Donāt expect Howard Stern to be airing any old interviews with Donald Trump in the wake of the āAccess Hollywoodā hot-mic leak.
āWhy donāt I play all the tapes? I have to tell you why: I feel Donald Trump did the show in an effort to be entertaining and have fun with us and I feel like it would be a betrayal to any of our guests if I sat there and played them now where people are attacking him,ā the SiriusXM host said during his show Monday morning.
The interviews werenāt conducted to āfuck someone over ... we were having a good time. I fully knew what I was doing when I interviewed Trump. I knew I had a guy who loved to talk about sex ... I had a guy who loved to evaluate women on a scale of 1 to 10. These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain the audience.ā
Stern has had Trump on as a guest numerous times over the past 16 years, and considers him a friend. In the past, the Republican presidential nominee has discussed things like why ādeeply troubled womenā are āgreat in bedā and not having āgay thoughtsā on the show.
One thing Stern has not heard is the ālocker room talkā Trump referred to while defending his lewd āAccess Hollywoodā comments that alluded to sexual assault.
āThis idea of ālocker room talkā... all the times Iāve been around guys ā and, believe me, when Iām around guys 85 percent of the times youāre talking about pussy ā but I have never been in the room when someone has said āgrab them by the pussy,ā Stern said. āNo oneās ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, āHey Iām going to invade someoneās space.ā ... A lot of [locker room talk is] real kind of desperate talk. The reason itās in a locker room is because no oneās proud of it.ā
For the record, Stern is voting for Hillary Clinton.
Editorās note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ā 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ā from entering the U.S.