“You said a lot of wild shit and then CNN, in their brilliance, by highlighting your wild shit made you much more popular. And they boost you in the polls because people were tired of someone talking in this bullshit, prepared politician lingo and even if they didn’t agree with you, they at least knew, whoever that guy is, that’s him. That’s really him.”
— Joe Rogan, quoted by The Independent, explaining Donald Trump’s popularity.
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