by signing up for a slew of interviews with podcasters, including Twitch ban-ee Adin Ross; the Lex Fridman Podcast; Six Feet Under, hosted by wrestler Mark Calaway (perhaps better known as The Undertaker); and Theo Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend.

Meanwhile, Trump has aggressively dodged more mainstream news appearances, including going so far as to break election tradition by refusing to sit for a 60 Minutes interview in September, which he reportedly backed out of last-minute over fears that the rigorous show would fact-check him.

Rogan shared an odd moment with Trump in August, when the podcasting behemoth appeared to side with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the MAGA leader before the independent presidential candidate bent the knee to Trump. Trump then chose to clap back, writing on Truth Social that he was looking forward to Rogan getting “booed” at a UFC tournament.

Following the first presidential debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris last month, Rogan gave the Democratic presidential nominee her flowers, commenting on air that whoever helped coach her had done a “fucking amazing job.”

“See, the difference in that debate was not a difference in, like, who’s gonna have better policies? Who’s gonna be better for the country?” Rogan told comedian Tom Segura at the time. “The … debate, in my opinion, was who was better prepared. She was way better prepared.”

Harris has also been in talks to sit down with Rogan for an interview, reported Reuters.

Donald Trump is a total flake.

Citing “changes in Trump’s schedule,” the Republican nominee canceled on his old friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Representative Tulsi Gabbard at the last minute on Tuesday. Trump was supposed to join the two for a virtual Make America Healthy Again town hall at 2 p.m., but abruptly canceled the event just hours before.

This is actually the second time that Trump has scrapped his plans with Kennedy, according to an email from RFK Jr.’s team, with the previous virtual event canceled allegedly due to Hurricane Milton.

Is Trump questioning his alliance with Kennedy, who pulled out of the race in August in support of Trump, or is the 78-year-old just feeling a bit sleepy?

Hours before ditching the virtual town hall, during a speech in Miami on Tuesday, Trump slammed Kamala Harris for taking a day off. “She’s sleeping right now, she couldn’t go on the trail,” he said, trying and failing to repurpose his “Sleepy Joe” content. “You’d think when you have 14 days left you wouldn’t be sleeping. She’s not doing anything today. I should take one of those.”

In reality, Harris is not taking a day off; she’s doing interviews with NBC and Telemundo in Washington, D.C.

Over the past week, it seems as though Trump has bitten off more than he can chew, with the former president now canceling several appearances, including a speech at an NRA convention and The Shade Room, giving the same vague “scheduling conflicts” excuse.

On Tuesday morning in Florida, Donald Trump complained again about the “enemy within,” expanding his definition as the crowd around him cheered.

Speaking at an event for the Latino community at his Doral golf club, the former president complained about Israel’s military plans to attack Iran being exposed, either from a leak or from a hack of the Department of Defense.

“Who did that? Can you imagine somebody doing that? That’s the enemy, I guess that maybe is the enemy from within, as I talk about. We have an enemy from within, they hate to talk about it. Could you imagine, could you imagine,” Trump said. The room then broke out into applause.

Over the past week, the former president has repeatedly used the phrase “enemy within” to describe his political opponents, specifically mentioning leading Democrats like Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. And his latest statement shows he has no intention of backing away from the violent rhetoric.

Trump’s former staff, including former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, say that his words are alarming and should not be dismissed. Trump’s comments are more worrying when taken with his recent pronouncement at a faith leaders’ event in North Carolina that only the people he likes should enjoy the right to free speech.

This means that, in the former president’s view, if someone is not on board with his extreme agenda, not only do they not have the right to protest, they are “the enemy within.” Since Trump now claims that “Make America Great Again” means taking the country back to 1798, while slavery was still legal and women couldn’t vote, most of the country would be his enemy.

Donald Trump appeared incredibly out of it during a campaign event with Hispanic voters in Doral, Florida, on Tuesday. 

Trump was joined onstage by U.S. Senator Rick Scott, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, and Doral Mayor Christi Farga—only he couldn’t seem to locate Farga, who was sitting just to his left. 

“Where’s Christi? Is she around? Christi? Christi?” Trump asked, looking wildly around for the woman seated next to him.  

“Right here,” Farga said gently. 

