Retired Late Show host David Letterman believes GOP candidate Donald Trump is a "damaged human being" who should "be shunned."
In an interview with the New York Times, Letterman stated that though he has known Trump for many years, even appreciating his occasional appearances on the show, he feels deeply troubled by his recent rise to potentially becoming POTUS.
I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time and I always thought he was exactly what New York City needed to have: the big, blowhard billionaire. 'By God, I’m Donald Trump and I date models and I put up buildings, and everything is gold.' 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.
Despite that, Letterman's affection for The Donald has run its course, saying he no longer finds him funny as a "damaged human being." What does Letterman think we should do with this "damaged" human being? Shun him! The main examples Letterman cites to illustrate his point have been either disproved, or demonstrated to be overblown, such as Trump's alleged mocking of a disabled reporter and calling all Mexicans "rapists."
Right out of the box, he goes after immigrants and how they’re drug dealers and they’re rapists. And everybody swallows hard. And they think, oh, well, somebody’ll take him aside and say, 'Don, don’t do that.' But it didn’t happen.
And then, I can remember him doing an impression, behind a podium, of a reporter for The New York Times 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.
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.
Letterman gladly supports "crooked Hillary" for President, and strongly believes Trump will "be crushed in the general election."
