Airbnb Co-Founder Explains Why He Left Democrats, Embraced Trump

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia explained on “The Katie Miller Podcast” Monday that he left the Democratic Party because of the border crisis under former President Joe Biden.

Biden presided over the highest level of net migration in U.S. history, according to The New York Times’ analysis of government data in December 2024. Gebbia said on the podcast that he started focusing on the porous border in 2021 and took it upon himself to learn about the issue.

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“I think it was early 2021, mid-2021, the activity at the border caught my attention and I just remember thinking, what’s going on with this topic? It seems as if there’s no border,” Gebbia said. “And as it got worse that year, I felt like I needed to understand this problem more.”

“So I reached out to my friends, largely on the Democratic side of the House, at all levels from the highest level all the way down, and had conversations just trying to piece together like, ‘Hey, what am I missing about this? Like, fill me in,’” he continued. “And I got some answers but felt unfulfilled.”