Joe Rogan on possible Trump administration corruption: “In this administration ... the wolves have taken over the hen house”
Guest Dave Smith: “This is what draining the swamp looks like”
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From the March 26, 2026, edition of The Joe Rogan Experience, posted on YouTube
JOE ROGAN (HOST): So, Dave, you were telling me right before the show that you are now retiring because you got an impromptu phone call and bet hundreds of millions of dollars on oil prices going down. Congratulations.
DAVE SMITH: It was, it was a good bet. It just wasn't timed right.
ROGAN: I thought you got it in on time. I thought you got it in like — yeah. I thought you got it in like five minutes early.
SMITH: I did not.
ROGAN: Bro, how is there not a massive investigation into that right away? Didn't someone make like $1.8 billion in like five minutes?
SMITH: Yeah. There's a, there's a lot of those. Like, trades like that that should be investigated that kinda never are.
ROGAN: Bro. How about what's his name? Lutnick? Yeah, how about that one?
SMITH: He's, so he's —
ROGAN: The tariffs one?
SMITH: Working for the administration and also standing to gain huge if people can sue over the the tariffs, right?
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ROGAN: Like, isn't it wild that people were on the files, visited the island, and then they still work?
SMITH: It was unbelievable. Like —
ROGAN: Some people had to resign from some jobs.
SMITH: Well, especially just him because he so — the way — there's something about a really confident liar. Like, where they just — where, because I mean, that, that interview clip where he's like, let me tell something. I met Jeffrey Epstein that one time. He had a massage table. He said they were sex massage tables. I went right back to my wife and I said, honey, we are never hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein again. And that is that, you know?
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SMITH: He was a, he was always like a money finance guy. He, I think he used to work for CNBC if I'm correct.
ROGAN: In this administration, this like, the wolves have taken over the hen house.
SMITH: Yeah, yeah. They sure have. This is, this is what draining the swamp looks like.