Podcaster Joe Rogan once ripped President Donald Trump's administration for ongoing immigration raids while interviewing Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on Wednesday (August 13).

Luna joined the Joe Rogan Experience to defend her claims that protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids held in June were fueled by "Chinese money," which Rogan was open to, however, reminded her that the public anger reflected fear from Americans over how the raids were occurring.

“I absolutely believe this is true, but also, it was in reaction to some of the ICE raids," Rogan said.

The podcaster said he believes the protests were so strong because of ICE officers detaining ordinary workers.

“It was a visceral reaction that a lot of people had to the idea of people just showing up and pulling people out of schools and pulling people out of Home Depot and pulling people that were just hard-working people,” Rogan said. “That’s what freaks people out.”

Rogan, who staunchly supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election, added that the president's platform on immigration pledged to target violent criminals, rather than tradesmen and day laborers also being detained.

“When people thought about ICE, they thought, ‘Great, we’re going to get rid of the gang members,’ they didn’t think, ‘Great, you’re going to get rid of the landscaper.’”

Rogan previously dissented from the Trump administration on ICE roundups of illegal immigrants, which he called "insane," claiming they should focus on investigating dangerous criminals rather than raiding Home Depot parking lots.

“There’s two things that are insane. One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?” Rogan said on his podcast last month, referring to incidents that sparked Los Angeles protests.

Rogan had also previously criticized the Trump administration's announcement claiming there was never a list or footage revealing Epstein's alleged clients, which was a talking point of conservative pundits for years.

“They’ve got videotape and all [of] a sudden they don’t,” Rogan said on the episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast released on July 15.

“You had the director of the FBI on this show saying, ‘If there was [a videotape], nothing you’re looking for is on those tapes,'” he added, referring to FBI Director Kash Patel's appearance on his podcast in June. “Like, what? Why’d they say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people doing horrible s–t? Why’d they say that? Didn’t [Attorney General] Pam Bondi say that?”

Bondi had previously claimed that the supposed Epstein list was on her desk awaiting review months ago and told reporters that the FBI was reviewing "tens of thousands of videos" of Epstein "with children or child porn" on July 1 before the DOJ suddenly announced that there was no "Epstein list" or incriminating footage of his associates days later. President Trump spent months claiming he had plans to release everything the government had on Epstein and his alleged associates, which included releasing The Epstein Files: Phase 1 in February, though the files revealed next to no new information.

Rogan claimed that the Trump administration's new stance on Epstein and other actions were an attempt to distract his campaign supporters of failed promises regarding the pedophile financier.

“Just bomb Iran and everybody forgets. Everybody forgets about it,” Rogan said, referencing strikes on Iranian nuclear weapons facilities launched last month.

Trump, who had been photographed alongside Epstein in the past, claimed that he never visited the financier's notorious private island where numerous underage girls and young women were sexually abused, but claimed "a lot of people did."

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