“Oh, Christi! Christi, ohhhh my Christi!” Trump said, sighing, as audience members laughed and whooped at his gaffe. Farga had also greeted Trump when he came onstage nearly 40 minutes after the opening speakers had concluded. 

As Trump spoke, he seemed to become untethered from reality, as he clumsily discussed energy policy, claiming that environmentalists actually hate solar energy.

“A solar field the other day that looked like it took up half the desert. I’d never saw anything like it. It’s all steel and glass and wires and … it looks like hell,” Trump said. “And you see rabbits, they get caught in it, and every—you know for the environmentalists, it’s just terrible.

“And what it does to your desert areas, or the areas that you’re putting it in, it’s just crazy,” he continued, adding that he thinks solar panels are OK if they’re on rooftops. 

Trump said he preferred “stuff right under the ground” such as natural gas. The former president has repeatedly said that if he’s elected, he hopes to expand natural gas mining, called hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking, in the United States to create energy independence, increase America’s energy exports, and boost the economy. 

Of course, that would involve cutting key regulations on liquefied natural gas, a highly volatile substance that when mishandled or stored can cause deadly explosions. Not to mention the dangers of fracking itself, which has resulted in reserves of potable groundwater becoming poisoned with chemicals, sometimes so severely that it can become flammable. 

Not only is Trump’s plan for energy independence dangerous, it’s literally a pipe dream. The former president claimed in a speech Monday that he achieved energy independence during his administration and that it was undone by President Joe Biden. That is completely false; the U.S. hasn’t been energy independent for more than 75 years. 

Kamala Harris, who once said she would ban fracking, has since walked back her position. Trump continues to insist that Harris opposes it. While neither candidate opposes fracking, the people actually living on the shale Trump intends to drill into, who remember when fracking first contaminated their water, sure do.  

Trump previously held a rally in Doral, Florida, in July, where he gave a rambling speech that ricocheted from the death penalty and crying mothers to crappy airports and complaints that no one eats bacon anymore. At the time, it was a terrifying, incoherent tirade. Three months later, it would be considered run of the mill for the Republican presidential nominee. Trump doesn’t get better; we all just seem to get used to it. 

Some of the country’s largest grassroots political donors are handing their money over to Republicans—but they don’t seem to be aware of it.

Hundreds of elderly dementia patients are fueling America’s campaign finance system, collectively shelling out millions of dollars to political candidates while they themselves struggle for cash, according to a CNN investigation published Tuesday.

Some patients, lured by the deceptively direct and aggressive automated messaging strategies utilized by political campaigns, felt that they were taking part in a network of political operatives and had a direct line to either Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris.

“President Trump NEVER does this! He personally tapped YOU to become a MAGA Living Legend!” read one message from the Trump campaign.

“The blunt truth: Kamala is BEHIND, and she’s COUNTING on us!” read a note from Harris’s team.

That presumed and false connection drove the dementia patients to tap into retirement savings in order to contribute six-figure sums to the candidate of their choice, CNN reported. Some even threw themselves into debt over the course of thousands of transactions to politicians they believed they were communicating with directly.

One Baltimore-area victim, an 83-year-old woman whom CNN described as wearing “pajamas with holes in them because she didn’t want to spend money on new ones,” didn’t know she had given Republicans more than $350,000 since 2020.

An 80-year-old communications engineer from Texas was another dementia patient who fell prey to the deception. In September 2022, the unnamed man donated $250 to Ron Johnson’s campaign for Senate over the platform WinRed. But as he was barraged with messages over the next year and a half, the Lone Star senior—who for years had thrifted his clothes and driven an old car in order to save for his retirement—unknowingly made more than 15,000 transactions, amounting to more than $440,000 in donations.

CNN noted that the man’s son had spent weeks trying to “help him get the money back” from WinRed but was only able to secure refunds for a third of his father’s political contributions.

Data from the Federal Trade Commission revealed that WinRed had nearly seven times as many FTC complaints as its Democratic competitor, ActBlue. Trump was the single largest beneficiary of the donations.

The majority of victims identified by CNN were in their eighties and nineties and included veterans, house cleaners, nursing home residents, and widows living alone. Some of the donors had coughed up more cash to politicians than they had paid for their homes.