Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati perhaps more latterly known as the King of Trash TV, chopped it up about all things politics during his appearance on The Breakfast Club this morning (May 20).
“I was thinking of running against [Donald] Trump,” the host of The Jerry Springer Show said. “If I ran for president they really would build a wall on the border because you’d have to build a wall to keep Americans from trying to get out because everyone would be leaving. ‘Springer-Trump? We’re out of here’ [laughs]. I have nothing against [Donald Trump] personally but he has no business being president of the United States. I’m a Hillary [Clinton] fan. I really love her. I think she’s great. I loved Barack Obama before that, he was the greatest president we’ve had in my lifetime.”
Later in the interview, Springer returned to the topic of Donald Trump, questioning his controversial views and his polarizing motto, “Make America Great Again.”
“I don’t know what he personally believes but what the message is, it appeals to our worst instinct. There’s a reason why all these white supremacist groups are supporting him. The idea of picking on people because of their race or their religion or where they’re from, it’s so un-American. I mean the whole concept of saying, “Let’s Make America Great Again” that is totally not what America is supposed to be about. Out symbol is the Statue of Liberty, not a wall. We’ve gone around the world saying, ‘Tear down this wall.’ What are you gonna do? Have America be a fortress? It’s horrible. It really is. But I don’t think he’ll win.”
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Moving away from political chat, the conversation later involved Springer detailing the craziest episode of his long-running television program, The Jerry Springer Show.
“They’re all stupid,” he said. “Well the one I always say [is] the guy who married his horse was the craziest show. He married his horse. [It was a] female [horse] but I think the horse was gay so we don’t know. It was a gay horse. We did a follow-up show because the horse left him. She left him. [She] said he was hung like a man.”
Finally, Springer recalled the first fight that broke out on the show.
“Yeah, actually it was about the Klan,” he said. “We had some Klan people on and people in the audience charged. We didn’t have any security because who ever thought there would be a fight on a talk show? The next day we realized [that] this could be dangerous so we got security.”
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