- Podcaster Joe Rogan expressed concern that President Donald Trump ’s use of military-style immigration tactics is a "slippery slope" that could lead to wider oppression, he said on a Wednesday episode featuring Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas.
- Rogan warned that masked, militarized federal agents, who are less trained than police or military, could be used by a "different ruler" for causes like confiscating guns, threatening "our free society."
- Eszterhas agreed with Rogan, criticizing the Trump administration's labeling of protesters killed by federal agents as terrorists.
- Rogan has previously criticized Trump’s mass deportation tactics, calling the shooting of a protester "horrific" and mass raids "f***ing nuts," and has privately urged a shift in strategy.
- Despite Rogan's criticisms, Trump has publicly praised him, and the administration did scale back some aggressive mass immigration raids by masked agents after January shootings, though still pursuing record deportations.
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