Controversial podcaster Joe Rogan, as soon as a fan of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, stated on the Thursday episode of The Joe Rogan Expertise that Trudeau's dealing with of the trucker protest earlier this 12 months made him change his thoughts in regards to the "creepy f****** dictator."

Rogan spoke to Concordia College professor Gad Saad about Canada and the way his views on the prime minister had modified on account of the three-week protest that shut down central Ottawa. The truckers had been protesting towards a COVID-19 vaccine mandate and occupied the middle of the Canadian capital from January 28 till the demonstration was damaged up by police on February 20.

Rogan stated that Canada offering higher healthcare and schooling than the USA by imposing larger taxes as soon as "appeared like an important system" that made folks "friendlier."

"However then, when you've a creepy f**king dictator for a major minister, that is what [Trudeau] is," Rogan stated. "The way in which he behaves, the way in which he behaved throughout this factor, the disingenuous means that he communicated, it freaked me out, as a result of I by no means thought that man was like that."

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Joe Rogan slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his dealing with of a trucker protest in Ottawa earlier this 12 months. Above, Trudeau (L) arrives forward of a unprecedented NATO summit at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Rogan (R) performs at The Ice Home Comedy Membership in Pasadena, California.KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/Michael Schwartz/WireImage/Getty Pictures

"I believed he was a good-looking fella with a very good vocabulary and looks as if a pleasant man," Rogan stated. "Earlier than he actually leaned into the woke stuff, I believed he was a sort, delicate man, and I believed that is most likely a very good disposition to be a frontrunner.

"However simply the way in which he labeled these truckers as racist for no cause, the those who had been protesting towards mandates, he determined that they had been misogynists and racists," he went on.

"The way in which he did it. He simply solid a pejorative label on them with no proof, with no provocation, it was identical to 'I'll label them this in order that I can impose legal guidelines to cease them from doing what is basically a peaceable protest,'" Rogan stated.

Rogan might have been referring to remarks Trudeau made on January 31 in regards to the look of Nazi-themed imagery on a number of the indicators on the protest. A few of these indicators in contrast COVID-19 measures to the Holocaust.

"Freedom of expression, meeting and affiliation are cornerstones of democracy, however Nazi symbolism, racist imagery and desecration of warfare memorials will not be," Trudeau stated. "This isn't the story of our pandemic, our nation, our folks. My focus is standing with Canadians and getting by this pandemic."

The protest, which was known as the Freedom Convoy, was ended by police on February 20 with 76 automobiles being impounded and 191 arrests.

Newsweek reached out to Justin Trudeau's workplace for remark.