Joe Rogan condemns Trump's 'Gestapo' for 'snatching up people'

Podcast host Joe Rogan is now openly calling out President Donald Trump's administration over its heavy-handed immigration enforcement, and comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Nazi Germany's secret police force.

During a Tuesday episode of his show "The Joe Rogan Experience," Rogan hosted Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) where the two discussed a variety of topics over the course of the nearly three-hour episode. Roughly two hours in, Rogan brought up the recent killing of 37 year-old U.S. citizen and mother Renee Good at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rogan called it a "terrible tragedy" and that it "seemed all kinds of wrong to me."

"You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people — many of which turn out to be U.S. citizens that just don't have their papers on them," he said. "Are we really gonna be the Gestapo, 'Where's your papers?' Is that what we've come to?"

Rogan – who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election — heavily criticized the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) policy of allowing ICE agents to wear masks and operate as an "anonymous" force in American cities. He posited that there could soon be "armed gangs pretending to be ICE agents robbing people."

"One of the real problems is, ICE are villains," Rogan said. And people are looking at them like, military people that on the streets of our city. And they're masked up, which is also a problem, right? Because if you get arrested by a cop, you're allowed to ask the cop, 'what is your name and badge number?' And you can film that cop. If you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right. they're wearing a mask. They don't have to tell you s——. That's a problem."

Paul countered that for some ICE agents working near the Southern border, masks may be necessary due to the "lawlessness" of Mexican drug cartels. But he sympathized with Rogan's point, and brought up an instance of ICE agents arresting "mostly women and children" in a courthouse in Chicago, Illinois.

"It's like, really? I don't think you need to be wearing a mask in a courthouse," Paul said.

Watch the segment below, and click here to watch the full episode.