David Letterman has never ever liked Donald Trump. Back when Dave was still doing his late-night TV show, he would invite Trump on the program just so he could ridicule and mock him. Take a look at this appearance by Trump on The Late Show, circa 2012:
And now, in an interview with the New York Times, Letterman is again speaking out on the topic of Trump, and he is pulling no punches, telling the Times:
“Nobody took him seriously, and people loved him when he would come on the show. I would make fun of his hair, I would call him a slumlord, I would make fun of his ties — and he could just take a punch like nothing. He was the perfect guest.”
Letterman added that he is indeed surprised by how successful Trump has been as a candidate for the White House, but also noted that one thing Trump did should have immediately disqualified him from serious consideration:
“I can remember him doing an impression, behind a podium, of a reporter for the New York Times (Serge Kovaleski) who has a congenital disorder, and then I thought, if this was somebody else — if this was a member of your family or a next-door neighbor, a guy at work — you would immediately distance yourself from that person,” Letterman said. “And that’s what I thought would happen. Because if you can do that in a national forum, that says to me that you are a damaged human being. If you can do that, and not apologize, you’re a person to be shunned.”
And the former television host also said Trump needs psychiatric help for his behavior:
“I don’t know anything about politics. I don’t know anything about trade agreements. I don’t know anything about China devaluing the yuan. But if you see somebody who’s not behaving like any other human you’ve known, that means something. They need an appointment with a psychiatrist. They need a diagnosis and they need a prescription.”
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