Former President Donald Trump blamed brain surgery for President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline, and not his age during a Friday night interview with Joe Rogan.
Trump and the famed podcaster sat down for a three-hour conversation about a variety of topics ranging from wind farms to the 2020 election. The podcast appearance actually made the former president late for a rally in Michigan.
At one point during the lengthy discussion, Trump, 78, defended Biden’s age – and, by proxy, his own – when he said being 81-year-old did not cause the sitting president to lose a step cognitively:
We have idiots that are negotiating for us. We have a guy that doesn’t make it past four o’clock, and it’s not because of age, you know? They are – so I know so many guys in their late eighties, and they’re better than – I said to one guy, “I think you’re smarter than you were 25 years …