Trump calls being president a very dangerous business, citing assassination attempts in highly anticipated Joe Rogan interview

Former President Donald Trump called being president a “very dangerous business,” citing his two close calls with would-be assassins in a highly anticipated Joe Rogan interview that was released Friday night.During his nearly three-hour appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” — which generated more than 350,000 views within 30 minutes of it going live — Trump repeatedly referred to the role of the presidency as a dangerous position, suggesting that pundits and officials don’t want to talk about the attempts on his life.“I do things that don’t necessarily make me so popular.I just do what’s right,” the 78-year-old Republican presidential nominee said.

“I understand what I’m doing.You make yourself a target, and it’s a very dangerous business.

I never thought of that when I did it.”Trump’s stump speech in Butler, Pa., on July 13 turned into a bloodbath that stunned the world.Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire on a rooftop 130 yards from where the former president was speaking, nicking him in the ear and causing pandemonium before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.The attack left a 50-year-old retired fire chief in the audience dead and two others severely injured.Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned 10 days later after facing bipartisan outrage over agency failures.Just two months later, would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested after he got within a few hundred yards of Trump as he played golf at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sept.15.Rogan, 57, suggested the assassination attempts wouldn’t have happened if the media — and Democrats such as his rival Vice President Kamala Harris and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — didn’t conflate Trump with Adolf Hitler.“They love to take things out of context and distort them,” Rogan said.Trump recorded the discussion at the comedian’s studios in Austin, Texas, just hours before it went l...