Donald Trump
guest·19 claims·1 episode·updated Jul 10, 2026
19 fact-checked claims across 1 episode on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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Joe Rogan Experience #2219: Donald Trump, fact-checked
19 claims by Donald Trump·aired Oct 1, 2024
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- JRE #2219▶ 47:28
“So I took it from almost 40% down to 21%. Now I'm bringing it from 21 down to 15, but only if you make your product in the United States, which is great. Peopl…”
Trump claims that cutting the corporate tax rate from ~40% (35% statutory plus state) to 21% increased federal revenue in the first year compared to before.
- JRE #2219▶ 16:03
“So in the office of the presidency over the years, all those presidents you've had, 92% were politicians and 8% were generals. General Eisenhower, General Wash…”
Trump claims that across U.S. history, 92% of presidents were politicians and 8% were generals, citing Eisenhower and Washington as the generals.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:33:42
“You know, Jimmy Carter was in charge of a commission, you know, that many years ago and they put him and Scoop Jackson and various senators, you know, distingu…”
Trump claims a Jimmy Carter-led bipartisan commission's primary finding was that mail-in ballots cannot be used.
- JRE #2219▶ 1:28:45
“Eighteen months later, there wasn't one soldier that was ever shot at. And even Biden admitted it in a moment of stupidity, because he shouldn't admit it. His …”
Trump claims that after his direct negotiation with the Taliban's Abdul Ghani Baradar, no U.S. soldier was shot at or killed in Afghanistan for the final 18 months of his presidency.
- JRE #2219▶ 1:25:10
“The day I left, they flew 28 bombers over the middle of. Of Taiwan. 28 bombers. And it's the apple of his eye.”
Trump claims that on the day he left office, China flew 28 bombers over the middle of Taiwan.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:32:38
“You know the amazing thing with the machines? So we have the machines, they cost 10 times more. A paper ballot would cost 8%. And they make paper ballots, they…”
Trump claims electronic voting machines cost ten times more than paper ballots, which he says cost only 8% as much.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:30:31
“$200 billion. And that's a way low number. That's a way low. You know, it's interesting. New York has always been like, you know, sort of like always looking f…”
Trump claims the federal government has spent roughly $200 billion nationally (with New York alone spending $100 billion) on services and benefits for migrants.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:29:20
“I don't understand why, okay, you have a wall or you have a. You know, I built 570 miles of wall. Everyone said I built a lot of wall.”
Trump claims he built 570 miles of border wall during his presidency.
- JRE #2219▶ 57:02
“And then they approve 58 coal plants for the next, you know, every. They build a coal plant a week.”
Trump claims China approved 58 new coal plants and builds a coal plant every week.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:53:06
“I said, emmanuel, if you do that, I'm going to put 100% tariff when your wines and champagnes are coming to the United States, and you're going to regret that …”
Trump claims he personally called French President Macron and got France's digital services tax dropped within about two minutes by threatening a 100% tariff on wine and champagne.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:50:33
“China's way behind us, but they'll catch us within five years.”
Trump claims China is far behind the U.S. in nuclear weapons capability but will catch up within five years.
- JRE #2219▶ 46:14
“Not one person. They spent $42 billion. They could have gotten Starlinks to everybody.”
Trump claims a federal broadband program spent $42 billion and connected zero people.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:28:04
“Well, McDonald's has no information. No, she has no information. There's nobody. The manager said she never worked there.”
Trump claims McDonald's has no record of Kamala Harris ever working there and that a manager said she never worked there.
- JRE #2219▶ 1:40:08
“When other countries are allowed to empty their prisons into our country with murderers, we had 13,099 murderers dropped in our country over the last three yea…”
Trump claims 13,099 murderers were released into the United States by other countries emptying their prisons over the prior three years.
- JRE #2219▶ 26:21
“I'm for having countries pay us billions and billions and trillions, even dollars. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. Nobody took in 10 cent…”
Trump claims he personally took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China via tariffs, something no other president ever did.
- JRE #2219▶ 46:27
“How about this? They built the charger stations right in the Midwest. Midwest. They built eight of them. They cost $9 billion. That's like a gas pump. Right. T…”
Trump claims a $9 billion federal EV charging program only built eight charging stations in the Midwest and three of them don't work.
- JRE #2219▶ 1:30:42
“I defeated 100% of the ISIS caliphate. They said it would take five years. I did it in a matter of a few, literally a few weeks.”
Trump claims he personally defeated 100% of the ISIS territorial caliphate in a few weeks after being told it would take five years.
- JRE #2219▶ 50:41
“it was all around the Wuhan lab, by the way, there are pictures with little lines, their body bags all around the Wuhan lab”
Trump claims there are pictures showing rows of body bags surrounding the Wuhan lab at the outset of COVID-19.
- JRE #2219▶ 2:56:49
“They stole 95% of our business. It's in Taiwan right now.”
Trump claims Taiwan has taken 95% of America's chip manufacturing business.