Anduril founder remembers urging Trump to run for president as teenager

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Protection tech billionaire and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey shared with podcast host Joe Rogan that at a younger age he wrote Donald Trump a letter urging him to run for president.

"I do not know if you realize this, however I used to be truly one of many true Trump OGs," Luckey told Rogan on Thursday, utilizing the acronym which means "unique gangster." "I wrote a letter to Donald Trump once I was 15 telling him that he ought to run for president."

Luckey, age 33, distinctly recalled why he believed Trump could be a powerful alternative.

"So I imply that is approach again. That is like again in like 2009, 2010. So approach earlier than anybody else. And the most effective half is, I posted about it on Fb and I stated, ‘I feel Donald Trump could be a better option for president than any of those different guys. I need to see a businessman who's signed either side of a test earlier than. And also you take a look at the people who find themselves working sort of the, you realize, the trendy events, arguably the uni-party, and he is clearly not a part of that.’"

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Palmer Luckey, founding father of Anduril Industries, beat a number of legacy protection gamers in a contest for a serious contract to develop an unmanned fighter jet for the US Air Power and is now valued at $8.5 billion. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)

Luckey advised Rogan that folks usually assume he began supporting Trump in 2016 as a result of he preferred Trump’s controversial rhetoric, however he joked that he’d truly appreciated that sort of rhetoric years earlier, even again in 2009.

"Nevertheless it wasn’t even that extremist then," Rogan stated, recalling a extra reasonable period in politics.

"It wasn’t then," Luckey agreed.

Luckey and Rogan recalled how constant Trumphas been on some core points, equivalent to when he spoke to Oprah Winfrey in the 1980’s.

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Then-Businessman Donald Trump and speak present host Oprah Winfrey at Tyson vs Holmes Conference Corridor in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey. Trump had famously spoken on her present. (Photograph by Jeffrey Asher/ Getty Photos)

"The strongest argument for Trump is that anyone would have been higher than what the institution was pushing," Luckey stated, criticizing each Republicans and Democrats of America’s political institution.

"I feel that is the most effective argument," Rogan agreed.

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President Trump's victory over Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 was thought-about to be a large political upset on the time. (Kimberly White / Stringer | Andrew Harnik / Employees)

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Luckey recalled how absurd he discovered it on the time when associates would claim Trump was a "warmonger."

"How can Trump be the warmonger when he is the man saying we have to cease preventing these wars, get out of those different international locations, get our boots again within the US and never get in a struggle with Russia, China, or every other nation that we do not have to get into?" he requested.