I don’t know what you’re trying to say Howard. This is what Trump is so nobody should be surprised? That The Donald has always been a short fingered vulgarian and the Republicans should have stopped him? That your show is crude, rude and unacceptable and we should just suck up our moral outrage at the dirt? OK.
Well…color me shocked!
When Howard Stern begins to seem like a mature, well-reasoned adult, it’s time to head for the backyard bunker…
I think what Stern is trying to point out is that HO was on his show repeatedly, and this is what they talked about. Trump, to no one’s surprise should take his non-apology has anything but bupkis.
Trump: If Princess Di were alive today, she would testify that I am a perfect gentleman… probably standing by my side as Mrs. Donald Trump.
The Khans would have been at the wedding, too.
Tell me something I didn’t know Howard.
@maximus in 1962 my dad began a bunker at our farm… luckily Kennedy solved the Cuban missile crisis before my dad got a third of the way done. Next time we won’t have that much time to prepare.
Cute kid Sherlock.
Slightly OT, but I have a little theory.
It’s been a long time since Trump had a meltdown–2 or 3 days.
Is he so tired that he can’t work up a good crazy fit? Maybe too medicated?
I’m worried about the race now!
I also think that’s what he’s saying. The Trump campaign is saying he was just being an entertainer in those interviews, that the comments were just for laughs. Stern is saying that’s who Trump is both with and without an audience to entertain.
I’m hoping Trump will play this at one of his rallies.
Howard Stern’s victory lap is something to behold in its own right. In his telling, he does better reporting than all 5 networks’ journalists combined! I’m sorry, but I just hope and pray that the nadir of Western Civilization never sinks low enough for Howard Stern to claim any sort of loftier mantle. And maybe that’s why I hate The Rump so much. He’s both a byproduct of, and a leading contributor towards, the sinking.
I’m ashamed to admit that, my stated contempt for Howard Stern notwithstanding, I’m dying to know whether he’s interviewed any other porn stars who found The Rump just a little too creepy for their discerning tastes.
Anyone that doesn’t know that this is Trump, and that he won the Republican nomination because this is what the majority of republican voters is like and so they like him for this reason, isn’t paying attention or is lying.
That’s kinda the central joke of his show. Stern is a mature, well-reasoned adult. He just knows he can make bank by regressing to being six for five hours every morning. Anyone who’s dealt with him outside of the show or his ‘on-air’ persona will tell you that he’s actually kind of a quiet, almost shy, guy with a lot of insightful thoughts he keeps a lid on until he can bring them out in a way that makes sure nobody notices them.
Yeah, this is who he is and who he’s always been. A record of decades, all readily available on the Internet. And yet, somehow, it never so much as occurred to the other thirteen older white wealthy conservative men (or the other two) that it was a thing worthy of discussion during the primaries. And that’s kind of the real problem with the Republican Party, not with Trump.
Howard Stern is just as big an asshole a Trump is when it comes to women but the difference is he doesn’t give a shit and Trump didn’t either until he decided to run for President. How Trump didn’t think his past would come back to bite him shows how arrogant he is.
A lot of people have a narrow picture of Stern that isn’t completely accurate. It’s completely legitimate to dislike him (I’ve had my moments), but he does do good interviews. It’s not crazy to compare them to the interviews that Marc Maron does. I think that Stern’s skill as an interviewer is pretty widely acknowledged by people in the field – Terry Gross has called him a genius, for example.
The nature of his interviews is what Stern is really talking about here. Trump is saying it wasn’t real, that it was schtick, a character. That cuts into the heart of what Stern sells his listeners. Stern’s brand is about being real, and telling the truth. Lots of people have questioned that, and there are definitely questions that can be raised. But that’s the brand.
The preoccupations with sex and the expressions of anger or dislike for people that Stern has aired over the years have always been justified by Stern saying that this stuff is all real, it’s the way people really think, and the people who don’t let this stuff hang out are being phony. That’s always been his justification for everything, it’s the core of his public identity.
Stern is right, the Trump that emerged on those interviews was the real Trump. But Stern is saying it now for his own reasons.
Howard Stern has a better grasp of Donald Trump and human nature than the blathering media idiots who keep saying things like if only Trump would say this or stay on message or give the speech he gave that one time…failing to realize that that Trump is not the real Trump.
The real Trump is what Stern just described.
“While Stern has declined to unfairly replay Trump’s past derogatory comments in a “betrayal” of the real estate mogul’s willingness to come on his show, he insisted that what listeners heard on his radio program was the real Donald Trump.”
Meh. I wouldn’t put “betrayal” in sarcasta-quotes there. He’s right. His entire career depends on people being willing to show up, be interviewed and be open with him and his minions. If he creates a perception of being willing to take an active role in using his show’s product as a political or personal destruction bludgeon against an interviewee, that fucks him up big time.