Jimmy Kimmel instructed Donald Trump’s supporters how the previous president actually feels about them on Tuesday.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host aired footage of Trump followers lining the streets exterior Mar-a-Lago to wave and cheer because the ex-president went {golfing}.
“Sure enough, on his way to the golf course he’d never let them join, the former president gave his fans a wave and two little thumbs-up,” Kimmel cracked:
Kimmel’s fast joke hits at a bigger difficulty: Those who’ve been within the former president’s orbit have identified that he’s not very keen on his personal supporters.
Olivia Troye, who was on Trump’s coronavirus job drive earlier than turning on him, mentioned Trump was pleased when pandemic security measures meant that he’d not “have to shake hands with these disgusting people.”
She made comparable feedback to The New York Times, clarifying that it wasn’t simply the fingers he didn’t like. It was the folks.
“Oh, he talked all the time about the people themselves being disgusting,” Troye told the newspaper final yr. “It was clear immediately that he wanted nothing to do with them.”
Radio host Howard Stern, who for years thought of Trump a good friend and had him on the present as a frequent visitor, made comparable feedback.
“The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most love him the most,” Stern said on his show final spring. “He wouldn’t even let them in a fucking hotel. He’d be disgusted by them.”
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