Podcast host Joe Rogan on Thursday slammed President Trump’s White House plaque describing former President Biden’s time in office as “so crazy,” saying it sets a bad precedent.
“This is so crazy,” Rogan told his guest, comedian Shane Gillis, on “The Joe Rogan Experience” released on Christmas Day. “You shouldn’t be allowed to do this. Right?”
Rogan said that historians, not the current commander in chief, should be allowed to write the plaques of the presidents along the “Presidential Walk of Fame” that Trump added the White House. Rogan read Biden’s plaque, which referred to Trump’s dual successor and predecessor as “Sleepy Joe Biden,” a common nickname used by the president.
“‘Nicknamed both “Sleepy” and “Crooked,”‘” – by you! Nicknamed?” Rogan said. “Like the whole public got together – ‘I’ve got a name for this guy!'”
Rogan repeated that the descriptions were “crazy” and said someone “needs to tell him like, ‘Hey, this is not good. You can’t do that, because other people could do that too and then the White House stops being the White House,’ and it becomes whoever is in its house, where he could just go crazy and say everybody else is a crook.”
Gillis said Trump was “not beating back the dictator charges” with the language used in the plaques, but he said future presidents were not likely to follow suit.
“God, I hope not,” Rogan replied.
Gillis suggested that California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a possible contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president, would not do the same thing.
“Of course he would,” Rogan replied. “He copies everything that Trump does. He even tries to talk like Trump on Twitter. You don’t think that he would put up plaques that talk about how corrupt Trump was and about how terrible — ‘He was quoted as lying over 5,000 times by The Washington Post,’ you know.”
The plaques were spotted under photos of the former presidents that Trump added along the West Wing Colonnade last week. Several of the plaques, including Biden’s, mock the leader in question, while others insert references to Trump.
Biden’s plaque, seen below an image of an autopen, refers to the 46th president as “the worst president in American history.” Former President Obama’s plaque similarly called him “one of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
The plaque for former President Clinton refers to Trump’s 2016 victory over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was first lady from 1993 to 2001. The plaque for former President Reagan says that the 40th president was “a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump’s Historic run for the White House.”