JOE Rogan has pointed out the one anomaly among U.S. presidents who seem to dramatically age while in office.
When comparing photos of American presidents before they moved into the White House and after they leave office, the change is usually dramatic.
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Being the leader of the free world takes its toll on almost everyone who has been president, seeming to speed up the aging process.
The impact can even be seen in the faces of relatively young leaders — like former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, who were just 47 and 46 years old respectively when they assumed office — that aged noticeably in just eight years.
There’s only one U.S. president who seems to have escaped this trend, according to Joe Rogan — and it’s not current President Joe Biden.
He discussed politics during a recent interview with UFC fighter Bo Nickal on his popular Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, released December 21.
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“[Donald Trump] is the only guy that went through four years in the White House and didn’t seem to age,” Rogan said.
“Everybody gets in that White House and they just fall apart.”
Rogan’s comparison comes after he was called out for mistakenly criticizing Biden for a comment that was actually made by Trump.
“Did you hear what he said yesterday, or a couple days ago?” Rogan asked Nickal, as first reported by Mediaite.
“[Biden] is talking about the Revolutionary War. He’s like, ‘One of the reasons why we lost the Revolutionary War… was that they didn’t have enough airports.’”
A producer on the show soon fact-checked Rogan, pointing out that Biden once repeated the statement in 2020 when mocking Trump, who originally (and seriously) said it in 2019.
While Rogan said he thought comments like this were enough to make Biden unfit for office, he laughed off the error as meaningless when attributed to Trump.
Nickal had recently played golf with the former president and was impressed with his energy levels and skills on the green, he told Rogan.
“It was super surreal. [Trump] was such a bro and so cool. I think he’s in the upper seventies, and I couldn’t believe how smart and sharp the guy was,” Nickal recounted.
Rogan said he does not see any of the signs of advanced aging in Trump that he sees in other former presidents.
“Their hair gets gray, they look tired all the time, they just, like, the weight of the world, which it literally is, is on their shoulders,” he said.
Nickal said that Trump excelled at the game, even when competing with world-class athletes.
He said that, at one point, he told Trump his game “was clutch,” and in response, the former president said, “Don’t you want your president to be clutch?”
“That was slick,” Nickal laughed.
Rogan has been an avid supporter of Trump in several past interviews and has come under fire for helping promote debunked conspiracy theories about the Bidens, the 2020 election, and more on his series.
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