Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he believes President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement is finished, arguing the president has not followed through on the pledges he made while campaigning.
"There's no 'Make America Great Again' movement because the guy you elected hasn't done any of his campaign promises," Rodgers told teammate Cam Heyward on the Not Just Football podcast.
Rodgers, 42, then listed the specific promises he said Trump has failed to keep. "Trump gets into office running on all these policies. You know, he's going to go after the swamp and go into Fort Knox and cut the vaccine stuff and not go into foreign wars and end the Ukraine stuff and... what's actually happened?" he said, adding that there has been "absolutely nothing" in the way of transparency on the Epstein files.
Ties to RFK Jr. and vaccine skepticism
Rodgers has long had connections to figures in Trump's political orbit through his promotion of alternative medicine and his anti-vaccine views, which have placed him in the same circles as Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes that the MAGA movement is over.
Rodgers blasted President Trump for failing to uphold certain campaign promises.
Criticism of transparency and foreign policy
Rodgers said the entire Trump administration has been marked by "nothing but the obstruction of transparency." He also argued that the government operates as a "pro-Israel-first administration," describing it as part of a broader "uni-party" and questioning how many members of Congress receive sponsorship from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The quarterback pushed back on being labeled a Trump supporter because of his vaccine skepticism. "They think because I'm a, uhh, you know, anti-vax that I'm like a right-wing conspiracy theorist, you know, Trumper," he said. "And I'm like, I don't trust anybody in politics. Maybe Ron Paul."
He also called FBI Director Kash Patel a "moron" during the podcast appearance.
Rodgers' previous statements about alternative medicine and his stance against vaccinations has put him in similar circles to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Not sparing Obama or Biden
Trump was not the only political figure Rodgers criticized. He called politics a "sham" and said he had similar feelings about former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
"You think something's going to actually change. You know... when Obama was president... everybody's like, 'Oh, there's going to be hope and change for a better world.' Like, is anything in the Black community gotten significantly better?" Rodgers asked Heyward, who is Black.
He went on to question whether the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law passed under Obama, had made any real difference beyond acting as "an extra tax" on the wealthy, and whether healthcare in the country had meaningfully improved. "And then Trump's going to come in and drain the swamp and do something, and nothing happens, and nothing changes," he said.
As of publishing, the White House had not issued any public statement responding to Rodgers' comments.
