Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called out longtime New York acquaintance and radio host Howard Stern as “weak, pathetic and disloyal,” after Stern—who had regularly hosted Trump for decades and has lauded him as one of his best guests—argued he’d gladly accept the label “woke” if it meant not backing Trump.
Forbes reports Trump blasted Stern in an early morning post on his social media platform Truth Social, calling Stern a “broken weirdo, unattractive both inside and out, trying like hell to be relevant!”
The former president’s comments come just days after Stern on his SiriusXM show addressed criticism of the show being too “woke,” claiming he takes the term “as a compliment.”
Stern also argued on his show that “if woke means I can’t get behind Trump” or supporting transgender rights or promoting the Covid-19 vaccine, then “dude call me woke as you f**king want” (Trump’s stance on vaccination has been wishy-washy, while the former president has generally opposed transgender rights, including through a transgender ban in the military, and has expressed support for banning trans women in women’s sports).
Stern also has more recently called out Trump as well as a host of conservative issues, including the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last June, which prompted him to tease a presidential run, vowing to “make the country fair again.”
Trump also claimed on Saturday that Stern “lost his friends and MUCH of his audience” and that “nobody cares about him any longer.” Stern’s syndicated radio show, however, is estimated to maintain a steady audience of roughly 10 million listeners. Stern is also the highest-paid radio host in the world, signing a five-year contract extension with SiriusXM in 2020.
Trump appeared more than three dozen times on the Howard Stern show throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, though Trump’s final appearance on the show came in August 2015.
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