Aaron Rodgers made a podcast appearance to unload on the state of American politics, arguing that neither party has delivered for regular people and that the current administration has broken its central promises to voters.
Rodgers pointed to an appearance by FBI Director Kash Patel on Joe Rogan’s podcast as a moment that raised his expectations, only to watch those expectations go unmet.
“That m[]ron Kash Patel, he goes on Rogan, which I watch a lot cuz I like Joe and Joe’s a friend. And he says day one we’re going, we’re opening up the Epstein files. There’s been nothing but the obstruction of transparency with this entire administration,” Rodgers said.
He argued that Donald Trump’s second term has failed to deliver on core campaign pledges.
“Trump gets into office running on all these policies, you know, he’s going to go after the swamp and not go into foreign wars and end the Ukraine stuff and transparency in the Epstein files,” Rodgers said. “Absolutely nothing.”
That failure, he said, undercuts the idea that a genuine political movement exists behind the president.
“So, there’s no MAGA movement. There’s no Make America Great Again movement because the guy you elected hasn’t done any of his campaign promises,” Rodgers said.
Rodgers extended the criticism to both major parties, describing American politics as controlled by a single governing class regardless of which side wins.
“It’s a uni party. Like I was saying, is they want to pin me as, you know, like the Right didn’t like me because I played golf with Obama,” he said. “First of all, I don’t trust anybody in politics, maybe Ron Paul, but it’s all the uni party. It’s one party. They don’t give a [] about regular people. They just keep doing the same policies.”
He pointed to immigration enforcement as an example, noting that ICE operations under Tom Holman drew different reactions depending on which president was in office.
“Everybody was cheering on ICE when Obama was in,” Rodgers said, arguing that the same policies were met with outrage once Trump took over.
Rodgers also questioned whether the Obama administration’s signature promises translated into real change.
“Is anything in the black community gotten significantly better? No,” he said. “Did the Affordable Care Act make a major difference in the world besides being an extra tax for the rich?”
He summed up his disillusionment bluntly.
“Politics is a total sigh up. The whole thing, the whole politics is a crazy sigh up. If voting actually mattered, they wouldn’t let you do it.”
