Barron Trump has been helping his dad connect with young voters by giving him the hot tip on which podcasts to appear on.
The older Trump has been appearing on popular podcasts, most recently Joe Rogan, the most listened to on Spotify. Other appearances include an interview with streamer Adin Ross and has also appeared on This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Flagrant with comic Andrew Schulz and the PBD Podcast with businessman Patrick Bet-David.
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Barron, now 18, has rarely joined his 78-year-old dad on the campaign trail but has reportedly been helping him instead behind the scenes, reports New York Post.
Trump appeared on August 20 with Theo Von, which included a discussion of cocaine. The discussion has garnered 14 million views alone. The former president began the interview by saying Barron had described the podcast saying: Dad, hes big. Hes a big one.
The October 9 Flagrant appearance with Schulz had received 6.2 million views while Trumps October 17 sit-down with Bet-David had a YouTube audience of 2.8 million.
Barron has been very involved in recommending a number of the podcasts that we should do, Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told the Politico Playbook Deep Dive podcast Friday.
I got to tell you, hats off to the young man. Every single recommendation hes had has turned out to be absolute ratings gold thats broke the internet.
Miller added: When you look at the impact of podcasts or YouTube shows non-traditional media part of the thing is youre meeting voters where theyre at.
Barron, Donald’s son with Melania, has just started classes at NYU.
Speaking to Joe Rogan, the nations most listened-to podcaster, the former president spoke out on aliens.
Trump said hes never been a believer in theories about extraterrestrial life visiting Earth. He said he is asked constantly about what the U.S. government knows about the people coming from space, and that, as president, he was told a lot.
But he dodged Rogans entreaties to discuss alien life in detail. Theres no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets dont have life, Trump said. Rogan told him probes and rovers from Earth have shown theres no life there. Its not been a big thing for me, Trump replied. The nations most listened-to podcaster then pressed the former president on whether hes completely committed to bringing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., into his administration.
Oh, I completely am, Trump responded. But the only thing I want to be a little careful about with him is the environmental. Because he doesnt like oil, I love oil and gas. He said hell tell Kennedy to focus on health, do whatever you want. Trump said hes faced pressure not to work with Kennedy, citing big Pharma as one example.
Kennedy has been instrumental in spreading skepticism about vaccines, rejecting the overwhelming consensus among scientists that the benefits of vaccinations outweigh the rare risk of side effects. He also claims pharmaceutical companies conspire to prevent health improvements because they make so much money selling drugs to people with chronic illnesses.
Rogan also is skeptical of vaccines. Trump noted that theyve come up with some amazing things such as the polio vaccine.
