By The Federalist (Politics) | Created at 2024-10-29 18:13:42 | Updated at 2024-10-30 09:26:34
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Former President Donald Trump and Joe Rogan mocked California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom for sanitizing San Francisco ahead of an official state visit from Chinese leadership.
In a three-hour interview with Rogan published Friday night, Trump shared his experience traveling to China during the first year of his presidency.
“Their air is dirty,” Trump said, but when he got there, “they laid it out. And I said this air is good.”
“Do you know they closed every factory one week before I got there from within 200 miles?” Trump said.
“That’s like what Gavin Newsom did when Xi Jinping came to San Franciso,” Rogan said.
“He cleaned it up,” Trump added.
“He got rid of homeless people,” Rogan said.
“Isn’t that terrible in a way to think, you know?” Trump said. “He cleaned it up and then it became a pigsty.”
“How about just keep your fucking house clean.” Joe Rogan and Donald Trump slam Gavin Newsom for “cleaning up” San Francisco for Xi Jinping. pic.twitter.com/Vne8bu4KLO
Rogan went on to reference Newsom’s remarks last year when the California governor justified a clean-up blitz ahead of the Chinese president’s arrival after constituents had been forced to tolerate the filth for years. The New York Times characterized the scramble by state and local officials to ready the city for a meeting between Presidents Xi and Joe Biden last year as one of “teenagers frantically cleaning up after a house party with their parents on the way home.”
“If you have people over at your house, you are gonna clean up the house,” Newsom said last November.
Gavin Newsom again doubled down on his clean up of San Francisco for Xi: “If you have people over at your house, you are gonna clean up the house.” pic.twitter.com/8kkaBkga7w
“How about just keep your f***ing house clean?” Rogan said Friday. “Can you imagine? It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard anybody say ever as a governor as to excuse why you finally cleaned up your homeless problem.”
Rogan went on to highlight an app that “will show you where the human feces has been documented in San Francisco.”
“It’s just bum crap everywhere,” Rogan said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presented the infamous “poop map” to the California governor during a Fox News debate last fall.
“You see how almost the whole thing is covered,” DeSantis said. “Because that is what has happened in one of the previous greatest cities this country has ever had.”
“Human feces is now a fact of life,” DeSantis added, “except when a communist dictator comes to town. Then they clean up the streets.”
This is a map of San Francisco. There’s a lot of plots on that. You may be asking ‘what is that plotting?’ This is an app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco. That is what has happened in one of the previous greatest cities this… pic.twitter.com/otOz7dQxei
Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan's email newsletter here.
