Judd Apatow: Trump Running for ‘Keep Me Famous,’ Not President

Following his appearance on last night’s Daily Show to promote his new book, Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, director Judd Apatow stopped by Bloomberg Politics’ With All Due Respect Tuesday afternoon and hosts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann wasted no time confronting him with the day’s biggest political story: Donald Trump.

Apatow, who actually wrote one of President Barack Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner jokes about Trump a few years back, expressed some healthy skepticism about the sincerity of the billionaire mogul’s 2016 campaign.

“Trump is a worthy target because he only runs for president to promote Celebrity Apprentice,” Apatow said of the NBC reality show. “He’s not running for president, he’s running for ‘keep me famous.'”

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Later, Apatow addressed the prospect of a 2016 election without the nightly voice of Jon Stewart on the air. “I wish that we could say that Jon Stewart changed a lot of what happened in politics,” he said, but that is just not the case. As evidence, he pointed out that The Daily Show host “couldn’t have been funnier” about George W. Bush, but that didn’t stop him from getting elected twice.

However, “socially,” Apatow said he thinks Stewart — along with South Park — has made a huge impact on a generation of young people who now believe “prejudice is ridiculous.”

Watch video below, via Bloomberg TV:

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