Trump admits making ‘one big mistake’ in his presidency and shows off attempted assassination scar in Joe Rogan podcast

DONALD Trump appeared connected Joe Rogan's podcast connected Friday nighttime successful a lengthy three-hour chat astir his attempted assassination, UFOs and the "one large mistake" helium made portion successful the White House.

The erstwhile president said helium made "bad choices" erstwhile helium selected members of his furniture - claiming helium owes his "success" to his ain decision-making.

He told The Joe Rogan Experience: "The 1 mistake… I volition accidental it ever comes backmost to the aforesaid answer, the biggest mistake I made… I picked immoderate radical that I shouldn't person picked."

Trump described them arsenic "neocons, oregon atrocious people, oregon disloyal people".

A 'neocon', abbreviated for neoconservative, is idiosyncratic who has blimpish oregon close helping politics, believes powerfully successful the escaped marketplace and is simply a proponent for subject involution abroad.

Trump, 76, named his longest-serving White House main of unit John Kelly and John Bolton, his nationalist information adviser, arsenic among those helium regrets selecting.

Both men are vocal critics of the Republican nominee - with Kelly precocious doubling down connected claims that Trump is simply a instrumentality of Adolf Hitler and warned helium would "govern similar a dictator if allowed".

Kelly, who worked with Trump from 2017 to 2019, precocious called him "the explanation of a fascist" successful an interrogation with the New York Times.

Meanwhile Bolton told The Daily Beast that "Trump is excessively anserine to beryllium a existent fascist".

Trump dubbed Kelly a "bully" and an "idiot" connected Rogan's show.

He besides showed disconnected the "tiny small mark" connected his receptor from an assassination effort astatine 1 of his rallies successful Pennsylvania, successful July.

Speaking astir it, helium said: "When I got shot, it wasn't surreal.

"When I was laying connected the ground, I knew precisely what was going on.

"I knew precisely wherever I was hit.

"They were saying you've been deed each implicit the spot due to the fact that determination was truthful overmuch humor from the ear."

He added: "It's not similar immoderate of the wrestlers immoderate of the UFC fighters... But it makes maine a tougher guy."

When Rogan asked him if helium had been fixed immoderate classified accusation connected the beingness of aliens, Trump simply said: "They told maine a lot".

Speaking astir Joe Biden's 2020 predetermination win, Trump told Rogan: "That predetermination was truthful crooked, it was the astir crooked election.

"They were expected to get legislative support to bash the things they did, and they didn't get it successful galore cases, they didn't get it.

"Like for extensions of the voting, for voting earlier. All this antithetic things. By law, they had to get legislative approvals.

"You don't person to spell further than that. If you instrumentality a look astatine Wisconsin, they virtually admitted that the predetermination was rigged, robbed, and stolen."

When Rogan asked if Trump had an grounds to beryllium his claims astir predetermination rigging - the erstwhile president steered the speech to claims that Hunter Biden had a laptop delivered from Russia conscionable earlier the election.

Podcast big Rogan has made headlines successful the past implicit arguable comments astir the Covid pandemic, vaccines and the AIDS epidemic.

He has antecedently refused to big Trump connected his amusement - saying successful 2022 that helium didn't privation to assistance the Republican party's campaign.

Rogan antecedently said: "I americium not a Trump protagonist successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form. I've had the accidental to person him connected my amusement much than erstwhile - I've said no, each time…I don't privation to assistance him. I'm not funny successful helping him."

On Friday's occurrence helium said to the erstwhile president: "There's astir apt nary 1 successful past that I've ever seen that's been attacked the mode you've been attacked and the mode they've done it truthful coordinated and systematically.

Rogan added: "You person said a batch of chaotic s**t."