Joe Rogan was stunned after news of President Donald Trump's newly created $1.8 billion slush fund and called the ordeal "crazy," The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.
The longtime Trump ally spoke about it Monday on his "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast with comedian Tom Segura, discussing the $10 billion lawsuit settlement between Trump and the IRS and how the Department of Justice announced that the fund would compensate allies of the president who claim they were wrongly prosecuted under former President Joe Biden's administration, including Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol rioters.
Rogan took issue with the document signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that forever bars the United States from pursuing any tax claims or other legal actions against the president, his family, his trusts, and his companies.
"That is so crazy," Rogan said. "Imagine like somebody accused you of murder, yeah, and turns out you weren’t guilty of that murder and then you sue them and you go, 'You can never prosecute me for murder again.' And then you just go straight Uday Hussein."
Hussein was the son of Saddam Hussein and an Iraqi politician. He "had a reputation for sadism and cruelty, and died in a gory siege under fire from U.S. forces in 2003," according to The Beast.
Rogan endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential election and has since become a more vocal and "cautious" critic of the president during his second term.
Former IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel told The Beast that the president should be treated just like every other American citizen.
"This is an unprecedented remedy," Werfel said. "People expect the same tax rules and enforcement framework to apply to everybody."
Both Democrats and Republicans have criticized the slush fund, known as the taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization” fund. It's led GOP lawmakers to openly challenge Trump.
