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
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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
