Letterman: Trump is ‘Ignorant’, but Building a ‘Dictatorship’

In a recent interview, Letterman offered his extremely critical take on the new President. Then-businessman Donald Trump appeared numerous times on the Letterman shows. Each time the format was designed for laughs, not political chit-chat.

He was a joke of a wealthy guy. We didn’t take him seriously. He’d sit down, and I would just start making fun of him. He never had any retort. He was big and doughy, and you could beat him up. He seemed to have a good time, and the audience loved it, and that was Donald Trump.”

Clearly, Letterman sees things much differently now. He’s taken specific umbrage at President Trump’s tweets regarding Georgia congressman John Lewis, who made a publicly disrespectful point of not attending the Inauguration on January 20.

In return, then President-Elect Trump criticized Lewis as “all talk, talk, talk – no action or results.”

During a 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, Lewis was severely beaten by police following the orders of Democrat Sheriff Bull Connor. While Lewis deserves credit for his courage in standing up to segregation at the risk of personal danger and fighting for civil rights, the 15-term legislative career of the Atlanta congressman has not been marked by many outstanding accomplishments.

Letterman claims that Trump’s tweets about Lewis “broke my heart” and that Trump “ought to have known better than that.”

Another issue that set off the late-night funny man was the decision by the Trump administration to reverse President Obama’s guidance directing schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms of their choosing.

I just think, ‘Are you kidding me?’ Look, you’re a human, I’m a human, we’re breathing the same air. We have the same problems. Who . . . are you to throw a log in the road of somebody who has a different set of difficulties in life?”

After a long career of making people laugh at his antics and poking fun at others, the bushy-faced Letterman comes off as a cranky old man, more likely to scream at people to get off his lawn than to try to put a smile on their faces.

Like many celebrities, David Letterman makes the mistake of thinking we remotely care about his political views. Although he claims Trump is an ignoramus, he trying to build a ‘dictatorship’:

That press conference that he held berating the news media? I mean, how do you build a dictatorship? First, you undermine the press: “The only truth you’re going to hear is from me.” And he hires the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Steve Bannon, to be his little buddy. Bannon looks like a guy who goes to lunch, gets drunk, and comes back to the office: “Steve, could you have just one drink?” “Fuck you.” How is a white supremacist the chief adviser to our president? Did anybody look that up? I don’t know. How’s this interview going? Do you think you’re talking to a normal person here? Don’t I seem like I’m full of something?

Source:  Vulture