New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers has never been shy about voicing his political opinions, and even though he has yet to comment publicly on last week’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, he’s already made it very clear what he thinks about Trump.
While Aaron Rodgers is generally very conservative and libertarian in his political views, he is not really a supporter or believer in Donald Trump as he was quite disappointed by Trump’s first term in office. And he did not hold back his thoughts on the former president during a recent podcast appearance.
“Trump, okay, Trump’s an outsider, all the rhetoric, we’re going to drain a swamp and go after the corruption. And I don’t think a lot happened,” Rodgers said during an appearance on the Look Into It podcast earlier this year.
Rodgers was frustrated that Trump followed the advice of Dr. Tony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“And what I fault him for is Tony Fauci, because he is an establishment pharmacrat since he got in, and he’s been in forever, and he’s the highest paid government official. And he let, and not only did Trump push the vaccine, Operation Warp Speed, or whatever the [heck] it was, but he let Fauci stay in charge and shut the country down,” Rodgers said.
“So my thing on politics is I’ve always had the [freaking] sham because the majority of them are all juiced in, and it’s run by the big banks, the big pharma, the lobbyists, the big everything, right? That doesn’t give a [expletive] deep down about the American people, all they care about is profits, power and control.”
For this reason, Rodgers will not be supporting Trump in the upcoming presidential election – and the debate was not going to change that. Instead, he has made it very clear that he is supporting third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In fact, Rodgers was nearly his running mate in the election.
