During a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience (#2505), Joe Rogan and comedian Tom Segura criticized congressional stock trading before the conversation eventually turned toward Donald Trump’s own financial dealings.
The discussion began after Rogan pulled up a chart comparing the stock market performance of members of Congress from both political parties against the S&P 500. While acknowledging that percentage-based charts can sometimes be misleading, Rogan argued that the trend was still obvious.
“When you look at the chart and you look at the difference between the Republicans and Democrats in terms of insider trading in Congress, they’re all doing it,” Rogan said.
Segura immediately agreed. “They’re all doing it,” he replied.
Rogan continued by suggesting that the bipartisan nature of the issue was exactly why it persists unchecked.
“That’s why they can do it,” he said. “If it was only the Democrats, the Republicans would be like, ‘What the f**k, bro?’ But since they’re all doing it, everybody’s like, ‘Well, there’s a problem. There’s no problem. Huh? I don’t see nothing.'”
When the topic shifted to whether anyone had actually faced consequences, Rogan expressed doubt that serious accountability had ever existed.
“A few blabbermouths probably, some outsider, some that they were like, ‘F**k him. Throw him under the bus,'” Rogan said. “They probably had a few guys they threw under the bus and it’s probably somebody that didn’t have a portfolio.”
He then pointed to what he described as the built-in temptation of the system itself.
“That’s a tough thing to resist, to be sitting in Congress…,” Segura said.
Rogan agreed and added, “and you know you’re not going to get punished.”
Rogan then pivoted the discussion toward Trump, asking, “Didn’t Trump do a lot of like stock purchases?”
Segura responded bluntly: “He’s made a fortune. He’s made a fortune in this.”
The conversation then moved to a legal dispute involving Trump’s finances. Rogan referenced Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit connected to the 2018 leak of his tax returns to The New York Times, claiming the outcome carried sweeping implications.
“The US is forever barred and precluded from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization’s current tax filings,” Rogan said.
Segura added another claim regarding the alleged outcome of the settlement.
“The latest thing is that he and his kids and his company cannot be audited,” Segura said.
Rogan responded sarcastically. “Oh, that’s cool. That is cool,” he said.
