David Letterman Just Gave Trump’s Kids Vital Advice To Save America From Daddy
By
Benjamin Locke
Politics | Published on August 17, 2017
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Donald Trump has lowered America’s image in the eyes of the world and his handling of the racist riot in Charlottesville shows how poorly prepared he is to be president, so he should be removed from office.
Talk show host David Letterman, now bearded and 70-years-old, told Howard Stern on his Sirus XM radio show, half jokingly, that
Trump’s family should trick him into believing he is still president while quietly removing him from office.
“The impeachment thing will take forever and may not end with a conviction,” said Letterman.
“You just get together some people, like his sons, Don Jr. and Don Jr. (said as a joke).
“Get those two guys together,” continued Letterman. “Probably Regis (Philbin), put him on the panel, and Gary Busey. And his daughter, the youngest one, Trumpina.”
“Just go to him and have him sign some papers and just move him down to Mar-a-Lago. They’ll build a little Oval Office for him down there. ‘No, you’re still president, Dad.'”
Letterman has
known and been making fun of Trump for years. Trump was regularly seen on
The Late Show before the late night host retired in May 2015.
“We didn’t take him seriously,” recalled Letterman. “He’d sit down, and I would just start making fun of him. He never had any retort.
“He was big and doughy,” added Letterman, “and you could beat him up. He seemed to have a good time, and the audience loved it, and that was Donald Trump.”
Letterman recalled a friend in public relations “told me he knew for a fact – this was three or four presidential campaigns ago – that Donald Trump would never run for president; he was just monkeying around for the publicity.”
Since his retirement, Letterman has had a lot to say about Trump, and none of it very friendly or nice. In an interview with the
New York Times a month before the 2016 election, Letterman called Trump “a big blowhard billionaire.”
“Right out of the box,” Letterman told the New York Times, “he goes after immigrants and how they’re drug dealers and they’re rapists. And everybody swallows hard. And they think, ‘Oh well, somebody will take him aside and say, Don, don’t do that.’ But it didn’t happen.”
Letterman has continued watching Trump’s presidency with growing alarm. “It’s time to go,” he told Stern.
“It was an experiment. We put an outsider in the office. Well, it hasn’t worked. Just resign.”
Letterman said he did admire Trump in his talk show days because “he could take a punch.”
“But I didn’t know that he was a jerk. It turns out, he’s a jerk.”
For a long time when people have asked Letterman about Trump, he has shrugged it off but now he is fed up.
“The thing I’m tired of is people (saying), ‘Oh, can you believe what he did? ‘Yeah, we can believe what he did.’ He’s been doing it for two years.”
What if Trump did resign?
“We’ll take it a step at a time,” responded Letterman, who returns to TV on Netflix in 2018 with a six-episode commitment for a talk show. “We’ll see what happens after that.”
“But for the time being,” concluded Letterman, “we’ve had enough.”
If Letterman were still doing his old talk show, he said he knows he would have to do Trump jokes, but he would do so reluctantly.
“I always say it’s like painting the Golden Gate Bridge,” said Letterman. “You’re never done. It goes on and on and on and once you start, you can’t quit.”
Tough talk from the funny man, but for all his jokes, it is clear he is serious. He thinks Trump is unfit to be president and he wants him gone as soon as possible
That puts Letterman in the majority of Americans today.