Just one day after a podcast episode aired featuring Donald Trump ranting about windmills in the face of actually having to answer a difficult policy question, the episode has been removed from YouTube for violating the platform’s terms of service.
Trump appeared on an episode of the Full Send podcast, hosted by prank video purveyors known as the Nelk Boys. When asked about how he saw the Russian invasion of Ukraine playing out, Trump instead launched into a tirade against windmills, something he’s been doing for years, often with the same lack of context, prompting, or facts.
In the same episode, Trump also railed against another longtime foe: the extremely legitimate 2020 presidential election. Trump has repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” and “stolen,” but since those things aren’t true, they violate YouTube’s policy prohibiting misinformation.
YouTube removed the episode Thursday evening, one day after it first dropped.
Naturally, Trump is furious. He released a statement ranting about “free speech” and claiming the “Big Tech lunatics” have made it “so that nobody can watch [the podcast] or in any way listen to it.” Of course, the episode, which is titled, “Donald Trump on WW3, Talking to Putin and Joe Rogan!” is still available to listen to on Spotify, where the terms of service don’t seem to apply to prominent, profitable conservatives.
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